20 movies like Medea, ordered by similarity : Mother's Day(2018), Lady for a Day(1933), A Mother Knows Worst(2020), Never Let Go(2015), Momma's Man(2008), Secret Superstar(2017), Never Steady, Never Still(2017), Life Begins for Andy Hardy(1941), Love Never Dies(1921), Hard, Fast and Beautiful(1951), Woman Against Woman(1938), A Romance of Happy Valley(1919) ...
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1970
110 Minutes
Maria Callas Laurent Terzieff Giuseppi Gentile Massimo Girotti Margareth Clementi Sergio Tramonti Annamaria Chio Luigi Barbini Gian Paolo Durgar Paul Jabara Franco Jacobbi
creature mother sorceress father figure second wife hero sad inspiring palace city corinth evil plot obsession greek drama deception jealousy rage
After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with the powerful sorceress, Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it's only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?
Drama
2018
90 Minutes
Anna Maxwell Martin Vicky McClure Daniel Mays David Wilmot Simone Kirby
mother terrorist family victim son gritty powerful tense england city united kingdom terrorism political unrest mother/son relationship mother courage transformation revenge 1990s
Two women living on opposite sides of the Irish Sea are brought together by the Warrington bombing in 1993.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
95 Minutes
Warren William May Robson Guy Kibbee Glenda Farrell Ned Sparks Walter Connolly Jean Parker Nat Pendleton Barry Norton Halliwell Hobbes Hobart Bosworth
fruit seller mother daughter fiancé gangster father amusing intricate new york city mother/daughter relationship deception class distinctions social standing family gangsters underdog transformation 1930s
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2020
90 Minutes
Katie Leclerc Jeff Schine Victoria Barabas Todd Cahoon Heather Ankeny Katie Michels Tyee Tilghman Martha Hackett
mother pregnant woman grieving mother father friend baby bleak disturbing intense raw suspenseful frightening united states family home death of child obsession motherhood jealousy parenting rebuilding
After losing her child, Olivia Davis meets a woman and her daughter and admiration turns into obsession.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Morocco|Spain|UK
2015
93 Minutes
Angela Dixon Nigel Whitmey Lisa Eichhorn Velibor Topic Heather Peace Rami Nasr Samantha Bolter Michael Xavier
single mother baby child heroine kidnapped child kidnapper hero police captain chilling dark emotional frenetic gripping intense powerful shocking united states morocco spain city
A single mother on vacation, takes the law into her own hands to take back her abducted child.
Drama
USA
2008
99 Minutes
Matt Boren Ken Jacobs Flo Jacobs Dana Varon Richard Edson Piero Arcilesi Eleanor Hutchins
businessman son father mother wife brother charming sad profound new york city office family home bedroom kitchen los angeles aging nostalgia childhood responsibility family
A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
Drama, Music
India
2017
150 Minutes
Zaira Wasim Meher Vij Raj Arjun Tirth Sharma Farrukh Jaffar Aamir Khan Manuj Sharma Nikita Anand Mona Ambegaonkar
father mother young girl mentor aspiring singer emotional endearing sad disheartening inspiring incredible india city house room street chasing dreams aspirations conservatism domineering father
A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.
Drama
Canada
2017
111 Minutes
Shirley Henderson Théodore Pellerin Mary Galloway Nicholas Campbell Jared Abrahamson Jonathan Whitesell Beverley Elliott Lorne Cardinal Eric Keenleyside Chilton Crane Sean Owen Roberts
mother son teenager father oil worker disabled person emotional heartwarming inspiring moving sad alberta, canada oil field house support group small town parkinson's disease mother/son relationship alienation struggle
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Fay Holden Ann Rutherford Sara Haden
young man father mother girlfriend friend cheeky engaging moving small town new york city apartment park office garage maturing city life unemployment father/son relationship death growing up
Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.
