Mother Drama Movies

List of the best drama movies about mothers selected by visitors to our site: Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Step Up 2: The Streets, Manchester by the Sea, The Butler, Still Alice, Wild, Richard Jewell, Dallas Buyers Club, Juno.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
Duration02:09

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:35

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore s underground dance battle The Streets.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:41

    Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, "Richard Jewell" is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth. "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing-his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

      Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:36

      A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

        The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, China, Canada
        Duration01:55

        Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:25

        A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, adventure, family
        CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
        Duration01:38

        A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration01:38

        Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:44

        Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:13

        Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:57

        The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, musical, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:25

        The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama
        CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
        Duration01:49

          In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

          A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:46

            The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genredrama, adventure, family, biography, history
            CountryUSA

            The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:00

            After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

            A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

            A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:31

            Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

            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: 6.6
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, Argentina
            Duration02:24

            Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama, music, biography, history
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
            Duration02:05

            Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, drama, family
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:04

            Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:29

            A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:26

            Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrecomedy, drama, family
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:53

            When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:30

            A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:09

            A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

            Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrecomedy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:11

            Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography, history
            CountryUSA, Japan
            Duration02:30

            A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:01

            A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryAustralia, USA
            Duration02:23

            An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
            Duration02:26

            A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:27

            Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:44

            A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:03

            On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.




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