Mom plan: 15 movies marathon to laugh, cry and eat popcorn

The saying says that “mother there is nothing more than one”, but within each of them there are many different moms: when they make a doctor, psychologist, teacher, image advisor, cook, social media manager and a very long etcetera that is almost impossible to enumerate. And there are also many different types of mothers: the unconditional, the one who is also a friend, who did not have it easy, the one who is a mother despite not sharing blood, which does not fully understand her children, who has to share the role with another ‘mother’ …

Anyway, everyone must be celebrated whenever possible. As? If you ask her, surely it is enough to spend time with you, so here we leave you some ideas in the form of pins that will allow you to share with your mother an afternoon of sofa, blanket and popcorn in which to share laughs, tears, songs and many feelings.

One of the musical comedies par excellence to the rhythm of the mythical songs of the Swedish group Abba. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is about to marry and before the big day arrives she wants to know who her father is. Thanks to an old newspaper of his mother (Meryl Sreep) he will know the name of three possible parents, and invite them to the link. Seasoned with memorable interpretations and incredible music, it is the story of a mother who tries to protect a daughter and a daughter who wants to know her story. Ideal for an afternoon of good vibes.

The film that earned French McDormand the second of his three Oscar for Best Actress is the story of a mother who faces an entire town to find the rapist and murderer of his daughter. Tired of not finding the culprit, Mildred (McDormand) paints three accusing posters at the entrance of the town against the head of local police (“raped while dying” / “Why are there no arrests?” / “How is possible, commissioner Willoughby?”). An ode to the unconditional love of a mother dotted with brushstrokes of pain and guilt.

This adaptation of Robert Harling’s play is the clear example, between drama and comedy, what the concept of tribe means. A group of women from Lousiana faces complicated moments when Shelby’s health (Julia Roberts) endangers her possibility of having children. Her mother (Sally Field) tries to support her while dealing with her overprotection instinct. Of course, both have the unconditional support of their group of friends, with which they share all kinds of situations. An example of sorodity in the purest southern style.

It is the first great story of Pixar that breaks the stereotypes of the typical Disney princess. Mérida is the king’s daughter and that is why her mother wants her to become a good queen and fulfill her obligations, but she wants to write her own destiny. The visit to an old woman who grants wishes will unleash chaos in the kingdom and the only way to solve the problem is that mother and daughter learn to listen. A film that, in addition to showing a different princess, puts important values ​​on the table such as courage, empathy and understanding.

Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is a mother of two divorced children from Luke, who now maintains a relationship with Isabel (Julia Roberts), two women who, although at first they do not understand each other, should approach each other and ‘make family’ to face a serious illness. A film that shows the complications of separate marriages, new couples and the acceptance of children.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscarized film is an example of a mother’s pain after the loss of a child. Manuela’s (Cecilia Roth) has died at age 17 in an accident shortly after having finished a book entitled ‘Everything about my mother’, in which she expressed her concern for not having met her father. To try to flee from reality and close old wounds Manuela travels to Barcelona to look for the father of his son. A tribute to all mothers and all those women to whom life has put to the limit.

In any of the cinematographic versions of the famous Louisa May Alcott novel, this film is an undoubted “must” for any mother and daughter (or daughters). Mujercitas tells the history of the March family: the Marmee matriarch, her four daughters and a father who fights in the front of the American Civil War. In an action that takes place over several years, this film is the perfect show of the links between completely different women that have as its central nucleus a mother always willing to guide them in matters of the heart, reason, independence, perseverance or the need to stay together with adversity.

Amalia (Laia Costa) has just been a mother and does not know very well how to do it. When his partner is absent for work, he decides to return home to his parents to be able to share the responsibility of caring for his baby. What Amaia has not realized is that although she is now a mother, she is still a daughter. Directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and winner of the Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Film Festival, it is a story about the different dynamics of motherhood and never fashionable problems within families.

For those mothers and daughters to whom they find it difficult to understand, this film is a mirror to look at. Christine (Saose Ronan) is a teenager who is in the last year of institute, looking for a university that, if possible, is as far as possible from his family. An attitude not approved by his mother, (Laurie Metcalf), which cups the ungrateful. The result? That in each of their interactions sparks. What neither says that one is afraid to take the passage to adult life and the other is facing the inevitable empty nest syndrome.

Sara and Brian’s life takes a radical turn when her two -year -old daughter is diagnosed with leukemia. The only hope to save the little girl is to resort to genetic engineering to have another child, and Anne is born. Both sisters have a very close relationship, but when Anne turns 11, she must make one of the most difficult decisions of her life. A moving drama that shows the unconditional love of a mother and her despair to save her daughter’s life.

Based on the homonymous novel by Larry McMurtry, Aurora (Shirley Maclaine) and Emma (Debra Winger) are a very united mother and daughter, but with very different points of view about life. Aurora is a temperamental widow with a good heart and Emma is a young rebel who in her desire for wanting to become independent to marry. A melodramatic comedy that reflects the reality of many families: good and bad, tender and cruel moments, in which the same clashes arise than moments of love.

One of those films with pleasant and tangled stories intertwined by the hand of several families that have to decide how to spend Mother’s Day. Garry Marshall, director of Pretty Woman, is at the forefront of this fun comedy that focuses on different types of mothers, in their way of living and acting with their families. A celebration of motherhood and links between mothers and children.

Ann (Sarah Polley) is 23 years old, two daughters and a complicated family life that is accentuated when they diagnose a terminal uterus that will only allow you to live two months. Then, Ann discovers an unusual pleasure of living guided by a vital impulse: to elaborate a list of things he wants to do before he died, from looking for his partner ‘girlfriend’ to leave his little ones safe. A moving, emotional, sensitive and splendid tape directed by Isabel Coixet.

One of the great classics of musical cinema. Set in the Vienna of 1938, before the Nazi occupation, it tells the story of Maria (Julie Andrews), a nun that does not fit the convent and the one they send as a governess of the seven children of the strict captain von trapp (Christopher Plummer), widowed for a recent time. The Von Trapp house works like a barracks, but Mary’s music manages to return the joy to the children and earn her love. Through songs that have gone down in the history of cinema, ‘Smiles and tears’ shows such important values ​​as integrity, humility and value in difficult times.

Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Ana (Lindsay Lohan), have very different tastes. One day they wake up one in the body of the other, an unusual fact that will make each of them understand how life is in the skin of the other. A fun intergenerational comedy about mothers and daughters.