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1. Oedipus Complex (2015)
10 min | Short
Director: Lok Kwan Woo | Stars: Diego Delpiano, Gavin Hagey, Alessandro Delpiano, Z Zoccolante
Votes: 5
2. Mountains May Depart (2015)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong
Votes: 6,397 | Gross: $0.08M
3. Rør mig (2016)
23 min | Short, Drama
Louis is unable to father a child and his wife Sascha has been inseminated artificially. As she gives birth to Daniel, Louis is hit with an unbearable sadness and detachment that only grows... See full summary »
Director: Isabel Bilde | Stars: Majken Blaess Møgelbjerg, Thomas Biehl, Odette A.S. Bilde, Jeppe-Christian Winther
Votes: 23
4. My Son (2006)
79 min | Drama
Tragedy strikes a young boy and his over-protective mother.
Director: Martial Fougeron | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Victor Sévaux, Olivier Gourmet, Marie Kremer
Votes: 835
5. Where's Poppa? (1970)
R | 82 min | Comedy
When an attorney meets the girl of his dreams, he fears that his batty mother will scare her off, so he schemes to eliminate the senile old woman.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere
Votes: 2,338 | Gross: $1.10M
6. Child's Pose (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia
Votes: 8,856 | Gross: $0.09M
7. The Idol (1966)
109 min | Drama
Arrogant young art student Marco is friendly with medical student Timothy and his girlfriend Sarah. Timothy is dominated by his beautiful mother Carol, who is divorcing her husband. Marco ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Michael Parks, John Leyton, Jennifer Hilary
Votes: 178
8. Shock (1977)
R | 93 min | Horror
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.
Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov
Votes: 4,680
9. The Mother (2016)
89 min | Drama
Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Morais | Stars: Laia Marull, Nieve de Medina, María Albiñana, Jorge Motos
Votes: 118
10. Le baiser sous la cloche (1998 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Director: Emmanuel Gust | Stars: Gaspard Génard Claus, Ángela Molina, Pierre Forest, Bernard Alane
Votes: 28
11. I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, ... See full summary »
Directors: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven
Votes: 581 | Gross: $0.01M
12. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,425
13. Mater amatísima (1980)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Clara, an attractive unmarried woman, and her autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life, provide an extreme dissection of the mother-child bond in an uneasily honest way.
Director: J.A. Salgot | Stars: Victoria Abril, Julito de la Cruz, Jaume Sorribas, Consol Tura
Votes: 110
14. Taiteilija isänsä tahdosta (2014)
26 min | Short, Drama
Matias is a young artist. Following his father's advice, he tries to fight against the rat race.
Director: Jarno Harju | Stars: Max Ovaska, Maija Rissanen, Hennariikka Laaksola, Matti Onnismaa
Votes: 19
15. Grass Labyrinth (1979)
40 min | Short, Fantasy, Romance
A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka, Yasumi Nakasuji
Votes: 745
16. Eros and Psyche (1998)
94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Interpretation of the poem Eros Ja Psykhe by Eeva-Liisa Mannerin, which in turn is an allegory of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche.
Director: Timo Linnasalo | Stars: Antti Reini, Heli Takala, Markku Blomqvist, Tuija Vuolle
Votes: 78
17. Shameless (2010)
98 min | Drama
The summer of 1951 a couple get their first and only child. A boy. Or is it? Ouside the birds stop singing, and there's a solar eclipse. The parents deny an operation which could make Adrian a whole human being.
Director: Petter Næss | Stars: Marcus Mathias Aarnseth, Andrea Pharo Ronde, Maria Bonnevie, Eindride Eidsvold
Votes: 294
18. Tvilling (2003)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Lars' life is dedicated to his disabled mother and his job at a petrol station. The only light in his life is Julie, who lives in his apartment building and often drops by his petrol ... See full summary »
Director: Fabian Wullenweber | Stars: Janus Nabil Bakrawi, Trine Dyrholm, Karen-Lise Mynster, Asger Reher
Votes: 136
19. Før stormen (2011)
20 min | Short
15-year-old Sigurd lives with his young mother Marianne in a seedy apartment in Copenhagen. She just met Peter, who wants to make a good impression on Sigurd. But Sigurd is worried about his mother and is skeptical of Peter.
