Happy Mothers Day + 'Mother' Recommendations
Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 1:30PM
NATHANIEL R in All About My Mother, Die Mommie Die, Holidays, List-Mania, Mamma Mia!, Mommie Dearest, Mommy, Mother, Mother India, Parallel Mothers, Petite Maman, Serial Mom
Nicole Kidman posted this beautiful image this morning to celebrate. Look at baby Nic! Happy Mothers Day to all readers especially the mothers. And happy mothers day to everyone, retroactively, who ever birthed someone who helped bring the world movie magic.
And for fun after the jump, 12 favourite movies with mothers in the title...
Best "mother" in the title films
- All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
- Y Tu Mamá Tambíen (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
- Mother (Bong Joon Ho, 2009)
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
- mother! (Darren Aronfosky, 2017)
- Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma, 2021)
- Serial Mom (John Waters, 1994)
- 107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes, 2021)
- The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, 2015)
- Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar, 2021)
- Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)
- Mr Mom (Stan Dragoti, 1983)
and 5 guilty pleasures
- Bloody Mama (Roger Corman, 1970)
- Die, Mommie, Die! (Mark Rucker, 2003)
- Ma (Tate Taylor, 2019)
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker, 2018)
- Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry, 1981)
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