For the Mom who is a budding cinephile…

PARALLEL MOTHERS directed by Pedro Almodovar, 2021

Watch the Oscar-nominated Spanish language film from acclaimed director Pedro Almodovar. Fresh off its theatre run and a new release on Angelika Anywhere !

Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.

For the Mom who loves Meryl Streep…

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE directed by Mike Nichols, 1990

Written by Carrie Fisher, based on her semi-autobiographical novel. This film about mothers and daughters is the perfect Mother’s Day pick, featuring Meryl Streep in an early comedic role.

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother, Doris Mann, who was once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for her as she has struggled for years to get out of Doris’ shadow, who still treats her like a child. Despite these problems and further ones involving the men in in her life, she can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.

For the Mom who loves Rom-Coms…

HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS directed by Michael Showalter, 2016

Show your Mom a feel good Rom-Com she may have not seen yet. In this charming movie starring Sally Field,  a self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

When Doris Miller meets John Fremont, her company’s hip new art director, sparks fly-at least for Doris. In the cluttered house she shared with her late mother, Doris mines the Internet for information on her one-and-only, guided by the 13-year-old granddaughter of her best pal Roz. When Doris begins showing up at John’s regular haunts, she wins over his Williamsburg friends. Her new life brings Doris a thrilling perspective, but also creates a rift between her and her longtime friends and family, who believe she’s making a fool of herself over a guy half her age. Eager for all the experiences she has missed out on, Doris throws caution to the wind and follows her heart for the very first time.

For the literature loving Mom…

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE directed by Joe Wright, 2005

Is your Mom a big Jane Austen fan? Watch the film adaptation of one of Ms. Austen’s most beloved books and get lost in the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.

In this adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) lives with her mother, father and sisters in the English countryside. As the eldest, she faces mounting pressure from her parents to marry. When the outspoken Elizabeth is introduced to the handsome and upper-class Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), sparks fly. Although there is obvious chemistry between the two, Darcy’s overly reserved nature threatens the fledgling relationship.

For the Mom who’s an Anglophile…

THE LADY IN THE VAN directed by Nicholas Hytner, 2016

Grab a warm cup of tea and put on this movie, starring veteran English actress Maggie Smith. The Lady In The Van is a heartwarming story about an eccentric woman living in a van in London.

This movie tells the true story of Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings’) strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd (Dame Maggie Smith), an eccentric homeless woman who Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden house. She stayed there for fifteen years. As the story develops, Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.

For the Mom who loves thrillers…

A SIMPLE FAVOR directed by Paul Fieg, 2018

This stylish female-led thriller/comedy starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick is directed by comedian and director Paul Fieg. A Simple Favor is the perfect choice for the Mom looking for a little mystery.

Stephanie is a widowed, single mother who works as a vlogger in Connecticut. Her best friend, Emily, seems to have it all – a successful career, a loving family and a glamorous lifestyle. When Emily mysteriously disappears one day, Stephanie launches her own investigation by digging into her friend’s past – and finding a few surprises along the way.

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