Motherhood Movies

In France, a child is killed by its mother every ten days. By giving a voice to some of these women and their families, this documentary takes a...

A hard-driving career woman in the retail food business, unexpectedly saddled with an infant. Through a series of difficult (bordering on absurd)...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...

Idle hours at a summer cottage, when her husband is at work and the children busy at play, give a wife time to dream a little and reflect on her life...

When a reclusive mother-to-be discovers a door leading to a mirror image of her home, her husband goes snooping inside and never returns. Fearing the...

Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another,...

Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother, Kim suddenly has to deal with a new mother in her life. Choon, Kim's father, brings home a...

After her addicted husband sells their 6-year-old daughter, a mother takes matters into her own hands and sets off on a desperate journey to save her...

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their...

A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and...

n the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old...

Life Is Precious! is one of Simonova's earliest sand pieces. An anti-abortion work, it is built around the image of a fetus during an abortion and...

When an overwhelmed new mom finally gets a night away, a dinner with friends proves harder than she expected.

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

A filmmaker seeking inspiration for her next movie brings her volatile husband and defiant young son camping on the Oregon coast. When her competing...

Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.

Esperanza, a pregnant undocumented housecleaner, goes into labor at a bus stop. She is led to the nearest hospital, where she encounters barriers to...

An expectant mother sees her life through different womens' perpsectives.

During a fierce frontier winter, a young mother struggles to find presents for her young children.