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1) The babadook
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son₂s deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of her life.
5) Driveways
Language
English
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
6) Roh
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Malay
Description
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. Malaysia's official submission to the 2021 Academy Awards.
7) Tully
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ryan, a modern-day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician, and Jackie, a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter, defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each other's lives forever.
9) Egg
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women forgo it.
11) Mildred Pierce
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
12) Working woman
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
עברית
Description
Orna is the mother of three children whose husband is struggling to open a restaurant. To help support her family, Orna lands a job with a former army superior who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna tries to balance work and her home life, she experiences escalating sexual harassment from her boss. A pattern of predatory behavior ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink.
13) Fort Bliss
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother Maggie Swann returns home from an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan to discover the bond with her five-year-old son has been broken. As she struggles to reclaim his affection, life after deployment is made more difficult by her persistent memories of Afghanistan. When news of another deployment threatens the fragile balance she has achieved, she must find a way to reconcile her duties as a mother and...
15) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Arabic
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Description
The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
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Description
When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
20) The conjuring 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
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