Topic: Maternity

Direction David E. Kelley · Jean-Marc Vallée · Andrea Arnold

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Nicole Kidman · Shailene Woodley · Alexander Skarsgård

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 2 Seasons. 14 Episodes. Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, the darkly comedic murder mystery centers on three mothers (Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman...

Direction Lenny Abrahamson

Cast Brie Larson · Jacob Tremblay · Joan Allen · William H. Macy

Plot Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Mia Farrow · John Cassavetes · Ruth Gordon · Ralph Bellamy

Plot Actor Guy Woodhouse and his wife Rosemary move into a new apartment. In no time they befriend their neighbours, the aging Castevets. Rosemary soon becomes pregnant. But when her obstetrician...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Plot A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and...

Direction Claire Simon

Plot At first observational and later hugely personal, Claire Simon’s film is an example of the sheer power of documentary cinema. She explores a gynaecological clinic in Paris to ascertain what...

Direction Xavier Dolan

Cast Anne Dorval · Antoine-Olivier Pilon · Suzanne Clément · Alexandre Goyette

Plot A widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their impetuous and...

Direction Molly Smith Metzler · John Wells · Helen Shaver · Nzingha Stewart

Cast Margaret Qualley · Andie MacDowell · Billy Burke · Nick Robinson

Plot 10 episodes. A single mother who turns to housekeeping to barely make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy.

Direction Audrey Diwan

Cast Anamaria Vartolomei · Sandrine Bonnaire · Luàna Bajrami · Pio Marmai

Plot France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape...

Direction Heidi Hassan · Patricia Pérez Fernández

Cast Heidi Hassan · Patricia Pérez Fernández

Plot Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both went to the film academy. As children of the 1970s, they were brought up with the communist ideals...

Direction Todd Haynes

Cast Kate Winslet · Evan Rachel Wood · Guy Pearce · Melissa Leo

Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

Direction Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Cast Marta Nieto · Blanca Apilánez · Álvaro Balas · Miriam Correa

Plot While at home in her apartment with her mother (Blanca Apilánez) in Spain, Marta (Marta Nieto) gets a phone call from her six-year-old son Iván (Álvaro Balas), who's on holiday...

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Kim Hye-ja · Won Bin · Jin Goo · Yoon Je-Moon

Plot Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man. In the aftermath of a terrible...

Direction Cristian Mungiu

Cast Anamaria Marinca · Vlad Ivanov · Laura Vasiliu · Alexandru Potocean

Plot Romania, during the final days of Communism. Otilia and Gabita are students; they share a room in a hall of residence. Gabita is pregnant. The girls arrange to meet a...

Direction Anna Muylaert

Cast Regina Casé · Camila Márdila · Karine Teles · Lourenço Mutarelli

Plot Having left her daughter, Jessica, to be raised by relatives in the north of Brazil, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo. When Jessica arrives for a visit...

Direction Liliana Torres

Cast Maria Rodríguez Soto · Enric Auquer · Ruth Llopis · Anna Alarcón

Plot Lola enjoys a happy life with her partner, Bruno, until an unexpected pregnancy revolutionizes all her plans. Although Lola has always been clear that being a mother is not for...

Direction Matías Bize

Cast Antonia Zegers · Néstor Cantillana · Catalina Saavedra · Yair Juri

Plot An infant disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.

Direction Lynne Ramsay

Cast Tilda Swinton · Ezra Miller · John C. Reilly · Jasper Newell

Plot Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he...

Direction Pedro Almodóvar

Cast Cecilia Roth · Marisa Paredes · Penélope Cruz · Candela Peña

Plot A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran...

Direction Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Cast Laia Costa · Susi Sánchez · Ramón Barea · Mikel Bustamante

Plot Amalia, who has just become a mother, decides to return for guidance after her partner is temporarily away, to her parents' house along the Basque coast.

Direction Andrea Arnold

Cast Natalie Press · Danny Dyer · Jodie Mitchell · Molly Griffiths

Plot Young Zoe already has four little children. Their father has disappeared and Zoe raises them in disgraceful poverty. When an ex-boyfriend surprisingly returns to the town, Zoe, who has not...