Drama
USA
1921
80 Minutes
Lloyd Hughes Madge Bellamy Joseph Bennett Claire McDowell Winifred Greenwood Frank Brownlee Julia Brown Lillian Leighton
husband wife father rival mother melodramatic uneasy north carolina small town city household river reputation deception father/daughter relationship false accusations small-town life schemes rivalry transformation
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him,... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
79 Minutes
Claire Trevor Sally Forrest Carleton G. Young Robert Clarke Kenneth Patterson Marcella Cisney Joseph Kearns William Hudson
teen girl love interest mother father tennis player melodramatic tense spirited santa monica, calif. country club new york city tennis court wimbledon mother/daughter relationship tennis deception new love ambition manipulation growing up
Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
Drama
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Herbert Marshall Virginia Bruce Mary Astor Janet Beecher Marjorie Rambeau Juanita Quigley Zeffie Tilbury Sarah Padden Dorothy Christy Morgan Wallace Joseph Crehan
lawyer wife daughter second wife mother husband melodramatic intense household washington, d.c. party country club inn small town divorce jealousy remarriage family duplicity social standing
Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1919
60 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron George Fawcett Kate Bruce George Nichols Bertram Grassby
girlfriend mother father inventor son wealthy man melodramatic kentucky family home big city countryside new york city apartment ambition city vs. country homecoming rags to riches family financial troubles quest
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several... See full summary »
Drama
1976
93 Minutes
Hilda Koronel Ruel Vernal Rez Cortez Carpi Asturias Mona Lisa Marlon Ramirez Nina Lorenzo Mely Mallari
young woman mother daughter boyfriend love interest uncle engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful bleak intense manila manila, philippines relationships attraction mother/daughter relationship jealousy fighting tragedy
After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.
Comedy, Drama
2006
111 Minutes
Moritz Bleibtreu Christian Ulmen Martina Gedeck Franka Potente Nina Hoss Uwe Ochsenknecht Corinna Harfouch Tom Schilling Herbert Knaup
man brother psychologist mother passionate sad rousing germany clinic brothel flat beach brotherhood sex obsession mother/son relationship illness love 2000s
An unhappily married teacher (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his lonely half-brother (Christian Ulmen) have sexual liaisons.
Drama
1986
76 Minutes
Emma Coles Kris Bidenko Kris McQuade Stephen Leeder Debra May Peter Hehir Tony Barry Kerry Dwyer Arthur Faynes Kim Antonios Denise Roberts
teen girl friend mother boyfriend father sad profound sydney beach school house friendship mother/daughter relationship adolescence family coming of age divorce growing up transformation 1980s
Two Australian teenage girls (Emma Coles, Kris Bidenko) go from best friends to ex-friends in a year.
Drama
Argentina
1985
110 Minutes
Norma Aleandro Héctor Alterio Chela Ruíz Chunchuna Villafañe Hugo Arana Guillermo Battaglia Patricio Contreras María Luisa Robledo
husband wife daughter wealthy man emotional tense sad argentina household adoption deception marriage military missing persons mother/child relationship discovery quest 1980s
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
young woman mother father terrorist passenger gripping thrilling intense powerful inspiring india city house airplane bedroom cockpit chasing dreams ambition abusive marriage hijacking
Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Drama
India
1956
105 Minutes
Pinaki Sengupta Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Ramani Sengupta Charuprakash Ghosh Smaran Ghosal Santi Gupta Ranibala Sudipta Roy Ajay Mitra Subodh Ganguli
young boy mother father widow sad moving india calcutta, india village mother/child relationship family death school loneliness loss growing up discovery 1950s
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Comedy, Drama
France
2019
88 Minutes
Benoît Magimel Clotilde Courau Henri-Noël Tabary Mina Farid Zahia Dehar Loubna Abidar Nuno Lopes
teen girl cousin teen boy mother intense inspiring melodramatic brooding passionate charming lake home jealousy puberty sexual identity sex death of mother love forbidden love temptation
Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.
Drama
USA
2013
85 Minutes
Michael B. Jordan Octavia Spencer Melonie Diaz Ahna O'Reilly Kevin Durand Chad Michael Murray Joey Oglesby Laurel Moglen Liisa Cohen Ariana Neal Alex Alessandro Garcia
young man black man girlfriend daughter mother police officer gritty inspiring disheartening sad somber oakland, calif. subway family home city accidental death racial profiling race relations family parent/child relationship
The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.