Happy Mothers Day + 'Mother' Recommendations

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

1. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
2. Y Tu Mamá Tambíen (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
3. Mother (Bong Joon Ho, 2009)
4. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
5. mother! (Darren Aronfosky, 2017)
6. Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma, 2021)
7. Serial Mom (John Waters, 1994)
8. 107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes, 2021)
9. The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, 2015)
10. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar, 2021)
11. Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)
12. 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)

Comments

[Mr Ripley79]

Mother's Boys with Jamie Lee in a rare bad girl role,not someone you'd want for a mother but she's a lot of fun in it.

[Finbar McBride]

Alternatives - actressing highlights

You’ll Like My Mother (Lamont Johnson, 1972)
Patty Duke and Rosemary Murphy

‘night, Mother (Tom Moore, 1976)
Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft

Mother (Albert Brooks, 1996)
Debbie Reynolds

Andre’s Mother (Deborah Reinisch, 1990)
Sada Thompson and Sylvia Sidney

I Remember Mama (George Stevens, 1948)
Irene Dunne, Ellen Corby, Barbara Bel Geddes

The Good Mother (Leonard Nimoy, 1988)
Diane Keaton

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Michael Ritchie, 1993)
Holly Hunter

[Peter]

Great list! Also: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a forgotten early 90s classic!

[TomG]

Another guilty pleasure is Throw Mama From the Train

[rdf]

Nicole looks like Renee Zellweger!!!????