Here we've displayed a list of the best Mother/daughter Relationship films : Autumn Sonata(1978), Secrets & Lies(1996), Mildred Pierce(1945), A Patch of Blue(1965), Now, Voyager(1942), Imitation of Life(1959), Two Women(1960), Bellissima(1951), The Past(2013), The Second Mother(2015), The Joy Luck Club(1993), The Old Maid(1939) ... ...
8.2/10
Drama
Sweden|France|West Germany|UK|Norway
1978
97 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Liv Ullmann Lena Nyman Halvar Björk Erland Josephson Arne Bang-Hansen Gunnar Björnstrand Mimi Pollak
mother daughter mentally impaired person pianist melodramatic gripping sad tense sweden household asylum family dysfunction parenthood reunion mental impairment career vs. family mother/daughter relationship sacrifice discovery rivalry
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
8.0/10
Drama
UK|France
1996
142 Minutes
Timothy Spall Brenda Blethyn Phyllis Logan Marianne Jean-Baptiste Claire Rushbrook Ron Cook Lesley Manville Elizabeth Berrington Michele Austin Lee Ross Emma Amos
doctor mother blue-collar worker daughter brother powerful tense funeral london backyard café family dysfunction mother/daughter relationship family history adoption class distinctions friendship discovery transformation 1990s
Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1945
109 Minutes
Joan Crawford Jack Carson Ann Blyth Zachary Scott Eve Arden Herman Brix Lee Patrick Moroni Olsen Jo Ann Marlowe George Tobias
restaurant owner daughter mother police detective melodramatic tense glendale, calif. murder social standing mother/daughter relationship investigation the great depression mystery sacrifice 1930s
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1965
105 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Shelley Winters Elizabeth Hartman Wallace Ford Ivan Dixon John Qualen Elisabeth Fraser
blind person boyfriend mother charming emotional passionate los angeles household park interracial romance racism love social change mother/daughter relationship love forbidden love discovery 1960s
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1942
117 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid Gladys Cooper Bonita Granville John Loder Ilka Chase Lee Patrick Mary Wickes Janis Wilson
heiress mother architect wife child widower melodramatic emotional inspiring boston house sanatorium ship rio de janeiro mental illness rehabilitation romance travel mother/daughter relationship love
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1959
125 Minutes
Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee Dan O'Herlihy Susan Kohner Robert Alda Juanita Moore Mahalia Jackson Troy Donahue
actress caretaker daughter playwright detective engaging moving melodramatic new york city california beach house ambition career fame identity mother/daughter relationship race relations pursuit rise
An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
7.8/10
Drama
Italy|France
1960
99 Minutes
Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleanora Brown Carlo Ninchi Andrea Checchi Pupella Maggio Emma Baron Bruna Cealti
widow daughter soldier intense powerful rome small town italy church war rape survival mother/daughter relationship love rise 1940s
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
7.8/10
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1951
112 Minutes
Anna Magnani Walter Chiari Tina Apicella
mother daughter father celebrity child actor talent scout emotional heartwarming amusing hilarious lighthearted melodramatic italy talent agency ambition hope dream vs. reality childhood relationships mother/daughter relationship
A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
7.8/10
Drama
France|Italy|Belgium|Iran
2013
130 Minutes
Bérénice Bejo Ali Mosaffa Tahar Rahim Pauline Burlet Elyes Aguis Jeanne Jestin Sabrina Ouazani Babak Karimi Valeria Cavalli Aleksandra Klebanska Jean-Michel Simonet
ex-husband ex-wife daughter emotional paris france secret past mother/daughter relationship love 2010s
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
7.8/10
Drama
Brazil
2015
112 Minutes
Regina Casé Michel Joelsas Lourenço Mutarelli Karine Teles Camila Márdila Helena Albergaria Luis Miranda Theo Werneck Luci Pereira
housekeeper maid family member mother daughter son charming disheartening heartwarming emotional melodramatic intense brazil são paulo apartment relationships single mothers mother/daughter relationship abandonment love
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
7.7/10
Drama
USA|China
1993
138 Minutes
Rosalind Chao Tamlyn Tomita France Nuyen Vivian Wu Andrew McCarthy Kieu Chinh Tsai Chin Lisa Lu Ming-Na Lauren Tom Chao-Li-Chi
mother grandmother daughter immigrant heartwarming touching emotional china san francisco house family history mother/daughter relationship immigration generational divide cross-cultural romance culture clash growing up sacrifice forbidden love transformation
The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1939
95 Minutes
Bette Davis Miriam Hopkins George Brent Donald Crisp Jane Bryan Louise Fazenda James Stephenson Jerome Cowan William Lundigan Cecilia Loftus
adoptive mother cousin daughter father mother emotional melodramatic united states american civil war illegitimate child mother/daughter relationship self-sacrifice sacrifice rivalry 1880s
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
7.6/10
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
7.6/10
Drama
West Germany
1976
105 Minutes
Margit Carstensen Brigitte Mira Ingrid Caven Armin Meier Irm Hermann Gottfried John
husband wife daughter son photographer communist disturbing melodramatic profound factory family home dining room street frankfurt, germany workplace violence media circus family grief hostage situation mother/daughter relationship
