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  • Marty picture
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    Marty (1955)

    A shy, mother-dominated Bronx butcher (Ernest Borgnine) finds his soul mate in a lonely...

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    The Bad Seed (1956)

    Odd fatal accidents lead a woman (Nancy Kelly) to realize that her 8-year-old daughter (Patty...

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    The Chalk Garden (1964)

    A teenage girl grows more and more attached to a fantasy world due to a feeling that her mother and...

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    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

    Forced to visit her estranged mother (Ellen Burstyn) in Louisiana, a New York playwright (Sandra...

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    Ocean's Eleven (1960)

    Veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division devise an elaborate plot to simultaneously rob five casinos...

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    Psycho (1960)

    A woman (Janet Leigh) on the run stops at a 12-cabin motel with showers, run by mother-fixated...

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    Blue Hawaii (1961)

    A pineapple tycoon's rebellious son (Elvis Presley) turns island tour guide with his girlfriend...

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    No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

    A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track...

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    Shy People (1988)

    A New York journalist fed up with city life and concerned for the welfare of her trendy daughter,...

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    Postcards From the Edge (1990)

    A drug-detoxed Hollywood actress (Meryl Streep) moves in with her boozing actress mother (Shirley...

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    Fierce People (2007)

    A drug addict (Diane Lane) and her teenage son (Anton Yelchin) spend a fateful summer at a...

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    Susan Slade (1961)

    A poor writer (Troy Donahue) rivals a rich man's son for a young woman (Connie Stevens) with a...

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    Throw Momma From the Train (1987)

    Two writers (Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal) mistake tit-for-tat murders: one's ex-wife for the other's...

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    Illegal Tender

    Cuando un enemigo del pasado finalmente los encuentra, una madre (Wanda De Jesus) y su hijo (Rick...

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    Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

    His adopted son's apparent genius sends a married, middle-aged sportswriter (Woody Allen) after the...

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    Secrets & Lies (1996)

    A black London optometrist meets her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker, and...

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    Barefoot in the Park (1967)

    A conservative lawyer (Robert Redford) marries a vivacious woman (Jane Fonda), and the two move into...

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    Autumn Sonata (1979)

    Following the death of her lover, a world-reknowned concert pianist returns to Sweden to visit the...

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    Blueberry Hill (1988)

    A widow's (Carrie Snodgress) daughter (Jennifer Rubin) in 1956 California learns from her piano...

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    Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

    A witch's (Kim Novak) warlock brother (Jack Lemmon) helps a San Francisco publisher (James Stewart)...

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    Two Women (1961)

    Moroccan soldiers rape a mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleanora Brown) leaving World War II...

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    Twins (1988)

    A genetically perfected specimen (Arnold Schwarzenegger) meets his pint-size, wise-guy long-lost...

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    Pokemon 3 The Movie: Spell of the Unown (2001)

    Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Misty must rescue a little girl and her mother from mystical forces....

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    Apres Lui

    After her son's death, a woman obsesses over his friend.

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    Applause (1930)

    Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) moribund sound-film industry with...

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    I Remember Mama (1948)

    A writer (Barbara Bel Geddes) recalls her Norwegian mother (Irene Dunne) and family in circa-1900...

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    The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

    Gambling-den boss Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson) drags her British ex-lover's (Walter Huston)...

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    Stella Dallas (1937)

    A working-class woman (Barbara Stanwyck) lets her daughter (Anne Shirley) go to her rich father...

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    The White Cliffs of Dover

    A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son...

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    Garbo Talks (1984)

    A New Yorker's (Anne Bancroft) son (Ron Silver) tries to grant her last wish: to meet elusive movie...