20 best movies like Mother and Child (2009)

List of the best movies like Mother and Child (2009): Carol, Immediate Family, Life Itself, Fruitvale Station, A Marine Story, About Time, American Heart, Crown Heights, Regarding Henry, At First Sight.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
Duration02:35

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:35

Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things don't go quite to plan however..

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:28

As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA

Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:03

    The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
    CountryUSA

    Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe and quiet to gather his thoughts. But the streets are relentless and soon, George finds himself teetering on the edge, alone and abandoned.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    While listening to a recording of Penny Serenade, Julie Gardiner Adams begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams, which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows they have shared. A flood of memories come back to her as she ponders on their present problems and how they arose.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom, France, USA, Germany
    Duration01:32

    Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

    The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    James, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf, falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Singapore
    Duration02:00

    Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:19

    At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa
    Duration01:45

    An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers—compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:38

      An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her theses on his work, her interest forces hims to address the issues that have been he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
      CountryUSA, India
      Duration02:33

      A poor New York resident, who is of Indian origin, dreams of becoming a fast car race driver. He endeavors, and his efforts are rewarded when he selected by a little-known group called 'RACING SADDLES'. He joins them and soon becomes their ace race driver. This man, whose name is Rajveer, then meets with a rich American woman, also of Indian origin, whose name is Radhika. Both fall in love with each other. They cannot get married, because Radhika's family hates Rajveer mainly because he is very poor. But Radhika is very stubborn, so she marries him. She loses all her rights to her family's wealth. They get married and become parents of two children. They also become very rich. Then Rajveer has an accident which changes their lives forever. They get into debt and stand to lose everything. Will Radhika be forced to return back to her family?

      Markimdb: 8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris more exciting than America and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy
      Duration02:40

      It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:19

      Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryGermany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic

      A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain

      One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryItaly

      Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.




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