I was recently having a conversation with a couple of coworkers who are also movie enthusiasts about Mother's Day movies. As a result I was inspired to come up with this list. My criteria for the films on this list, in my opinion, feature for better or worse a "strong" mother figure and/or the strong influence of a mother that influences the characters/plot.
Mother's Day (although I haven't seen it, this is an obvious choice)
Mr. Mom (a great Father's Day and Mother's Day film)
Australia
Any of the Beowulf pictures
Chocolat
Bambi
Dumbo
Any of the Cinderella pictures
The Conjuring
Coraline
Dear Frankie
The Fourth Kind
Edge of Seventeen
Land Before Time
Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas
Freaky Friday
Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Any of the Parent Trap movies
Because I Say So
Something's Gotta Give
Lady in White
Any of the Alien films
Jaws (in the book, after Brody blows up the shark, a baby shark swims out of the dead shark's body therefore revealing that the shark was in fact a mother)
Jaws 3
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Mermaids
Psycho
Mommie Dearest
Miss Meadows
The Brood
Rosemary's Baby
Brave
Scream 2
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking 2
Bridget Jones Baby
An Unfinished Life
Where the Heart Is
Practical Magic
Sleepwalkers
Silent Hill
Mortal Instruments
The Family that Preys
Waterboy
Only the Lonely
Cellular
Enough
Maid in Manhattan
Hope Floats
Insidious Ch. 1
Insidious Ch. 2
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Overboard
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Sound of Music
Ghostbusters 2
All of the Terminator movies besides Terminator Genisys
What Lies Beneath
Tangled
Woman in Black
Yours, Mine, and Ours
The King and I
Anna and the King
The Manchurian Candidate
All versions of Carrie
Halloween: H20
White Oleander
The Others
Anywhere but Here
Friday the 13th (the original)
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Heartbreakers
Passionada
The Seventh Sign
Striptease
The Prophecy 2
Drop Dead Fred
The Women (the original)
Bless the Child
The Bad Seed
Boy Next Door
Monster-In-Law
Prozac Nation
The Blind Side
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Chloe
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Princess Diaries
The Forgotten
Mask
Ju-on: The Grudge
The Grudge
Ringu
The Ring
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Grace
The Haunting of Julia
Juno
Dark Water
A Haunting in Connecticut
Momma
Stepmom
All versions of Pride and Prejudice
Snatched
Erin Brockovich
Jurassic Park 3
Spanglish
Steel Magnolias
Bad Moms
A Bad Moms Christmas
The Babadook
Moms' Night Out
I Don't Know How She Does It
Carnage
Kidnap
Monster's Ball
Maniac
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Joy Luck Club
Knocked Up
Life As We Know It
Nine Months
Terms of Endearment
Mrs. Winterbourne
The Piano
Troop Beverly Hills
A Holiday Engagement
Changeling
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