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Apryl Lee's avatar

Ladybird!

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Kaitlyn Greenidge's avatar

realizing the photograph maybe qualifies. here

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Maya Cade's avatar

joy luck club!

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HR Smith's avatar

Moment of unease upon realizing that I have mostly have learned about classic mother/daughter films not by directly watching them, but by watching drag number upon drag number based on them.

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Heidi's avatar

Mermaids, Dolores Claiborne.

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Swati Khurana's avatar

Eve’s Bayou (so many relationships!)

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Daryl Fort's avatar

Several come to mind, immediately....and I'm disappointed to not be able to think of more with black women, frankly. But: "Secrets and Lies", "Please Give", "Crooklyn", "Carrie(?)", "Terms of Endearment"(showing my age), "Black Swan"....lotte dudes directing.

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Cally Martin's avatar

Oh I loved Secrets and Lies. It was a slow burn but really packed a punch that I can still feel twenty years after I watched it

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Yessie's avatar

Joy Luck Club!!! and not a film but I've started watching Gilmore Girls and have been pleasantly surprised.

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Yeye's Meditation's's avatar

Pinky, and Imitation of Life, Daughters of the Dust, Steel Magnolias.

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Linda Ocasio's avatar

Mildred Pierce, Volver

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Keri Korteling's avatar

all about my mother

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Darise JeanBaptiste's avatar

Miss Juneteenth

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angela's avatar

Mommy Dearest works! “No wire hangers” & “Christina, bring me the axe”...

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Amy Lyons's avatar

Terms of Endearment, 'Night Mother.

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Stacey's avatar

Terms of Endearment

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Jess's avatar

Terms of Endearment, just rewatched it.

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Alexander Chee's avatar

High Heels, by Almodovar

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Darian's avatar

Crooklyn. Carolyn and Troy.

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L. Clinton's avatar

I Will Follow (Ava DuVernay)

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Meg Langford's avatar

Ooh... so many! Volver (Almodóvar), Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Fast Color (Julia Hart), High Tide (Gillian Armstrong), Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash), The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert), Saving Face (Alice Wu),

and can’t forget Postcards from the Edge (Mike Nichols classic).

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Swati Khurana's avatar

Not a film but “Little Fires Everywhere” TV show

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Building a Dream's avatar

Baby Boom, I think mostly because I remember watching it with my mom all the time when I was little. Need to rewatch!

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E G's avatar

little miss sunshine

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Kathy Pories's avatar

Grey Gardens

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Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez's avatar

Mama

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Rebecca Ackermann's avatar

Chinatoooooowwwwnnn

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Rosalie Chan's avatar

Lady bird!

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Ori's avatar

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE!

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Claire Cox's avatar

Episode 1 of We’re Here

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apelish's avatar

Andrea Arnold's devastating "Fishtank"

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Lisa Lucas's avatar

Stella Dallas!

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Leah Creque's avatar

Miss Juneteenth

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ola's avatar

Beloved

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Martha Southgate's avatar

Also Gina Prince-Bythewood's Beyond the Lights has an interesting mother-daughter story as the B-story.

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Sheila Pundit's avatar

I love Girl in Progress with Eva Mendes and Ladybird

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LKV's avatar

Also Carrie??

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LKV's avatar

Some of these aren't centrally about mothers and daughters but in my mind resonate on the subject somehow: Anywhere But Here, Waitress, Little Women, Stepmom, and I second White Oleander for sure. I'm just now recognizing a Susan Sarandon theme...

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Jenn Baker's avatar

Terms of endearment. It stands the test of time.

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Kimberly at @missberlyreads's avatar

Fast Color, Imitation of Life

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Martha Southgate's avatar

I just rewatched Love and Basketball and while the love story between Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps gets a great deal of well-deserved attention, the mother daughter relationship between Sanaa and Alfre Woodard is one of the most complex and loving and angry and different I've seen between a black mother and daughter on film. Such a great movie!

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Ida Yalzadeh's avatar

Got to agree with the folks who said Lady Bird!

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Eddy's avatar

White Oleander. Haven't seen the movie in a minute, but I remember liking it and my love for the book carries over.

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Emma Kallok's avatar

Mildred Pierce! The original with Joan Crawford. (So juicy.)

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