Director: Andreas Thaulow | Stars: Anna Fabricius, Oskar Mogensen, Paw Terndrup, Adam Martina Fisker
Votes: 7
20. Kaleidoscope (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Thriller
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
Director: Rupert Jones | Stars: Toby Jones, Anne Reid, Sinead Matthews, Deborah Findlay
Votes: 1,148
21. The Transparent (2015)
111 min | Drama, Thriller
Although Zehra was pregnant with her lover Onur when she was only 18, she left him. Nowadays, she lives with her son Anil and husband Görkem in a coastal town close to the city. One day she... See full summary »
Director: Hakan Yilmaz | Stars: Seyrek Simge, Umut Özkan, Okan Yilmaz, Esra Caglayan
Votes: 24
22. Ein Leben auf Probe (2010)
Sci-Fi
Director: David Emmenlauer | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Janin Ullmann, Eva Kruijssen, Stephen Sikder
Votes: 24
23. Glass Lips (2007)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Joanna Litwin, Grzegorz Przybyl, Patryk Czajka, Ryszarda Celinska
Votes: 245
24. The Killing Kind (1973)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders
Votes: 1,264
25. Oedipus (2004)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short
A short film, done in epic style, on the story of Oedipus.
Director: Jason Wishnow | Stars: Dick Rodstein, J. David Brimmer, Billy Dee Williams, Stephanie Fredricks
Votes: 132
26. Naakt (2006)
TV-MA | 7 min | Short, Drama
Eight-year-old Erik's mother takes him to the sauna for the first time in his life. There, he has to disrobe and sees lots of naked men and women around him. He feels very uncomfortable at first but then he seems to enjoy it.
Directors: Diederik Ebbinge, Albert Jan van Rees | Stars: Sem Roeters, Marike van Weelden, Frederieke Pijl, Roosmarijn Luyten
Votes: 214
27. Medousa (1998)
87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange ... See full summary »
Director: George Lazopoulos | Stars: Eleni Filini, Thanos Amorginos, Vana Rambota, Haris Mihalogiannakis
Votes: 217
28. Hardkor Disko (2014)
85 min | Drama
Upon arriving at Warsaw, Marcin, a young mysterious stranger from afar, enters the lives of hedonistic Ola and her liberal well-off parents. He's got a secret plan and just waits for a convenient moment to make it happen.
Director: Krzysztof Skonieczny | Stars: Marcin Kowalczyk, Jasmina Polak, Agnieszka Wosinska, Janusz Chabior
Votes: 678
29. Les Nageuses (2015)
14 min | Short, Drama
Bruno is a 24-year-old young boy who lives in a reclusive relationship with his mother. Forced by his mother to work as a cleaning man in a pool, where he meets a young girl who awakens his repressed desires.
Director: Joachim Bon | Stars: Aymeric Trionfo, Alexandra Oppo, Stéphanie Lowette
Votes: 10
30. Glasgow (2011)
30 min | Short, Drama, Family
Damian, a teenage boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for the Celtic Glasgow F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has ... See full summary »
Director: Piotr Subbotko | Stars: Rafal Garnecki, Sandra Korzeniak, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Aneta Thuong-Majchrzak
Votes: 51
31. Frontalwatte (2011)
78 min | Drama
Frontalwatte is like running against a wall and falling softly. Teenagers, Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a world without consequences. They pass the time with home visits, jaw... See full summary »
Director: Jakob Lass | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Gabi Herz, Paula Schramm, Simon Finkas
Votes: 123
32. Exploding Oedipus (2001)
Not Rated | 75 min
Following the heart attack of his father, Hilbert decides to reevaluate his life and does so to the accompaniment of super 8 films of his childhood.
Director: Marc Lafia | Stars: Andrew Ableson, George Alvarez, Charlotte Chatton, James Anthony Cotton
Votes: 30
33. Les rideaux rouges (2011)
34 min | Short, Drama
An Oedipus without a complex: Jose, a young man and an orphan, and Pablo, a boy of 13, flee the city, under threat and condemned to drift. Jose, who has to solve the mystery of his identity... See full summary »
Director: Alain Deymier | Stars: Damián Ramonda, Ana Celentano
34. Kula (2016)
27 min | Short, Action, Comedy
It is the crisscrossing of the discrete quality of darkness of disconnected, hypersensitive urban population that illuminates the passage of the film.
