Mother Daughter Relationship Movies

A mother and her daughter, born of the ocean, try desperately to heal one another.

Autobiographically based short about the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a deserted, sun drenched Rome.

Safa’s been through a lot. Now her car battery's dead in a strip mall parking lot.

It's nighttime in 1980s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Glittery and glamorous heels climb out of cars. Women shrouded in traditional black abayas make their...

When a fragile bond is broken, there is only love that can heal and embrace it.

In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.

Through a series of extraordinarily honest and intimate conversations, filmmaker Aurora Brachman examines the intergenerational fallout of...

On a journey across Central Park, an introspective high school senior develops unexpected feelings for her charismatic co-valedictorian as they...

A young daughter resents another man coming into the life of her divorced mother.

Michelle, a mother and former full-time worker, is tasked with taking care of her mother, Indira, who has begun to develop dementia. Faced with the...

Megan Florentino, a woman whose life is shattered after a scientific experiment gone wrong infects her with gene-splicing DNA, transforming her into...

Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...

A mother and a daughter in a bond beyond time, waiting to move forward among absurd dialogue, injections, plants and e-mails.

An achrival documentary exploring the relationship between Nina Moretto and her mother Graziella Moretto

When a 9-year-old girl discovers that her mother works as a prostitute at night, she tries to escape their morbidly symbiotic relationship in a bold...

Mother and daughter walk in a medieval landscape. To the reports of romantic fantasies of her mother's adolescence, the daughter responds with deep...

Jeanne dreams of leaving her life as a farmer behind to become an actress, but her path is troubled because she tirelessly tends to her mother,...

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to...

A powerful story about a swimming teacher dealing with the overwhelming effects of loss, grief, and guilt.

In 2007, fifteen-year-old Chaeyoung is diagnosed with anorexia and committed to a mental hospital. Feeling guilty, her mother, Sangok, tries to trace...