Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "lesbian-mother"

1. The Chi (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

Stars: Jason Mitchell, Jacob Latimore, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Alex R. Hibbert

Votes: 7,879

2. Under the Dome (2013–2015)

TV-14 | 1,668 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An invisible and mysterious force field descends upon the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, USA, trapping residents inside, cut off from the rest of civilization. The trapped townspeople must discover the secrets and purpose of the "dome" or "sphere" and its origins, while coming to learn more than they ever knew about each other and animals too.

Stars: Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Alexander Koch, Colin Ford

Votes: 112,568

3. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

After their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver

Votes: 89,286 | Gross: $34.29M

4. The Fosters (2013–2018)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

Teenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children.

Stars: Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Hayden Byerly, David Lambert

Votes: 30,726

5. The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

15 year old Amy ends up pregnant after one night at band camp, throwing her whole life upside down. It doesn't help that she's now going to school with that guy.

Stars: Shailene Woodley, Molly Ringwald, India Eisley, Mark Derwin

Votes: 20,920

6. Big Mouth (2017–2024)

TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance

Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty.

Stars: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas

Votes: 89,446

7. The L Word (I) (2004– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Romance

Follows the lives and loves of a small, close-knit group of lesbian women living in Los Angeles as well as the friends and family members that either support or loathe them.

Stars: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 28,769

8. Manhattan (1979)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy

Votes: 147,317 | Gross: $45.70M

9. We Are Who We Are (2020)

TV-MA | 462 min | Drama

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga

Votes: 9,752

10. Queer as Folk (2000–2005)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Romance

Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA.

Stars: Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Michelle Clunie

Votes: 22,461

11. Elena Undone (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Fate brings two diversely different women together, and sets them on a collision course that will shatter their preconceived notions about love, life and the power of one's soul.

Director: Nicole Conn | Stars: Necar Zadegan, Thunderbird Dinwiddie, Gary Weeks, Sam Harris

Votes: 6,628

12. To the Bone (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 107 min | Drama

A young woman, dealing with anorexia, meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

Director: Marti Noxon | Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Lily Collins, Dana L. Wilson, Ziah Colon

Votes: 54,867

13. Kicking & Screaming (2005)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon realizes that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating.

Director: Jesse Dylan | Stars: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Josh Hutcherson, Mike Ditka

Votes: 40,787 | Gross: $52.84M

14. Khufiya (2023)

TV-MA | 157 min | Action, Biography, Crime

Krishna Mehra is an operative at Indian spy agency known as R&AW. She is assigned to track down the mole selling India's defense secrets, while all along grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover.

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Tabu, Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi, Azmeri Haque Badhon

Votes: 6,906

15. Eye for an Eye (1996)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Olivia Burnette

Votes: 18,937 | Gross: $26.79M

16. Sisters (1991–1996)

60 min | Drama

Follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.

Stars: Swoosie Kurtz, Patricia Kalember, Sela Ward, Elizabeth Hoffman

Votes: 2,299

17. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska

Votes: 134,456 | Gross: $20.81M

18. Together (2000)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1975, the dynamics of a Swedish commune begin to change upon the arrival of a beaten wife and her two kids.

Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson, Sam Kessel

Votes: 24,348 | Gross: $1.07M

19. Young Jedi Adventures (2023– )

TV-Y | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Kai, Lys and Nubs are apprentices sent by Master Yoda to train at the Jedi temple on the planet Tenoo under the tutelage of Master Zia. Together, they embark on adventures aboard the ship piloted by the skilled Nash and her droid RJ-83.

Stars: Juliet Donenfeld, Dee Bradley Baker, Jamaal Avery Jr., Jonathan Lipow

Votes: 1,003

20. Grandma (2015)

R | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.

Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer

Votes: 16,922 | Gross: $6.98M

21. Concussion (2013)

R | 96 min | Drama

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Ben Shenkman

Votes: 5,823 | Gross: $0.04M

22. Elisa & Marcela (2019)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1901, Elisa Sanchez Loriga took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas, Tamar Novas

Votes: 5,841

23. Just Before I Go (2014)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

On the verge of giving up on life, a guy travels to his hometown to make amends.

Director: Courteney Cox | Stars: Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt, Kate Walsh

Votes: 19,486 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Between the Temples (2024)

R | 111 min | Comedy

A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Director: Nathan Silver | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron

Votes: 146

25. So My Grandma's a Lesbian! (2019)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy

A promising young lawyer sees her plans to wed into an important and ultraconservative family in danger when her grandma decides to marry her girl friend.

Director: Ángeles Reiné | Stars: Rosa Maria Sardà, Verónica Forqué, Ingrid García Jonsson, David Verdaguer

Votes: 1,378

26. Running with Scissors (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

A teenage boy comes of age in the 1970's, sent by his neurotic, pretentious mother to live with a jolly, vulgar psychiatrist and his eccentric extended family.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow

Votes: 23,169 | Gross: $6.75M

27. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Trio of stories about lesbian couples in three different decades.