Director: Indranil Kashyap | Stars: Rupa Borgaonkar, Uday Chandra, Devesh Chobe, Indranil Kashyap
Votes: 9
35. Kingdom of the Vampire (2007 Video)
82 min | Horror
In 1991, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (THE DEAD NEXT DOOR) took his first leap into non-traditional filmmaking with the video-lensed KINGDOM OF THE VAMPIRE, a moody drama inspired by ... See full summary »
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Brett Kelly, Anastasia Kimmett, Gabrielle Mackenzie, Chip Hair
Votes: 150
36. Oedipus (2009)
23 min | Short, Crime, Mystery
The film is based on the tragedy of Sophocles, of course changing many elements with the aesthetics being influenced by noir and comic films.
Director: Ioakim Mylonas | Stars: Giannis Stankoglou, Katerina Didaskalou, Stella Fyrogeni, Dimitris Spyrou
Votes: 20
37. Days of Being Wild (1990)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
Votes: 25,521 | Gross: $0.14M
38. The Living and the Dead (2006)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy, Sarah Ball
Votes: 2,458
39. Oedipus (2005)
6 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Rong | Stars: Peter Clifford, Nathan Filer, Rebecca Smart
Votes: 13
40. Oedipe - [N+1] (2003)
26 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a nightmarish future, the wealthy elite maintain The Circle, a stratum of society that can use technology for regeneration, although it's unclear if a person is regenerated into reality ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Rognard | Stars: Jalil Lespert, Nicole Jamet, Catherine Buquen, Dimitri Storoge
Votes: 109
41. La India (1976)
102 min | Drama
A concerned Mexican boy shoots his mom and her lover while having sex, after which he is tormented by erotic nightmares. And then he becomes a horse and bull driver.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Isela Vega, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Mario Almada, Jaime Moreno
Votes: 53
42. Muerte infernal (1992)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A rare doll, appears in Lorenzo and his mother lives. From that moment starts a series of crimes. Lorenzo looks like the obvious criminal. The rare doll really comes a live or just was in Lorenzo's mind?
Director: Roberto Guinar | Stars: Erika Carlsson, Benny Corral, Roger Cudney, Abel Avalos
Votes: 27
43. A Mother (2015)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
Marie lives with her son, Guillaume, a deficient teenager, according to psychologists.The boy, expelled from high school, cannot find a steady job. Marie's relationship with her son has reached a dead end.
Director: Christine Carrière | Stars: Mathilde Seigner, Kacey Mottet Klein, Pierfrancesco Favino, Salomé Dewaels
Votes: 81
44. Le cri du coeur (1974)
97 min | Drama
Director: Claude Lallemand | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Delphine Seyrig, Eric Damain
Votes: 45
45. Uvidet Parizh i umeret (1993)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A Russian stage mother will let nothing stand in the way of her son's promising career as a concert pianist.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Tatyana Vasileva, Dmitriy Malikov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Steklov
Votes: 73
46. Dark, Almost Night (2019)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Reporter Alicja Tabor returns to Walbrzych, the city of her childhood. There she will go back to all her hardcore family secret dramas, and start investigating a sinister case related to the disappearance of children.
Director: Borys Lankosz | Stars: Magdalena Cielecka, Rafal Mackowiak, Modest Rucinski, Jerzy Trela
Votes: 706
47. A Greek Type of Problem (2012)
93 min | Comedy
The gods don't like humans forcing the hand of fate. When Jo turns up in Greece with her sons even though she knows that the festival she founded has been cancelled because of the recession... See full summary »
Director: Brigitte Roüan | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Éric Caravaca, Patrick Mille, Michaël Abiteboul
Votes: 199
48. Cuck (2019)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a frustrated loner gains popularity as an Alt-Right vlogger, the online echo chamber turns his fears into a deadly rage.
Director: Rob Lambert | Stars: Zachary Ray Sherman, Sally Kirkland, Timothy V. Murphy, Monique Parent
Votes: 13,579
49. Mother (2019)
128 min | Drama, Thriller
Ten years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Stars: Marta Nieto, Jules Porier, Alex Brendemühl, Anne Consigny
Votes: 2,345
50. Le chien (2007)
80 min | Drama
Director: Christian Monnier | Stars: Florian Frin, Marie Le Cam, Jean-Marc Lebars, Régis Ivanov
Votes: 56
51. Sonny (2002)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama
An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.
Director: Nicolas Cage | Stars: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 4,576 | Gross: $0.02M
52. New Wave (2008 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Eric, a lonely young college student, meets Romain, a student who has been dispelled. Far from the family farm, Eric discovers the new wave musical movement with the help of Romain, and decides to edit a video clip for a song by Romain.
