abandoned by mother movies

Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
6.233 / 10

Adventure, Drama

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make...

Hanging Up (2000)
5.2 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly...

The Burning Plain (2008)
6.578 / 10

Drama, Romance, Crime

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the...

Mrs. Soffel (1984)
6.1 / 10

Drama, Romance

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting...

Trucker (2008)
6.1 / 10

Drama

Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, Len,...

Homecoming (1996)
6.9 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their...

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, Crime

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

Close-Knit (2017)
7.1 / 10

Family, Drama

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

The Sea of Grass (1947)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Western, Romance

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

The Miracle (1991)
5.8 / 10

Drama, Romance

Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild...

Like a House on Fire (2021)
7.2 / 10

Drama

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman...

October (2010)
6.3 / 10

Drama

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles....

Undercard (1969)
0 / 10

Drama

After abandoning her son, a female boxing trainer rises from the ashes to coach him in the biggest fight of his career.

The Stork Nest (2013)
7 / 10

A small clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture begins accepting anonymous drop-offs of unwanted newborn babies at a residential building. The name of the...

Las Toreras (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

Jackie Brutsche tries to unravel the dark secrets of her family and answer unanswered questions about her mother.