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Mother’s Day Most Memorable Movies

Are you scratching your head trying to figure out what your mother would like to have for mother’s day besides the usual flowers, chocolates, or cards? Share a “Mother’s Day Movie” with her! The below movies are some of the best Mother’s Day movies available, and we are sure that at least one of them will be a treat for your mother!

Before giving away the names of these movies, do you think that you can guess what they are?

• 1. The title character (Barbara Stanwyck) in this heartbreaker is a lower-class woman who marries an upper-class man. The marriage doesn't work, but they have a lovely daughter, and Stella dotes on her. Eventually, Stella makes a sacrifice to try to ensure her daughter's happiness. There's no question Stella is well-meaning, but did she do the right thing?


• 2. During the Great Depression, the Joads are evicted Oklahoma sharecroppers who move to California, only to encounter a new set of obstacles.
  


• 3. An emotionally powerful drama, this coming-of-age tale set in San Francisco circa 1910 is narrated by a young Norwegian-American named Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes). She looks back on her family's ups and downs, focusing particularly on her mother (Irene Dunne).
  


• 4. Sabrajaya (Karuna Bannerjee), a mother of two, must serve as the anchor for a family living in poverty in rural India. With her young children wearing rags and threatened with starvation, she is relentless in trying to give them every tiny advantage.
  


• 5. This is a bittersweet, heartwarming story of an unusual mother-daughter relationship, Shirley MacLaine plays Aurora Greenway, a widowed mother often at odds with her rebellious daughter (Debra Winger).
  


• 6. Mothers and daughters in the Chinese-American community are at the heart of this drama. There are four mothers who grew up in China before the civil war of 1946-49, but their four daughters are very Americanized young adults.
  


• 7. After his second divorce, a science-fiction novelist (Albert Brooks) moves in with his mother (Debbie Reynolds). They have difficulty getting along, but the experience turns out to be good for both of them. This movie gave me insight into the relationship between a mother and her adult son.


• 8. The arrival of single mother Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her small daughter transforms a small French town in the 1950s. Binoche plays free-spirited Vianne, who opens a chocolate shop during Lent and overcomes the stiff opposition of many of the townspeople when her confections help several of the locals solve their problems.