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Valentin Ducommun, Victor Chambon, Solenn Jarniou
Votes: 173
53.
Weeds (2005–2012)
Episode:
Yes I Can
(2008)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Nancy speaks to her boss Esteban when Guillermo denies her cut of incoming pot. Meanwhile, Celia discovers cheap pharmaceuticals and Silas' relationship with Lisa deepens. Andy and Doug work on their human smuggling operation.
Director: Scott Ellis | Stars: Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould
Votes: 672
54.
Weeds (2005–2012)
Episode:
Little Boats
(2008)
TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Nancy and Esteban have scheduling problems. Celia has become addicted. Nancy catches Silas and Lisa. Andy catches Shane masturbating with photos of Nancy. Cue Nancy giving the boys an uncomfortable lecture. Mexicans celebrate "El Andy".
Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould
Votes: 651
55. The Story of Mother (1973)
98 min | Drama
A young boy witnesses his mother's cheating ways and, after the death of his sick father, grows to despise her. When he's adopted by another family, the road to reconciliation proves achingly difficult.
Director: Tsun-Shou Sung | Stars: Hsiang Li, Han Chin, Maria Yi, Tung An
Votes: 15
56. Martha (II) (2010)
25 min | Short, Drama, Family
Martha is a single mother raising her son, Thomas, on her own. She has a few questions about what happened to her. She is pregnant but doesn't understand how this happened.
Director: Raphael Dethier | Stars: Carine Bouquillon, Jérémie Petrus, Sandrine Blancke, Fabien Dehasseler
Votes: 26
57. Especially on Sunday (1991)
R | 90 min | Drama
A collection of tales set on the Adriatic coast.
Directors: Francesco Barilli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Ornella Muti, Bruno Ganz, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Votes: 350 | Gross: $0.44M
58. La battue (2007)
16 min | Short
Director: Xavier Ournac | Stars: Marc Chauvin, Aude Crouzatier, Brice Ournac
59. Naked Blood (1996)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe
Votes: 2,264
60. Passage to Buddha (1993)
136 min | Drama
Seon-jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: ... See full summary »
Director: Jang Sun-woo | Stars: Mi-kyeong Won, Oh Tae-kyung, Kim Hye-seon, Hae-young Lee
Votes: 153
61. Sister (2012)
Unrated | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Director: Ursula Meier | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson
Votes: 7,209
62. Respiro (2002)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino
Votes: 4,846 | Gross: $1.07M
63. Mother (2020)
126 min | Drama, Thriller
Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision.
Director: Tatsushi Ômori | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Sadao Abe, Halo Asada, Sho Gunji
Votes: 3,395
64. On the Old Roman Road (2001)
76 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the ... See full summary »
Director: Don Askarian | Stars: Haykaz Aroyan, Don Askarian, Ohan Askaryan, Satenik Avakian
Votes: 54
65. Nel labirinto del sesso (Psichidion) (1969)
X | 95 min | Drama
Take a guided trip with Emilio Servadio on a journey of sexual excess including a insatiable nymphomaniac, a sex killer, a lesbian and fetishists of every type.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Orchidea De Santis, Franco Ressel, Susy Andersen, Maria Pia Conte
Votes: 108
66. Mikey (1992)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A seemingly sweet and innocent little boy causes murder and mayhem in his new neighborhood and falls for the teenage girl next door.
Director: Dennis Dimster | Stars: Brian Bonsall, Josie Bissett, Ashley Laurence, Mimi Craven
Votes: 3,288
67. Som en Zorro (2012)
29 min | Short, Drama
The story is that of Zorro and his best friend Kevin. Zorro, his mother Meta and his older sister Zavanna lives in a messy, run down apartment. Zorro's father is dead and his mother is an ... See full summary »
Director: Linda-Maria Birbeck | Stars: Amanda Davin, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Annika Hallin, Osvald Harryson
Votes: 37
68. Von glücklichen Schafen (2015)
96 min | Drama
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Director: Kadir Sözen | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Marlene Metternich, Jascha Baum, Vedat Erincin
Votes: 213
69. Ciao bambino (2011)
20 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Nadine takes her son, Baptiste, to the sea. During a weekend, they will try to talk together.
Director: Thibaut Wohlfahrt | Stars: Tom Boccara, Sophie Museur, Laura Den Hondt, Daniel Decot
Votes: 11
70.
