Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "mother-son-relationship", "struggle"

1. Joker (I) (2019)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy

Votes: 1,492,649 | Gross: $335.45M

2. Us (II) (2019)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker

Votes: 341,790 | Gross: $175.08M

3. The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama

Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 63,375

4. The Girl Next Door (2007)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.

Director: Gregory Wilson | Stars: William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Kevin Chamberlin

Votes: 29,431

5. The Loved Ones (2009)

R | 84 min | Crime, Horror

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.

Director: Sean Byrne | Stars: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton, Richard Wilson

Votes: 44,116

6. 1900 (1976)

Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini

Votes: 27,302

7. A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

R | 104 min | Comedy

As their own mothers drop in unexpectedly, our three under-appreciated and over-burdened moms rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas.

Directors: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore | Stars: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Jay Hernandez

Votes: 57,739 | Gross: $72.11M

8. Fifteen and Pregnant (1998 TV Movie)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama

When 15-year-old Tina becomes pregnant, her parents must grapple not only with their own current marital crisis, but also their opposing views on adoption.

Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Park Overall, Julia Whelan, David Andrews

Votes: 2,619

9. All the King's Men (2006)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

Director: Steven Zaillian | Stars: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 25,617 | Gross: $7.22M

10. Z (1969)

M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer

Votes: 31,382 | Gross: $0.08M

11. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East

Votes: 24,292

12. The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

Three courageous young Americans prevent a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, Ray Corasani

Votes: 35,554 | Gross: $36.25M

13. Criminal Law (1988)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Boston defense attorney gets his wealthy client off for murder, then suspects him of killing again.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young

Votes: 4,630 | Gross: $9.97M

14. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Approved | 128 min | Drama

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands

Votes: 9,583

15. Matewan (1987)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham

Votes: 8,927 | Gross: $1.68M

16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 8,417

17. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Approved | 141 min | Drama, Romance

A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 5,391

18. Nothing But a Man (1964)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster

Votes: 2,004 | Gross: $0.02M

19. Some Mother's Son (1996)

R | 112 min | Drama, History

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara

Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $0.61M

20. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa, Kayoko Shiraishi

Votes: 3,381

21. The Wild Little Bunch (1973)

105 min | Drama

"The 14" or "Existance" has a mother of 14 children living in poor working class England falling sick and the children try to carry on as a family. Convincing acting from young actors raises this gritty tale above the horizon.

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Jack Wild, June Brown, Liz Edmiston, John Bailey

Votes: 303

22. Don't Tell (2017)

110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

With help from a local lawyer, a young abuse survivor finds the courage to speak out when having a voice is her only option.

Director: Tori Garrett | Stars: Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Sara West, Rachel Griffiths

Votes: 419

23. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)

R | 116 min | Drama, Romance

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean

Votes: 1,221 | Gross: $0.52M

24. Psycho from Texas (1975)

R | 89 min | Crime, Horror

A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his ... See full summary »

Directors: Jack Collins, Jim Feazell | Stars: John King III, Herschel Mays, Christian Feazell, Candy Dee

Votes: 372

25. 1000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story (2014 Video)

Not Rated | 99 min | Biography, Drama

Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importantly, off the court.

Director: Michael Levine | Stars: David Henrie, Luke Kleintank, Beau Bridges, Jean Louisa Kelly

Votes: 1,164

26. Jellyfish (2007)

Unrated | 78 min | Drama

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life... See full summary »

Directors: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban

Votes: 2,747 | Gross: $0.34M

27. Bisbee '17 (2018)

PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap

Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.12M

28. Stray (I) (2018)

104 min | Drama

In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts.

Director: Dustin Feneley | Stars: Luciane Buchanan, Kieran Charnock, Joel Fili, Arta Dobroshi

Votes: 362

29. The Divine Woman (1928)

80 min | Drama, Romance

Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran

Votes: 482 | Gross: $0.54M

30. That's My Man (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely

Votes: 163

31. Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)

TV-PG | 160 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie must overcome a wayward life of poverty and familial chaos to reach the pinnacle of stardom.

Stars: Joe Geary, Lee Whitlock, Twiggy, Ian McShane

Votes: 86

32. The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, Muriel Angelus

Votes: 122

33. The Glass House (2014)

95 min | Drama, Romance

Anyone thinking of having a child reflects on the emotional, moral, and practical implications of bringing a baby into this world. Follow three groups of individuals whose universes cross as they make the biggest decision of their lives.

