American films about the stepmother

List of the best American films about the stepmother according to the audience: Shut In, Under the Bed, mother!, The Better Angels, Maggie's Plan, Lopez, Children of the Corn: Runaway, My Son Hunter, Central Intelligence, The Campaign.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Canada, USA
Duration02:24

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Exploring the real George Lopez we rarely get to see, pushed and pulled between the worlds of race, class and fame, yet always having a hard time fitting in.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUSA

Fictional retelling of the lifestyle and scandals of Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:26

After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, news
CountryUSA

Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Mask You Live In asks: as a society, how are we failing our boys?

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

A daredevil photographer, an aspiring swimsuit model, and a midwest girl next door are all looking for the same things from their Instagram accounts––a little love, acceptance and, of course, fame––and they’ll do just about anything to get it.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:55

    An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:33

    Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when he is ordered to take out his mentor and close friend Harry, Bishop is anything but detached.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    After workaholic Kevin has a drunken one night stand with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline, he's horrified to discover that she's actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress. When she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake... and over the course of the night the two begin to fall for each other.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:08

    With his business in shambles, a mounting criminal record, and a cheating wife, today is the day that Buddy Hutchins snaps.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration05:46

    When over-the-top Amy enters Allison’s organized but imperfect life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is actually an angel or just nuts.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryPortugal, USA

    In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A family vacation takes a terrifying turn when parents Paul and Wendy discover their young daughter has vanished without a trace. Stopping at nothing to find her, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, documentary, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world's most premiere bodybuilding stage - Mr. Olympia.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-­driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-­phobic ex-­boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back in with his alcoholic mother. Upon his return, Ben soon discovers that his girlfriend, Jessica Morgan, has moved on with her life and is now dating an older college guy. Desperate for love and unable to cope with losing Jessica, Ben's troubled past catches up with him as he kidnaps her in an attempt to regain her affection. Spiraling out of control and on a very dangerous path, Ben must ultimately decide whether to let her go, or hold on to the one person he loves, even if it means destroying them both in the process.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:56

    Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Set in Newark during the 1960s race riots between the African-American and Italian communities. The war between the cultural mobs turns especially lethal. Prequel to the TV series The Sopranos.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA

    After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:39

    A professor creates a device that allows him and his colleague to change the course of events from the past in order to improve their current life.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    The creation of filmmaker Michael Emanuel, SCARY OR DIE tells five interwoven horror stories that take place in and around the “City of Angles”. A flesh-eating clown desperately trying to protect the person he craves the most; a dirty cop and a hit gone wrong with a vengeful Necromancer; a beautiful but mysterious woman and a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places; a gruesome, blood-splattered uprising of illegal Mexican zombies; and a Cajun conjurer grandfather whose gift of never-ending love goes terribly awry…SCARY OR DIE is a unique experience in horror filmmaking certain to fulfill all your twisted horror film experience needs.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:57

    27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, documentary
    CountryUSA

    Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUSA

    Immigrant nanny Aisha, piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrethriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:32

    Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    This biopic of the legendary actor Marlon Brando stars Damian Chapa as the two-time Oscar-winner and focuses primarily on the troubled relationship Brando had with his son Christian who battled drug addiction

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryGermany, USA

    When a systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie's Angels from across the globe are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect society.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Mexico

    With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained friendship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    The neurological inner workings of romantic relationships between men and women are studied for science.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Canada, Brazil, China

    A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.




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