Karelasyon (2015– )
Episode:
Mama's Boy
(2015)
TV-14 | Drama, Romance
Former night club dancer Abby married Marcus in the hopes of finding a better life. But her new husband's extreme attachment to his own mother threatens to their wreck their starting marriage.
Director: Adolfo Alix Jr. | Stars: Carla Abellana, Louise Delos Reyes, Kristoffer Martin, Jaclyn Jose
71. The Sea in Your Eyes (2007)
27 min | Short, Drama
This is the story of a mother-son relationship damaged by the loss of the father figure. A film about desire, frustration, taboo and hypocrisy.
Director: Aaron Salles Torres | Stars: Kathleen Lawlor, Brekk Bailey, Brandon Anthony, Chad Meyer
Votes: 116
72. Up, Down and Sideways (1992)
108 min | Comedy
A parody of the life in Athens of the 90ies where a widow and her son get entangled in crazy situations.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Panos Mihalopoulos, Eleni Gerasimidou
Votes: 249
73. Noble Savage (2018)
TV-MA | 94 min | Drama
Almost everything in Eli's life, a 15 years old boy with an eating disorder, is on the brink of catastrophe. He lives in a seedy neighborhood with his mother Sima and her father Yefet, two ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Carmel | Stars: Neveh Tzur, Liat Ekta, Yaakov Zada-Daniel, Alon Aboutboul
Votes: 135
74. Vilko dantu karoliai (1997)
92 min | Biography, Drama
A wolf's-teeth necklace brings back childhood memories to a painter whose family was sent to Siberia.
Director: Algimantas Puipa | Stars: Vidas Petkevicius, Grazina Baikstyte, Monika Biciunaite, Remigijus Bilinskas
Votes: 150
75. Twice a Woman (2010)
94 min | Drama
The story of Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son and start a new life under a fresh identity.
Director: François Delisle | Stars: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Marie Brassard, Isabelle Quintin
Votes: 112
76. Bastaard (2019)
104 min | Thriller
Teenage Daan struggles after his brother's death, with his home bound mother and detached father. Meeting a homeless man offers his mother a chance to heal.
Director: Mathieu Mortelmans | Stars: Spencer Bogaert, Tine Reymer, Bjarne Devolder, Koen De Bouw
Votes: 336
77. Coda (2003)
10 min | Drama, Short
An act of violence in the shower room of a boy's prep school gets out of hand and all of the participants are traumatized.
Directors: Kitao Sakurai, Andrew Spirk | Stars: Will Bostwick, Ben Spiro, Jonathan Lucas, George Chimples
Votes: 38
78. Cleft Lip (2018)
84 min | Drama
What happens when fertility becomes a commodity in a fractured society? Oedipus reborn. Sophocles' classic of classics adapted for the 21st Century.
Director: Erik Knudsen | Stars: Reece Douglas, Miranda Benjamin, Keith French, Jeannie Harris
Votes: 81
79. It's the Heart That Dies Last (2017)
103 min | Drama
Julien publishes an autobiography focusing on his childhood memories and his odd relationship with his long-estranged mother. His mother, who is unaware of the book's content, tries to reconnect with him and redeem the lost time.
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault | Stars: Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault, Sophie Lorain, Paul Doucet
Votes: 260
80. Transference (II) (2015)
20 min | Short, Thriller
A young psychoanalyst receives a new patient who happens to be more than she bargained for...
Director: Michael Nakache | Stars: Justine Wachsberger, Charlie Bewley, Charles Hittinger, Allison Moore
Votes: 12
81. False Movement (2014)
85 min | Drama
Victor (15) is dragged by his mother from Paris to Quebec City, to build a new life for themselves, following the death of his father. While skipping class one afternoon, he sees another student on the ledge.
