Motherhood Movies

At the crossroads of musical documentary, art film and poetic essay, the film Héritières delves into the world of the musical project...

[m]otherhood will make us stop asking women without children why they don’t want to be mothers, because it gives us all the answers. These...

On the fog-drenched Black Sea coast, a woman gives birth to a being that defies nature. As her body and mind begin to unravel, love becomes both her...

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across...

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and...

The film explores the vital role of mothers in their children's lives. When one son grows cold and ungrateful toward his mother, a stranger who sees...

Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant,...

A middle-aged Pakistani housewife, in search of herself, hires a young, self-assured sex worker to keep her company for the night.

Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks...

Overwhelmed by motherhood, Ester steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son David, with an intellectual disability. They meet a young...

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an...

Son confesses to his mother, Ana, that he does not feel like a girl; he is a boy. Confused and blocked, Ana will decide to stop in order to observe...

A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.

What's it like to "make a family" when you're not part of the traditional hetero couple? Can two best buddies living on the same floor become a...

On a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury—and finds a mirror of her own fragility

When two exhausted new moms meet up for a day of relaxation, a salon offers them a surreal and fantastical back room experience that individually...

Laura is frustrated at having to take care of her baby alone, but what she doesn't know is that her worst nightmare is yet to come.

Thirty-year-old Noura's unexpected pregnancy throws her into turmoil. She contemplates avoiding starting a family of her own whilst caring for...

A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident,...

A documentary that follows Michelle "The Karate Hottie" Waterson as she balances life as a mother and professional MMA fighter.