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Plot Summary:
Tarela, a young lady who works at a local bar where she is constantly owed salary, struggles to make ends meet as the survival of her mother, Ebiere and her younger sister, Kome, rests squarely on her shoulders.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand, Nigeria
Duration:
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Kate Brasher (2001)
Plot Summary:
Kate Brasher is an American dramatic television series that was broadcast by CBS. It premiered at 9:00pm ET/PT on Saturday, February 24, 2001 and was cancelled after six episodes. The title character was the single mother of teenaged sons Daniel and Elvis. Facing a financial crisis, she seeks legal advice at Brothers Keepers, an inner city community advocacy center, and is offered a job as a social worker. Her co-workers include attorney Abbie Schaeffer and Joe Almeida, the organization's street-smart director, who founded it after his daughter was killed in gang crossfire. Series creator Stephen Tolkin based the character of Almeida on Rabbi Mark Borovitz, an ex-convict and alcoholic who became the spiritual leader of Gateways Beit T'Shuvah, a residential treatment center for Jews in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. The two men met when Tolkin contacted the rabbi for help with a friend who was dealing with substance abuse. Although set in Santa Monica, the series was shot on location in San Diego, California. Among those actors making guest appearances during the series' short run were K Callan, Dennis Christopher, Paul Dooley, Mariette Hartley, Josh Hopkins, Carl Lumbly, David Naughton, and Mackenzie Phillips.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Not Others (2023)
Plot Summary:
Eun-mi is just like any other woman her age, with the exception that she gave birth to her daughter, Jin-hee, while she was in high school. Living under the same roof as Eun-mi is no different for Jin-hee than raising her own daughter, and it's often difficult to determine who plays the role of the mother. Despite their roommate-like conflicts, deep down they know they can rely on each other when things get a little too chaotic. As a fresh day begins, Eun-mi and Jin-hee step into another day of their remarkable journey, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary in their uniquely intertwined lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Come Home (2018)
Plot Summary:
Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children – the last taboo of parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Melissa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love Yourself (2020)
Plot Summary:
Television reporter Sun Yihe, corporate manager Ren Ran, the optimistic Dingding and single mother Xue Kairui are all on the cusp of turning thirty and have reached career bottlenecks. Their love lives don’t go too smoothly either, as all sorts of conflicts and problems start to surface when they begin dating.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Angel Falls (1993)
Plot Summary:
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son moving back to her Montana hometown after the death of her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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A Year in the Life (1987)
Plot Summary:
Following the success of the miniseries, NBC launched a drama series the following the Gardner family.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Good Witch (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cha Sun-Hee is a housewife and she is married to Bong Cheon-Dae. Her husband is currently unemployed. She has a twin sister, Cha Do-Hee, who works as a flight attendant. Although they are identical twins, they have completely opposite personalities. Cha Do-Hee becomes involved in a situation which leads to Cha Sun-Hee pretending to be her flight attendant sister. She then meets co-pilot Song Woo-Jin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, sweet
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Portrait of a Stripper (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young widow, supporting herself and her son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Satan Was A Lady (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, sexy, captivating, suspense
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Fran (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lessons in Chemistry (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: period drama
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The Gromovs (2006)
Plot Summary:
At the end of 70s in little miner's town lives Gromovs family: Mary, Feyodor and their children - Nastya, Sasha, Sava and little Nick. Feyodor works at mine, Mary - the teacher. Their measured life full of daily cares, troubles and pleasures. Whatever happens they always have their stronghold - a loving family. Some people even jealous to Gromovs family - they are so happy together. But soon happens horrible tragedy: the father perishes, and mother with childs are compelled to leave the settlement and look for a new place where they will find their new happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, compassionate, disturbing, rough, emotional, sad, realistic, tear jerker, uplifting, sentimental
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This Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Cold Call (2019)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Candy House (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as chilhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and talk nonsense, like in their youth. However, they realize this unfettered, comfortable existence will end some day with the passage of time. Then Taro’s ex-classmate, Kimura Reiko, comes back home with her son after a divorce. He and his friends start to notice what is truly important to them as they face up to their pasts, dreams and pains.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Marriage Contract (2016)
Plot Summary:
A poor, widowed woman desperate to support her 7-year-old daughter and a wealthy business executive with a sick mother enter into a contract marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, tear jerker, heartfelt, tearjerker
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The Two Lives of Estela Carrillo (2017)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a murder, single mother Estela Carrillo must hide the fact that she is an undocumented immigrant escaping a dark past. While hiding her secret, romantic interests and her dream of becoming a singer complicate her plans.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Our Kind of People (2021)
Plot Summary:
A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family's name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother's past that will turn her world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Mother Game (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office tells her Haruto can't attend immediately. Kiko, busy to open her box lunch food store by next month, finds herself in a predicament with her son not having supervision by then. At this time, a director of a kindergarten school, Fune Naraoka, talks to Kiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Chi (2018)
Plot Summary:
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, mind bending, unusual plot structure, suspense, hood, sitcom
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Maid (2021)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the powerful New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Maid will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to - barely - make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 545 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, intellectual, political, social, deep, spectacular, feel good
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Woman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of mother Bahar, who carries the weight and love of two children in their hearts with enthusiasm in their hearts. Bahar, abandoned by her mother when she was eight years old, later lost her grandma and her father. When she thinks she is all alone, she meets Sarp, whom she delicately loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Amor dividido (2022)
Plot Summary:
April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ahead.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Judging Amy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching, serious
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The Ropes (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Ropes is an inside look into the hilarious, yet explosive world of nightclub bouncing. The series follows the charismatic young Martin, who hustles his way into a job as a bouncer only to be taken under the wing of Big Vic, the club's legendary head bouncer who prides himself on being the epitome of a fighter and ladies man. But soon, Martin is lured into the nefarious underworld by Les, another bouncer with his own crooked outlook. It's then that Martin must wrestle with his head and heart as he navigates a world shaped by bribes, beautiful women, but most importantly brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Philly (2001)
Plot Summary:
Philly is an American television series created by Steven Bochco that focused on criminal defense attorney Kathleen Maguire. It lasted a full season and was canceled due to low ratings. The final episode was advertised heavily as the series finale, a move not commonly used in network promotion, for a series lasting only one season. The complete series is not on DVD, but is viewable on Netflix in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. The series briefly aired in syndication on Universal HD in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic, contemplative