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ... See full summary »
7.6/10
Documentary
USA
1975
95 Minutes
Albert Maysles Ellen Hovde
mother daughter filmmaker gardener handyman quirky witty touching east hampton, n.y. mansion mother/daughter relationship edith bouvier beale edie bouvier beale lost loves love 1970s
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
7.5/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1961
100 Minutes
teenager daughter mother sailor boyfriend gay/lesbian bleak emotional england household love friendship mother/daughter relationship emotional abuse pregnancy family dysfunction growing up love discovery 1960s
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1934
106 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Warren William Louise Beavers Rochelle Hudson Ned Sparks Alan Hale Henry Armetta Wyndham Standing
widow daughter housekeeper friend emotional touching atlantic city, n.j. family friendship abandonment race relations business mother/daughter relationship growing up transformation 1930s
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1973
100 Minutes
Joanne Woodward Nell Potts Roberta Wallach Judith Lowry Richard Venture Estelle Omens Carolyn Coates Will Hare Jess Osuna David Spielberg Lynn Rogers
dreamer single mother daughter bookworm epileptic sad disheartening house school parenthood mother/daughter relationship sibling rivalry delusion teenage rebellion wretched excess underdog 1970s
From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Romance
France|USA
1979
108 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Diane Lane Thelonious Bernard Arthur Hill Sally Kellerman David Dukes Andrew Duncan
teen girl teen boy pickpocket mother stepfather director moving amusing paris film set street family home racetrack first love running away filmmaking teen angst mother/daughter relationship growing up love
An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local.
7.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
93 Minutes
Bette Davis Ernest Borgnine Debbie Reynolds Barry Fitzgerald Rod Taylor Robert F. Simon Madge Kennedy Dorothy Stickney Carol Veazie Joan Camden Ray Stricklyn
mother daughter fiancé father uncle endearing spirited melodramatic new york city family home wedding family feud mother/daughter relationship working class discovery sacrifice 1950s
When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes, starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.
7.5/10
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2001
118 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Annie Girardot Benoît Magimel Anna Sigalevitch Susanne Lothar Udo Samel
music teacher professor mother student lover brooding shocking vienna austria apartment music conservatory concert hall mother/daughter relationship teaching piano sadomasochism voyeurism sex pursuit forbidden love
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
7.5/10
Drama
France|Belgium
1999
95 Minutes
Émilie Dequenne Jean-Pierre Dardenne Fabrizio Rongione Anne Yernaux Olivier Gourmet
teen girl mother friend boss dark gritty moving belgium trailer street factory poverty alcoholism friendship mother/daughter relationship employment growing up underdog sacrifice 1990s
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
7.4/10
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.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
7.4/10
Drama
Sweden|Denmark|Norway|Finland|Germany
2008
131 Minutes
Maria Heiskanen Mikael Persbrandt Jesper Christensen Emil Jensen Ghita Nørby Amanda Ooms Antti Reini Birte Heribertsson Claire Wikholm
photographer wife husband daughter inspiring sweden family home mother/daughter relationship marital problems determination alcoholism poverty transformation growing up 1910s
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
7.4/10
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2004
96 Minutes
Michelle Krusiec Joan Chen Lynn Chen Jessica Hecht Ato Essandoh Nathanel Geng Jin Wang Guang Lan Koh David Shih Brian Yang Brittany Perrineau
mother daughter grandfather lesbian love interest emotional endearing inspiring new york city apartment mother/daughter relationship father/daughter relationship lesbianism secret pregnancy tradition love transformation 2000s
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
7.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1995
131 Minutes
Kathy Bates Jennifer Jason Leigh Judy Parfitt Christopher Plummer David Strathairn Eric Bogosian John C. Reilly Ellen Muth Bob Gunton Roy Cooper Wayne Robson
journalist housekeeper elderly woman detective father daughter disturbing brooding melodramatic maine small town family home police station ferry mansion murder dark secrets domestic violence mysterious past mother/daughter relationship
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
7.4/10
Drama, Comedy
USA
1983
132 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger Jack Nicholson Jeff Daniels Danny DeVito John Lithgow Betty King Lisa Hart Carroll Huckleberry Fox Troy Bishop
mother daughter professor astronaut touching emotional sad small town midwest family home family romance cancer mother/daughter relationship love growing up 1980s
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller
New Zealand|Germany
1994
99 Minutes
Melanie Lynskey Kate Winslet Sarah Peirse Diana Kent Clive Merrison Simon O'Connor
mother murderer daughter schoolgirl chilling dreamy striking new zealand school imaginary world mother/daughter relationship friendship murder love revenge 1950s
Two teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
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