Directors: Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Perkins

Votes: 7,600

28. A Perfect Ending (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Rebecca has a very unusual secret, one that not even her best friends know about. The last person on earth she expects to reveal it to is a high priced escort named Paris.

Director: Nicole Conn | Stars: Barbara Niven, Bryan Mordechai Jackson, Jessica Clark, John Heard

Votes: 4,817

29. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary

Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.

Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Kirby Dick, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Atom Egoyan

Votes: 28,627 | Gross: $0.30M

30. Happy Endings (2005)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself.

Director: Don Roos | Stars: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jesse Bradford

Votes: 9,413 | Gross: $1.31M

31. Adam (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Director: Max Mayer | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving

Votes: 35,778 | Gross: $2.28M

32. The Tree of Blood (2018)

TV-MA | 130 min | Drama

Rebeca and Marc make a travel to discover their mutual family pasts in Rebeca's grandparents house.

Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Úrsula Corberó, Patricia López Arnaiz, Joaquín Furriel

Votes: 3,435

33. Fun Size (2012)

PG-13 | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Wren's Halloween plans go awry when she's made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he's missing.

Director: Josh Schwartz | Stars: Victoria Justice, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Ana Gasteyer

Votes: 15,141 | Gross: $9.40M

34. Flesh (1968)

R | 89 min | Drama

A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.

Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling

Votes: 2,601

35. Saint-Narcisse (2020)

Unrated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a young man who thought his mother was dead discovers that she may still be alive, he goes on a quest to find her. His journey takes him to a remote cabin in the woods where his mother lives in exile with a mysterious young woman.

Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Félix-Antoine Duval, Tania Kontoyanni, Alexandra Petrachuk, Angèle Coutu

Votes: 978

36. 101 Reykjavík (2000)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir

Votes: 9,939 | Gross: $0.01M

37. The Sum of Us (1994)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

Directors: Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling | Stars: Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson, Deborah Kennedy

Votes: 5,827 | Gross: $2.51M

38. Les Invisibles (2012)

115 min | Documentary, Romance

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Yann, Pierre, Bernard Romieu, Jacques

Votes: 677

39. The Real L Word (2010–2012)

TV-MA | Reality-TV

A nine episode one-hour series that follows a group of real-life Los Angeles lesbians as they go about their daily lives, at work and play.

Stars: Whitney Mixter, Kacy Boccumini, Kelsey Grace Chavarria, Alyssa Morgan

Votes: 1,230

40. Two of Us (2019)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance

Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other's apartments.

Director: Filippo Meneghetti | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain

Votes: 3,729

41. An Unexpected Love (2003 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama

An unhappily married housewife and mother of two children (Leslie Hope) seperates from her husband and gets a new job where she developes a mutual attraction to her female boss (Wendy Crewson).

Director: Lee Rose | Stars: Leslie Hope, Wendy Crewson, D.W. Moffett, Alison Pill

Votes: 943

42. Chinese Puzzle (2013)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well.

Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile de France, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 15,288 | Gross: $0.34M

43. Heat (1972)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Spoof of the casual sexual adventures of a one-time child actor in Hollywood. It also involves a bratty on-again, off-again lesbian character.

Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman, Pat Ast

Votes: 1,891

44. Two Mothers (2013)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama

Katja and Isabella are happily married and feel the time is right to have a child. As the weeks and months pass by, it becomes clear that the process will be far more fraught than either were prepared for.

Director: Anne Zohra Berrached | Stars: Karina Plachetka, Sabine Wolf, Florian Weber, Maarten Van Santen

Votes: 615

45. Two and One (2022)

115 min | Drama

A gay couple realizes they aren't sexually compatible, so they look for a third man. But when betrayal and jealousy sneak in, their relationship shatters into pieces.

Director: Ivan Andrew Payawal | Stars: Miggy Jimenez, Cedrick Juan, Paolo Pangilinan, Raquel Monteza

Votes: 252

46. Beware My Brethren (1972)

R | 92 min | Horror

A religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to murder and chaos.

Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Ann Todd, Patrick Magee, Tony Beckley, Madeleine Hinde

Votes: 658

47. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch

Votes: 6,997 | Gross: $0.93M

48. A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy (2020)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary

An SUV with a female couple and their six adopted children plunge into the Pacific Ocean, leaving behind more questions than answers.

Votes: 138

49. Lianna (1983)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries, Jo Henderson

Votes: 1,824 | Gross: $1.50M

50. Toppuresu (2008)

108 min | Comedy, Drama

The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to ... See full summary »

Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Mina Shimizu, Erika Okuda, Aya Ohmasa, Akifumi Uchida

Votes: 108