Mother Daughter Relationship Movies

An African-American girl, obsessed with her hair, seeks guidance in a small fish when her mother forces her to go underwater.

A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived...

After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more...

A definitive film on music icon Cass Elliot's life, legacy, and the mother-daughter bond that shaped them both, rather than a traditional biopic on...

18-year-old Yeong-seon lives in a residential facility for teenagers. She tries to leave the place and stands on her own two feet, although a social...

A short film uncovering the reality of UK animal testing through one woman’s heart-breaking journey.

Striving to please her overbearing mother, a 13-year-old gymnast attempts to lose 5 pounds in one night.

In Barcelona, Queralt, a painter, tries to talk by phone with her daughter Gemma, also a painter, who lives and works in a small studio in Athens.

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

A single-mother struggles to drop her only daughter off for college.

Nwa, a British-Nigerian woman, is in torment for not being able to have children. However, a transformative baptism leads her on an unusual journey...

As a mother and her two adult daughters linger after dinner, the familiar surface slowly begins to crack, revealing a silent, deeply rooted...

Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she...

A contemporary fairytale about the relationship between a mother and her autistic daughter, and their fascination with starling murmurations. Evie...

Sushila decides to have a baby through IVF and names her Gauri. When Gauri grows up and decides to get married to Anand, his family insists on...

A gap in the relationship with her mother causes Luna to seek affection from a mysterious doll.

A young woman finds herself struggling to maintain her mental health and grounded family life on a rural Dutch island when her capricious,...

A mother wants to tell her daughter her opinion via video, but because she is untrained in using the new technology, she returns to the familiar...

Cassandra has always defined her worth through her role as a mother, but when her newly-adult daughter, Florence, experiences a still birth they both...

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...