Director: Christophe Cousin | Stars: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Antoine L'Écuyer, Aure Atika, Anne-Marie Cadieux
Votes: 64
82. The Room (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child.
Director: Christian Volckman | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Joshua Wilson, John Flanders
Votes: 23,673
83. Las figuras de arena (1970)
115 min | Drama
A young boy falls in love with a young woman, not knowing that she is a prostitute.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Elsa Aguirre, David Reynoso, Ofelia Medina, Valentín Trujillo
Votes: 19
84. Maxhumain (1999)
7 min | Short
A suicidal man recalls life with his mother as a boy.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Stéphan Brodzky, Simon Gérard, Sandrine Laroche, Stéphane Brodzki
Votes: 185
85. Low Tide (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy's solitude is both a source of ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Daniel Blanchard, Melissa McKinney, Vernon Wilbanks, Colby Trichell
Votes: 671
86. Second Chance (1976)
PG | 105 min | Drama
Catherine has just served a prison sentence for complicity in the murder of her boss who raped her. There she gives birth to a son, Simon. After her release she wants to make up for the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner, Francis Huster
Votes: 291
87. The Grifters (1990)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Votes: 30,572 | Gross: $13.45M
88. Different Kinds of Rain (2017)
91 min | Drama
A family struggles with the teenager son who suffers from Hikikomori phenomenon. Suddenly, he closes the door and locks himself in, shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister
Director: Isabel Prahl | Stars: Bjarne Mädel, Bibiana Beglau, Emma Bading, Béla Gabor Lenz
Votes: 431
89. Goliath96 (2018)
109 min | Drama
In her desperate longing for sympathy and understanding, a single mother tries to get back in touch with her grown-up son, who locked himself up in his room for two years. She doesn't sense that she runs the risk of loosing him forever.
Director: Marcus Richardt | Stars: Katja Riemann, Nils Rovira-Munoz, David Wurawa, Elisa Schlott
Votes: 169
90. Verdacht (2013)
15 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Mother accidentally watches a young man masturbating in the yard looking into the windows of neighbors, she creeps in a suspicion that this is her son.
Director: Nicolai Dimitri Zeitler | Stars: Lilly Forgách, Andreas Unruh, Susanna Haneder
91. Olga (II) (2017)
20 min | Short, Drama
Kicked out roughly by her boyfriend, Olga, exhausted, takes shelter in the gritty flat of her son and his girlfriend, she finds herself trapped in her own torpor, infected by the intimacy of the young couple.
Director: Maxime Bruneel | Stars: Anne Loiret, Johan Libéreau, Anaïs Thomas
Votes: 23
92. Bon enfant (2020)
21 min | Short, Drama
Esteban has left home for Spain, to study. He returns to see his parents in Paris for holidays. Between walks and Sunday lunches, Anne and Pascal do their best to adapt to their son's new situation.
Director: Thibaud Renzi | Stars: Anne Loiret, Tom Boyaval, Yves Buchin, Luca Malinowski
93. Louder Than Bombs (2015)
R | 109 min | Drama
The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Devin Druid
Votes: 14,205 | Gross: $0.16M
94. Nue propriété (2006)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
A divorced mother of two boys reaching adulthood decides to sell their house, find love and get on with her life away from her husband and sons; a decision that will lead to an escalating fraternal dispute.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier, Kris Cuppens
Votes: 1,807 | Gross: $0.06M
95. Love, Mommy (2016)
24 min | Short, Drama
After coming out of her latest stint in a psychiatric ward, a mother's son comes to care for her and their abnormal relationship unfolds.
Director: Lloyd Culberson | Stars: Cindy Rucker Trost, Lloyd Culberson, Rebecca Fraiser
Votes: 98
96. Bienvenido a casa (2006)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Samuel and Eva, a young couple, move to Madrid when he finds out work in a newspaper as photograph. She plays the viola, and although Samuel doesn't knows, She's waiting for a baby.
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Alejo Sauras, Pilar López de Ayala, Ariadna Gil, Juan Echanove
Votes: 509
97. Scalene (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A perceptual thriller told from three points-of-view revolving around the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mother's subsequent revenge after his incarceration.
Director: Zack Parker | Stars: Margo Martindale, Adam Scarimbolo, Hanna Hall, Jim Dougherty
Votes: 791
98. Goodbye Dear Mom (1980)
76 min | Drama
Daniel, the son of an important businessman, discovers an intense incestuous desire for his mother after a car accident in which his father dies.
Director: Francisco Lara Polop | Stars: Charo López, Simón Andreu, Juan Carlos Naya, Azucena Hernández
Votes: 48
99. To Love Ophelia (1974)
105 min | Comedy
Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Giovanna Ralli, Françoise Fabian, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 148
100. Firecracker (2005)
TV-MA | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy who lives in a dysfunctional home went to the carnival and met a singer. Shortly after, a murder took place. The town's sheriff is seeking answers. The singer is trying to ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Balderson | Stars: Karen Black, Mike Patton, Susan Traylor, Kathleen Wilhoite
Votes: 1,021
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