Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sick-mother"

51. Silent Möbius (1991)

50 min | Animation, Action, Drama

The future police has a unique division: the Attack Mystification Department. The operatives have unique training... and talents! Set to stop the weird happenings going on in the city, and discover whats behind the unknown.

Directors: Kazuo Tomisawa, Michitaka Kikuchi | Stars: Naoko Matsui, Toshiko Fujita, Gara Takashima, Hiromi Tsuru

Votes: 267

52. Let's Be Evil (2016)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A vision of augmented reality.

Director: Martin Owen | Stars: Sophie Willis, Jules Brown, Elizabeth Morris, Chase Bowman

Votes: 5,586

53. Smart Woman (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 510

54. The Road Home for Christmas (2019 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Lindsey and Wes, rival musicians who perform in a dueling-piano show, suddenly find themselves without a gig on Christmas Eve and decide to road-trip to their neighboring hometowns together.

Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Marla Sokoloff, Rob Mayes, Marie Osmond, Jacob Young

Votes: 800

55. The Brute (1953)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler

Votes: 2,264

56. Ghost Train (2006)

92 min | Horror

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female ... See full summary »

Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto

Votes: 918

57. Lantern Hill (1989 TV Movie)

111 min | Drama, Family

Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930's, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.

Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Mairon Bennett, Sam Waterston, Patricia Phillips, Zoe Caldwell

Votes: 325

58. Blondie Johnson (1933)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama

The story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Directors: Ray Enright, Lucien Hubbard | Stars: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins, Earle Foxe

Votes: 789

59. From Mexico with Love (2009)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, Family

A washed-up trainer takes a self-destructive young boxer under his wing.

Director: Jimmy Nickerson | Stars: Kuno Becker, Steven Bauer, Stephen Lang, Alex Nesic

Votes: 585 | Gross: $0.55M

60. Liverpool (2008)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

A merchant sailor returns to his home in Tierra del Fuego after spending most of his life at sea.

Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal

Votes: 1,204

61. Annaluise & Anton (1999)

107 min | Family, Comedy, Drama

Pünktchen and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public... See full summary »

Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Juliane Köhler, August Zirner

Votes: 1,064

62. My Brother (2006)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

My Brother is an inner city story of two impoverished boys and mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation.

Director: Anthony Lover | Stars: Vanessa Williams, Tatum O'Neal, Nashawn Kearse, Christopher Scott

Votes: 362 | Gross: $0.03M

63. Donkeys (2010)

78 min | Comedy, Drama

Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past ... See full summary »

Director: Morag McKinnon | Stars: James Cosmo, Tony Curran, Kate Dickie, Martin Compston

Votes: 237

64. A nyomozó (2008)

107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition of a stranger to murder someone he doesn't know a thing about.

Director: Attila Gigor | Stars: Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó, Csaba Czene

Votes: 2,755

65. Police (1916)

34 min | Comedy, Short

Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, John Rand

Votes: 2,009

66. Silenced Tree (2020)

118 min | Drama

Hayati is a small-town literature teacher and a one hit wonder author who tries helplessly to hold on to his past: his shattering marriage, his sick old mother, a decaying walnut tree and ... See full summary »

Director: Faysal Soysal | Stars: Serdar Orçin, Sezin Akbasogullari, Mert Yavuzcan, Kubra Kip

Votes: 488

67. Mamá, soy Paquito (1984)

TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, Family

Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.

Director: Sergio Véjar | Stars: Adalberto Martínez, Blanca Guerra, Frank Moro, Paquito Cuevas

Votes: 56

68. Between Two Women (1967)

88 min | Drama

After two years at sea, a conscientious captain returns home to his young wife and ailing mother. However, a mysterious visitor connected to a dear friend suddenly emerges, threatening to ruin everything he has worked so hard to achieve.

Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Dimitris Papamichael, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Jenny Roussea, Pamfili Sadorinaiou

Votes: 38

69. One Life (1958)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Astruc | Stars: Maria Schell, Christian Marquand, Pascale Petit, Louis Arbessier

Votes: 356

70. Chiquidrácula (1986)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A kid is tired of seeing his drunk grandfather wondering the streets. One day he sees a Dracula's wax figure, and gets the idea of scaring his grandpa dressing up as one.

Director: Julio Aldama | Stars: Adalberto Martínez, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Tere Velázquez, Carlos Espejel

Votes: 38

71. Heart Full of Rain (1997 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A young man returns to the family farm after being gone for six years. But it is not until he fights shoulder to shoulder with his father to save the farm from a flood that his father ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Richard Crenna, Carroll Baker, Gabriel Mann

Votes: 124

72. Santa Chikita (1953)

92 min | Comedy

A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.

Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Stefanos Stratigos, Dina Stathatou

Votes: 416

73. Memorias de Leticia Valle (1979)

101 min | Drama

Based on the 1945 Memorias de Leticia Valle Memoirs of Leticia Valle is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction.

Director: Miguel Ángel Rivas | Stars: Ramiro Oliveros, Jeannine Mestre, Fernando Rey, Emma Suárez

Votes: 42

74. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra

Votes: 383

75. Angela Markado (1980)

150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A waitress is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by five men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Hilda Koronel, Johnny Delgado, Celia Rodriguez, Rez Cortez

Votes: 40

76. Quinto patio (1970)

94 min | Drama, Crime

A poor amateur singer is deeply in love with his boss's daughter, but the spoiled girl rejects him because he has no fortune.

