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Plot Summary:
The Hayashidas were a typical happy family of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Until it all changed suddenly with the untimely death of the father, Shinpei. While still mourning his passing, the children are hit by another bit of shocking news from their mother “Truth is… I'm pregnant.” The news of their mother's pregnancy at 51 sets into motion a new series of challenges for the four children, particularly for the eldest sister, Manami, who now becomes the family patriarch, forced to struggle with the pressures and responsibilities of “child rearing” and “family ties”, not to mention greater philosophical questions about the meaning of life. A moving, life-sized human drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Mana X Ouranou (2014)
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Maria Solomou plays a mother who tries to keep balance with her husband, Grigoris and her two teenage children, Alexia and Paraskeuas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration:
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Dejta (2020)
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When single mom Ella creates a profile on a dating site opens the door to a new world of romance, adventure, occasional disappointment, but also a lot of wonderful passion. But what is it really Ella wants? Dejta is a warm Swedish drama comedy about daring to live life to the fullest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
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Whispers from a Crime Scene (2016)
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When this happens though, she blacks out. Even in her day-to-day life, she can hear people's evil intentions and true colors and senses their lies and deception. That is why she always wears headphones in order to shut out people's emotions. She works well with her colleagues at the "Red Spider Lily" (Higanbana) unit, who are all brutally honest acid-tongued women with no qualms about speaking their minds. "Red Spider Lily" is an eclectic unit that includes a science geek, a single mom, and a woman who grew up abroad. Seen by many as a department that's been taken off the main career track, "Red Spider Lily" turns out to be full of fabulous detectives!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Battle for Happiness (2023)
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A suspense drama depicting mothers engaged in a fierce social media battle to destroy each others' happiness for their own, to free themselves from oppression, hurt, and secrets, and regain their true selves.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Sanctuary (2023)
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A tough, desperate kid becomes a sumo wrestler, captivating fans with his cocky attitude — and upsetting an industry steeped in tradition.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Affairs of the Heart (2014)
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It's about 3 sisters and their father who live together after their mother left them. They want to get married but so many things happen and change their life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
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Dear Mom (2014)
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Feng-Yi (Hsueh-Feng Lu) is a self-sacrificing mother who works tirelessly to support her four grown daughters in their life endeavors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min
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Love is True (2021)
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Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Eric LaRue (2023)
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Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
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My Guardian Angels (2020)
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Mandy (Zoe Tay), Miao Miao (Kym Ng) and Si Jin (Somaline Ang) come from different backgrounds but share one common trait, they have to raise their children single-handedly. Mandy was a socialite before her husband died after absconding with company funds. She was forced to move into a tiny apartment with her two daughters and shares it with another tenant Dong Yu (Pierre Png). Miao Miao is a housewife whose husband worked overseas all year long, leaving her to raise their three sons alone. Si Jin was a student with good grades, until she gave it up to give birth to her son at 19 years old and became a single mother. All three seemingly different women become friends and see each other through many ups and downs. And at the centre of it all is an uncanny guardian angel, Dong Yu, who helped them through many difficult times. But soon is it discovered that Dong Yu was a convicted felon, what are his secrets and will it change their friendship with him?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min
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Cassiopeia (2022)
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Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in to help Su-jin take care of Gina. The three live together for some time, until one day, Su-jin gets into a car accident and receives an unexpected diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
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100% Senorita (2003)
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When a surrogate mother gives birth to twins, she keeps Liang Xiaofeng by her side and gives Zhuang Feiyang away, who ends up in a wealthy family. Years later, Zhuang Feiyang becomes the heiress of Formosa Inc., a company created by her father and his partner, Peter. When Feiyang’s father passes away, Peter tries to kill Feiyang and take the company for his own. Despite Peter’s attempts, Feiyang escapes and undergoes cosmetic surgery in a bid to change her looks. From then on, the twins’ fates entwine once more.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 46 min
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Lace (1984)
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A sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) sets a trap for the trio who abandoned her as a baby, to destroy the one who is her mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Mama (2014)
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Han Seung-hee is a successful painter and a happy single mother to her son, Geu-roo. But when she gets diagnosed with a terminal illness, Seung-hee becomes determined that Geu-roo will be adopted by a nice family after she's gone. So she seeks out her ex-boyfriend Moon Tae-joo, and ends up befriending Tae-joo's wife, Seo Ji-eun. Meanwhile, a much younger photographer Gu Ji-sub falls for Seung-hee.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
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The Stonebreaker (2020)
