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1) Little Woods
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ollie is barely getting by, an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb, who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex.
3) Mister Foe
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, Hallam Foe instead finds himself searching the rooftops of Edinburgh for love, while his knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals his darkest fears and peculiar desires.
4) Hagazussa
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young fifteenth-century goatherd slowly begins to discover an ancient presence deep in the dark woods years after her mother's horrifying demise. In a time when pagan beliefs or witches spread fear into the minds of rural folk, the film aims to explore the thin line between ancient beliefs, magic, and delusional psychosis.
5) Love Sarah
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, nineteen-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi. These three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts, and differences to honor the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London store filled with love, hope, and colorful pastries...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
8) Sundown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy man, on vacation in Acapulco with his family, receives the news of the death of his mother, he experiences a life crisis.
9) Separation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Strange things start happening around an imaginative eight-year-old girl, after her mother is tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident.
10) Run the race
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Reeling from his mother's death and his father's abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers' ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach and his dreams on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.
11) Ride the eagle
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his estranged mother, Lief finds that he must complete her elaborate to-do list before he can move into her cabin in Yosemite.
12) For one more day
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
13) Nonames
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, Kevin decides to make a life for himself in his childhood home in spite of his father's decision to move. In the wake of tragedy, Kevin must end his extended adolescence or lose the things he holds most dear. Haunted by unsettled scores, it becomes clear that he must leave the town he loves in order to save himself from it. Kevin discovers a new beginning is only a bus ride away.
14) Zubeidaa
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Hindi
Description
The story of a young man's quest to recover the memory of the mother he never knew and to piece together her life from the memories of those who knew her.
15) Blue crush 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dana, a killer surfer from California, travels to the breathtaking coasts of South Africa, determined to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing the legendary Jeffrey's Bay. With nothing but her mom's journal as a guide and a fun-loving group of surf fanatics watching her back, Dana faces epic waves, tough locals and her own fears in this unforgettable surf odyssey.
16) One summer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of his wife, a father who makes a miraculous recovery from a life-threatening disease travels with his son and daughter to her hometown at the beach, hoping they can find some healing.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines"--Container.
19) Pearl diver
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A complicated father-son relationship resurfaces after a mother's death. The kindhearted son has devoted his life to winning the affection of his stubborn and opinionated father. His efforts to care for him are met with hostility and rebuff. Eventually, the father breaks down and shares his true feelings with his son.
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