Director: Federico Curiel | Stars: Manuel López Ochoa, Jacqueline Andere, Norma Lazareno, Rogelio Guerra

Votes: 13

77. Complacency (2018–2019)

72 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Two detectives interrogate a woman, with a dark and mysterious past, whom they believe may have knowledge that could lead to the capture of a vicious serial killer.

Stars: Kathryn Kozody, Michele Wienecke, Troy Greenwood, Gin Fedotov

Votes: 17

78. Legendary Idol Eriko (1989– )

24 min | Animation, Drama, Music

Erika is the daughter of a record and media company. Things turn a rye and an on off rivalry begins as Erika tries to deal with becoming an idol herself and learning how to deal with other ... See full summary »

Stars: Eriko Tamura, Akiko Yajima, Ai Satô, Hiroyuki Shibamoto

Votes: 74

79. So Little Time (1952)

88 min | Drama, Romance, War

During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.

Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Maria Schell, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat

Votes: 268

80. Starting Over (2014)

94 min | Drama

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love,... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Nishihara | Stars: Mika Akizuki, Nina Endô, Junki Tozuka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Votes: 47

81. We Once Were Tide (2011)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Set on the Isle of Wight, the film tells the story of Anthony and Kyle, and their last night together as Kyle moves away leaving Anthony to look after his terminally ill mother. Poetic in ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Bradbury | Stars: Alexander Scott, Tristan Bernays, Mandy Aldridge

Votes: 604

82. The Christmas Angel (1904)

10 min | Short, Drama

A family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Rachel Gillet, Georges Méliès

Votes: 256

83. The Demon (1972)

8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Two brothers who live with their sick mother go deer hunting, but encounter a demon.

Director: Kihachirô Kawamoto

Votes: 338

84. Soundless Wind Chime (2009)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.

Director: Kit Hung | Stars: Yulai Lü, Bernhard Bulling, Marie Omlin, Gilles Tschudi

Votes: 886

85. Esa (1966)

62 min | Drama

Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to ... See full summary »

Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Natsue Hanaha, Senjo Ichiriki, Jiro Kenda, Machiko Matsumoto

Votes: 71

86. A Small Act (2010)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary

A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.

Director: Jennifer Arnold | Stars: Hilde Back, Patrick Kimani, Chris Mburu

Votes: 365

87. María y los niños pobres (2010)

80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »

Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio

Votes: 24

88. 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

89. The Miser's Heart (1911)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Ynez Seabury, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Hill Mailes

Votes: 301

90. Independencia (2009)

77 min | Drama

Mimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines.

Director: Raya Martin | Stars: Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani, Alessandra De Rossi, Mika Aguilos

Votes: 248

91. Sambá (2017)

TV-MA | 87 min | Drama, Sport

Sambá is a sports drama about redemption through the metaphor of life and boxing.

Directors: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán | Stars: Laura Gómez, Algenis Perez Soto, Héctor Sierra, Jalsen Santana

Votes: 170

92. Byla ne byla (1986)

64 min | Drama, Music

A teenage boy gets into trouble flirting with a pretty teacher, then redeems himself defending a girl attacked by goons in a park. He falls for another teacher's daughter, a dancer, and meets the hot teacher under different circumstances.

Director: Valeri Fedosov | Stars: Grigoriy Kataev, Tina Laptev, Aleksey Zharkov, Valentina Telichkina

Votes: 11

93. Cara a Cara (1967)

72 min | Drama

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.

Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Helena Ignez, Antero de Oliveira, Paulo Gracindo, Paulo Padilha

Votes: 81

94. What Grown-Ups Know (2004)

30 min | Drama, Short

A bizarre love triangle between a teenage boy, his childlike, ailing mother, and the lonely manager of a desolate caravan park.

Director: Jonathan Wald | Stars: Stephen James King, Susie Lindeman, Daniel Roberts

Votes: 129

95. Weak Species (2009)

34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food-chain. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When... See full summary »

Director: Dan Faltz | Stars: Erik Smith, Brendan Bradley, James Eckhouse, Lyn Alicia Henderson

Votes: 151

96. MOTH (Man of the House) (2014)

R | 10 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

A story about a 9 year old boy who tries to take care of his sick mother in a world that has fallen into chaos.

Director: O-T Fagbenle | Stars: Tom Burgering, Tamzin Outhwaite, Emma Cunniffe, Steve Medlin

Votes: 30

97. The Heavy Load (2015)

19 min | Short, Drama

The story of an 11-year-old boy, who wants to help his sick mother by becoming an actor in a major motion picture.

Director: Joshua J. Krull | Stars: Marc Dresander, Tracey Grey, Marvin W. Jones, Nadine Heidenreich

Votes: 23

98. Ai zai shen ye shi (2020)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Ling Fei is a young woman, who gives dance lessons during the day to earn money to pay for her sick mother's medical expenses.

Director: Jimmy Liu | Stars: Milla An, Michael Tao, Yijun Zeng, Ada Wang Yifei

99. Immure (2016)

20 min | Short, Horror, Romance

A young man risks it all when the repercussions of keeping his sick mother alive leads to a lost soul . .

Director: Conscian Morgan | Stars: Victoria Broom, Natalie Oliver, Martine Richards, Michael Hanratty

Votes: 74

100. Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)

96 min | Biography, Drama, War

As a young man, Keisuke Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) carried his mother on a handcart across a mountain. He grew up as a hotblooded young man and was monitored by the military. He then joined ... See full summary »

Director: Keiichi Hara | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Mayu Matsuoka, Yûko Tanaka, Ryô Kase

Votes: 120