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After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
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Dr. DMAT (2014)
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DMAT, the acronym for the “Disaster Medical Assistance Team”, was first established in 2004. For the past 10 years, the team has been providing on-site emergency assistance at disaster-hit areas. Yakumo Hibiki was an surgeon at the Arisukawa General Hospital’s Emergency Unit, but due to a mistake involving his sister Haruko, he has since been transferred to the internal medicine unit. One day, the hospital Director, Dr. Isesaki Katsuichi, requests for Hibiki to move to DMAT. His childhood friend, Nurse Yoshioka Rin, encourages him to take up the role, but upon joining the team, Hibiki finds his new colleagues aloof and a little eccentric. His first assignment is to a pile-up accident in a road tunnel, and he finds himself working against time to provide medical treatment to those who require immediate attention.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Bird That Doesn't Cry (2015)
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A drama about revenge towards Cheon Mi-ja (Oh Hyun-kyeong) by Oh Honey (Hong Ah-reum), whose role model mother is murdered for insurance and loses everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
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Illusion (2022)
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Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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The Lying Life of Adults (2023)
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Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Mother (2016)
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A child being scolded rescued by her teacher after falsifying her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, sentimental
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Gülcemal (2023)
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The story revolves around the love that begins with hatred between Gülcemal (Murat Ünalmış), whom his mother abandoned and turned into a dark monster when he was young, and the beautiful Deva (Melis Sezen), who becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of fire, passion, and storm. In Gülcemal's battle with his mother, will an unexpected love or the years of hatred he has harbored prevail? Will Gülcemal, on this road full of sacrifices, turn from being a cruel hunter to prey out in the open? And what about Deva? When she finally surrenders, will she realize that this love is impossible?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min
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Mother and Lover (2004)
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Shingo Okazaki is a young man devoted to his mother to a degree that's rare in Japan. He's a young fellow who treats his mother with respect, but his tendency to overdo it makes his filial devotion look more like a little fault to those around him. Then, a young woman falls in love with him. She finds it very admirable that he takes such good care of his mother, but is also a bit confused by this fellow who seems to care more for his mother than for his girlfriend.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Cennet (2017)
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Cennet was abandoned as a baby, and has struggled bravely through life, desperate for the motherly love she has missed out on. Brought up by her grandmother, Cennet has little in her life apart from her best friend. However, an accident breaks them apart and he vanishes from her life. Years later, despite her poor background, Cennet has worked hard to become the top student in her architecture class. Following their graduation, her schoolmate Melisa's mother offers her a dream job at her successful firm. There she meets Selim, and as they are drawn to each other he starts remembering Cennet - as the childhood friend that he had long since forgotten. Their relationship isn't welcomed by Melisa's mother who plans for her daughter to marry Selim. When she discovers a birthmark on Cennet's neck, identical to that of the baby she abandoned over 20 years ago, she starts to believe that Cennet's appearance is no coincidence - and reacts not with maternal affection, but a plan to get rid of her from her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: social, sentimental, captivating, entertaining, visually appealing, tear jerker, tearjerker
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
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A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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Daisy Winters (2017)
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An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, she learns how to embrace every moment with determination and unrelenting self-confidence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Anupamaa (2020)
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Anupama had to sacrifice a lot to become an ideal wife, daughter-in-law, and mother. After a bitter realisation, she sets out to live on her own terms.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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The Island (2010)
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To Nisi is a Greek television series based on the best-selling English novel The Island by Victoria Hislop airing on Mega Channel. The series premiered on 11 October 2010 to record ratings and critical acclaim. It is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever with a budget of €4 million.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bad Mothers (2019)
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Sarah’s perfect life as a GP, wife and mother is shattered when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Then her best friend is found murdered and Sarah’s husband, Anton, is arrested. She finds unlikely sisterhood and support in a ragtag group of outsiders.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Mythomaniac (2019)
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Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating
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Aglama Anne (2018)
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Aglama Anne (Crying Mom) living in high school for a one-night love for fun at night, Zeynep will suffer for many years later. Alev will get pregnant that night and will not want to have the child. Young people around the event will hear the name of the young Alev's son to kill the killer. Alev and Adnan's daughters, Zeynep, will grow up in this strange situation, but Zeynep's mother will be mother-in-law without her mother, Alev. Then we will follow Zeynep and Mert's love. Birce Akalay will give life to Alev, who has psychological problems and is being treated.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing