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No Reservations(2007)

PG
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 549 votes)

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

Directed by Scott Hicks - With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Lily Rabe, Bob Balaban, ...
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Overboard(1987)

PG
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 353 votes)

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.

Directed by Garry Marshall - With Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall, Mike Hagerty, ...
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Grand Jeté(2022)

1h 45min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.

Directed by Isabelle Stever

Because I Said So(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 280 votes)

In an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters try to keep their mom's good intentions under control.

Directed by Michael Lehmann - With Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, ...
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Drop Dead Gorgeous(1999)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 151 votes)

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

Directed by Michael Patrick Jann - With Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Brittany Murphy, ...

Julia(2008)

R
| 2h 18min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

Directed by Erick Zonca - With Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Bruno Bichir, Eugene Byrd, ...
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Vera Drake(2004)

2h 5min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 152 votes)

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Directed by Mike Leigh - With Imelda Staunton, Daniel Mays, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney, ...

Mostly Martha(2001)

1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck - With Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto, Maxime Foerste, Ulrich Thomsen, Diego Ribon, August Zirner, ...
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Motherhood(2009)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 56 votes)

Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day.

Directed by Katherine Dieckmann - With Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver, Anthony Edwards, Alice Drummond, Stephanie Szostak, Daisy Tahan, ...

Madea's Big Happy Family(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 63 votes)

When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.

Directed by Tyler Perry - With Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Bow Wow, David Mann, Cassi Davis, Tamela Mann, ...
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Bread and Tulips(2000)

1h 54min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 117 votes)

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her begin. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

Directed by Silvio Soldini - With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Felice Andreasi, ...
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The Story of the Weeping Camel(2003)

1h 31min | Documentary, Drama
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

Directed by Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni - With Guntbaatar Ikhbayar, Amgaabazar Gonson, Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar, Odgerel Ayusch, Janchiv Ayurzana, Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar, ...
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Rara(2016)

1h 28min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is hardly any different than it is for other families. But not everyone sees it that way – Sara's father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she feels rather overwhelmed: her first crush, a body in the midst of changes and to top it off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents.

Directed by Pepa San Martín - With Mariana Loyola, Coca Guazzini, Daniel Muñoz, Sigrid Alegría, Nicolás Vigneaux, Agustina Muñoz, ...

Krieg der Frauen(2006)

1h 30min | Comedy

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Directed by Katinka Feistl - With Gesine Cukrowski, Nicki von Tempelhoff, Thorsten Feller, Melika Foroutan, Torben Liebrecht, Birge Schade, ...

The Track(2016)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller

When suburban mother, Caren (Missy Yager), meets a teenager working the streets of Las Vegas, Barbie (Mariah Kirstie), the result is a mother daughter relationship that may save both their lives.

Quadro Branco(2011)

9min | Science Fiction
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In a world where society is controlled by a totalitarian regime and children are the tool of ideological formatting, Isa realizes that her child is different from the others and that this will bring consequences to her life.

Manasam(1997)

2h 17min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama

Rajalakshmi leads a lonely life. She adopts Solomon, who has lost his parents in a car accident. Solomon tries to help Rajalakshmi solve several problems that come her way.

Directed by C.S. Sudesh - With Rizabawa, Nedumudi Venu, Dileep (Gopalakrishnan P Pillai), Jagathy Sreekumar, Ponnamma Babu, M. S. Thripunithura, ...

Angélica(2016)

1h 37min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink her life.

Story of a Mother(2003)

7min | Fantasy, Animation
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the coldest night, Death takes the life of a child, his mother will do everything to get him back, even losing everything she has.

Digne(2022)

12min | Drama

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Directed by Mélanie Pilon - With Judith Baribeau

Pregnant(2021)

12min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

"Pregnant" is a window into a woman's existence as she lives her internal life ever so delicately as her external life. Becoming a mother for the second time, she prepares for the unknown.

my own kind(2019)

15min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Yai Nin(2020)

13min | Documentary

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.