Movies like On 'E'
If On 'E''s mix of single mother, all black cast and motherhood stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what On 'E''s fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Forge
2024 · Directed by Alex Kendrick · 123 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: single mother · From the same decade (2020s)
19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man.
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The Florida Project
2017 · Directed by Sean Baker · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: single mother
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
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20th Century Women
2016 · Directed by Mike Mills · 119 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: single mother
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion.
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Akeelah and the Bee
2006 · Directed by Doug Atchison · 113 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: single mother
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya.
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Mothers' Instinct
2024 · Directed by Benoît Delhomme · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: motherhood · From the same decade (2020s)
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…
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The Lost Daughter
2021 · Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal · 122 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: motherhood · From the same decade (2020s)
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
2025 · Directed by Mary Bronstein · 113 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: motherhood · From the same decade (2020s)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.