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Publisher
FX Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max, Frankie and Duke in Los Angeles. She's mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil, an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love for her daughters, and her own mother as well, sometimes heaping the love on when she feels guilty.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sam, a single mother and working actor with no filter, raises her three daughters, Max, Frankie, and Duke in Los Angeles. She also looks after her mother, Phil, an English expatriate with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she's struggling to keep her daughters close or trying to push one of them out of the nest, Sam approaches every challenge with fierce love, raw honesty, and humor. At the end of the day, Sam's just trying...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Co-created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K., this series follows Sam Fox (Adlon), a single mom and working actor -- with lots of love but no real filter -- who also acts as a dad, referee, and sometimes even the police, raising her three daughters in Los Angeles. She also watches out for her mother, (Celia Imrie), a British expat, who lives across the street. Sam's just trying to earn a living, navigate her daughters' lives, have fun with a friend or...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Janet King, a senior crown prosecutor, returns to work after maternity leave to find her workplace even more demanding than when she left. She quickly becomes involved in a high-profile and controversial case, and makes several enemies in her search for the truth.
7) Bad moms
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When three overworked and underappreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long-overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Christy is a single mom whose newly found sobriety has given her the ability to see her life clearly, and she does not like the view. Now she must untangle years of reckless decisions to make a better life for her and her kids. She has many challenges: stop drinking in wine country; a romance with her unavailable boss, raise her young son and troubled teenage daughter to make smart choices; and forgive her estranged mother, Bonnie, for her lack of...
Publisher
Warner Archives
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Christy is a single mom valiantly trying to overcome a lifetime of questionable choices. Now a year clean and sober, she's tested daily by her seventeen-year-old daughter Violet, her young son Roscoe, and her newly sober mom, Bonnie in this pulls-no-punches comedy.
11) The mother
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A newly widowed woman moves to London to be near her family. She soon feels like she is just an invisible old lady until a young man comes into her life. She finds things in herself that she thought were lost forever, but at what cost?
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Spanish-born filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza follows-up his debut drama Aquí y allá with another sensitive portrait of a struggling family. Stressed by her job in a diner, single mother Regina is raising her two children in northern Florida. When her fourteen-year-old son Andrew has another brush with the law, she worries he will wind up in prison like his father. Méndez Esparza employs documentary-style realism in this snapshot of race, class...
13) Light from light
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It's there she meets Richard, a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues, which eventually pulls in Shelia's son, Owen, and his classmate Lucy, forces them to confront the mysteries of their own lives.
14) White oleander
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
15) Little children
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings his son to the playground. Sarah is amazed to find these...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Miranda Wells is a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence re-ignites the family's spirit, but he also carries a secret, and it's a secret that could change everything.
18) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Some thematic elements.
19) Mother's Day
Publisher
Open Road Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This celebration of mothers everywhere invites all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate, but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna's deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it's too late.
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