The most touching films for Mother's Day

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Every year in Russia, Mother's Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of November. This year the holiday falls on November 30th. Do not forget to congratulate your beloved mothers (or accept congratulations yourself) Well, for the mood we decided to make a selection of films about mothers and for mothers.

Annushka

The 1959 drama, directed by Boris Barnett, has not yet lost its power, charm and relevance. The film is about Anna Denisov, who accompanied her husband to the front and was left alone with three children. Despite all the hardships, hunger, poverty, bleak gray everyday life and bullets over her head, Anna was able to protect her children and create a small, carefree and reliable world for them.

The woman remained strong even after the death of her husband and everything so that her children were happy. So the fragment from Nekrasov's poem "There are women in Russian villages" fully corresponds to the description of the heroine.

Once Upon a Time 20 Years Later

A Soviet melodramatic comedy starring Natalya Gundareva tells the story of the life of a mother with many children and her family. 20 years later, on a television program dedicated to school graduates, the class of the main character, Nadezhda Kruglova, meets. Each of the graduates will have to answer two questions: "What have you already done?" and "What else are you waiting for in your life?"

It is difficult for Nadezhda to unequivocally answer the questions asked, because there are no minor moments in her life.

It is difficult for Nadezhda to unequivocally answer the questions asked, because there are no minor moments in her life. The picture is constructed fragmentarily from the heroine's memories: here are the difficulties of upbringing, and experiences, and material instability. But the main thing in the film is a look at the world of a mother with many children and her ability to get out of all difficulties.

Girl from the city

War drama of 1984 by Oleg Nikolaevsky, based on the story of Lyubov Voronkova and suitable for family viewing. The film is about a seven-year-old girl Valya, who lost her parents and brother during the war. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train, spent the night in a haystack and nearly froze to death. The next morning Valya was discovered by Daria, a resident of the village. The girl warmed up, fed the orphan, and despite the fact that Daria had three of her children and a lot of problems, she left Valya in her house …

Cook

This melodrama became the debut work of director Yaroslav Chizhevsky. The main character of the film is a wealthy 38-year-old woman named Lena. She achieved a lot: a dizzying career, stability in her personal life … But for all her well-being, Lena realizes that she has missed something important in life. Having moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow, the girl gets a job in social service.

Another heroine of the film is a six-year-old girl, Cook, who lives all alone in the janitor's room of a dilapidated evicted house. Cook does everything herself - she goes to the store, prepares food, and watches over the house. One day Lena meets Kuku and decides to help her …

Italian

The Italian is the nickname of the six-year-old pupil of the orphanage Vanya Solntsev. An Italian childless couple decided to adopt him. It would seem, what could be better? But Vanya wants to find his own mother by all means. The boy takes a train and goes to the other end of the region, where the friendly guard of the Children's Home tells him the cherished street, house and apartment … Vanya will have to go through a lot before he finds his mother and finds happiness.

Stepmother

Children perceive the new darling of their father with hostility, and Isabelle is trying with all her might to become a friend to them.

In this film, the play of some of the most talented actresses in Hollywood - Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon - is intertwined. Luke Harrison - a middle-aged lawyer leaves his wife Jackie for a young girl Isabelle. She works as a photographer for a well-known magazine and earns good money. Everything was fine until Luke started taking the children to his place for the weekend: 12-year-old Anne and 7-year-old Ben. Children perceive the new darling of their father with hostility, and Isabelle is trying with all her might to become a friend to them. Everything changes when Isabelle forges a relationship with Jackie …

Invisible side

Sports drama starring Sandra Bullock. The film is about a young African-American Michael Oher, who once again lost his home, and who was taken in by a wealthy family. Thanks to the efforts and support of the family, new opportunities open up for the guy: he begins to play American football, first at school, then at the university, and then becomes a world famous athlete …

The film is based on the true fate of Michael Oer, a player of the Baltimore Ravens. The plot of the film is based on the book The Blind Side: The Evolution of the Game by Michael Lewis.

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Despite all the difficulties, Beverly decided to leave school and go to college. Time passed, the girl got married, became addicted to drugs and vegetated in poverty (and this with a child in her arms). However, having pulled herself together, Beverly overcame all the troubles and difficulties, raised her son and wrote a book based on which this film was shot … The role of Beverly D'Onofrio was played by Drew Barrymore.

My guardian angel

Anna Fitzgerald was conceived in vitro with one purpose - to be an organ supplier for her leukemic sister, Kate. For many years they took blood, bone marrow and plasma from Anna … When Kate's kidney failed, Anna had to give hers, but she does not agree with this state of affairs. The girl goes to a well-known lawyer to sue her own parents. How will this dramatic story of an 11-year-old girl end?

Fashionable Mom

After the death of her sister, the carefree party girl Helen takes care of three nephews: fifteen-year-old Audrey, ten-year-old Henry and five-year-old Sarah. Each of them has its own character, its own problems. Helen is forced to give up discos, evening cocktails and a career in the modeling business, but so far the children do not perceive her as a serious educator …