Director: Steven Summers | Stars: Danielle Lozeau, Caroline Gauthier, Yousof Sultani, Dwayne Taylor

Votes: 16

34. Thoth (2002)

40 min | Documentary, Short, Music

Thoth is a street performer currently in New York. Thoth is an individual with a complicated life and background. Thoth plays on opera with a violin in a loincloth in Central Park. Thoth is.

Director: Sarah Kernochan | Stars: S.K. Thoth, Robert Janoff, Elayne Jones, George Kaufman

Votes: 244

35. Huk sa bagong pamumuhay (1953)

120 min | Action, Drama

Jose (Pempe) Padilla Jr. plays Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Joseph de Cordova is Maxie, the ... See full summary »

Director: Lamberto V. Avellana | Stars: Jose Padilla Jr., Celia Flor, Ven Medina, Rosa Aguirre

Votes: 11

36. The Shoe-Shine Boy (1962)

92 min | Drama

A small loustrakos manages with perseverance and the help of a lawyer to acquit his mother, unjustly accused of the death of her boss .

Director: Maria Plyta | Stars: Dimitris Papamichael, Miranda Kounelaki, Rita Myrat, Despo Diamantidou

Votes: 215

37. Into the Woods (2008)

5 min | Short, Thriller

Into the Woods is a thriller set in an ordinary and very real environment, where a family of three encounter a stranger in the woods, who struggles to tell them something vitally important.

Director: Matt Taabu | Stars: Branko Tomovic, Penny Capper, John Barber, Bradley Goff

Votes: 93

38. Bonds of Blood (1997–1998)

Biography, Drama

The prominent Xu family of Guangzhou, from the late Qing Dynasty era through to the 20th century.

Stars: Winston Chao, Pei-Pei Cheng, Jialing Hao, Mei-tian He

Votes: 10

39. Broken Things (2002)

15 min | Drama, Short

A young boy's love for the piano offers escape from his parents disintegrating marriage and the bullies at school.

Director: Vincent Lambe | Stars: Diarmuid Noyes, Eamonn Hunt, Bernadette McKenna, Marian Reece

Votes: 393

40. Conjectural (2019)

Not Rated | 37 min | Short, Action, Drama

An independent filmmaker struggles to balance his college studies, knack for stunts and personal life.

Director: Achyut Prashast Singh | Star: Achyut Prashast Singh

41. E! True Hollywood Story (1996– )
Episode: Jack Nicholson (2005)

TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography

A former B-movie actor became the most Oscar nominated actor in history.

Stars: Jack Nicholson, Nancy Meyers, Martin Landau, John Herman Shaner

Votes: 47

42. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Robert Redford: Hollywood Outlaw (2000)

TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Robert Redford has dazzled movie audiences for nearly 40 years-yet his love of privacy and low-key demeanor have made him an uncommonly mysterious figure.

Stars: Harry Smith, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, James Spada

Votes: 195

43. P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode: Famille interdite (2007)

Crime, Thriller

Agathe and Chloé go to the apartment of a Moroccan family where there is a struggle between Bilal Benasser and his father Hicham Benasser who is under judicial control for violence against ... See full summary »

Director: Claire de la Rochefoucauld | Stars: Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido, Raphaëlle Lubansu

44. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Blutige Ernte (2013)

TV-G | 25 min | Crime, Drama

Maja Petrescu has come back to the farm of the Erl family.She is received by Leo Gruber who announces her that she will live in the caravan.Marius Radu told Maja that she should not come ... See full summary »

Director: Ulrich Zrenner | Stars: Jan-Gregor Kremp, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 34

45. 24: Live Another Day (2014)
Episode: Day 9: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (2014)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tensions between Heller and PM Davies boil over, and one of them decides to take matters into his own hands. Jack proposes a plan to locate Margot by using someone unexpected as his bait. Jordan raises suspicions about Kate's husband.

Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Yvonne Strahovski, Tate Donovan, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Votes: 1,345

46. When They See Us (2019)
Episode: Part Three (2019)

TV-MA | 73 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Antron, Yusef, Kevin and Raymond struggle being behind bars. They eventually are let out and have a hard time adjusting to life outside.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Marquis Rodriguez

Votes: 5,283

47. When They See Us (2019)
Episode: Part Four (2019)

TV-MA | 88 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Korey is in adult prison and struggles with it. Eventually, the real truth comes out about what really happened. Events that had been ignored finally come to light.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Jharrel Jerome

Votes: 7,043