Movies and TvShows featuring "rejected-by-mother" theme.

Loveless is a drama film set in Moscow, Russia in the year 2012. It revolves around a couple going through a bitter divorce and their missing child. As they join a search party to find their son, they discover the deep-seated problems in their loveless marriage. The film explores themes of broken families, dysfunctional relationships, and the search for meaning in life.

In 18th-century France, a young woman joins a convent seeking solace but instead finds herself subjected to religious abuse and sadistic cruelty. She must navigate the oppressive and manipulative atmosphere of the convent, facing rejection from her mother, a mother superior who takes pleasure in humiliation, and a malevolent nun who holds power over the entire convent. As she struggles with her own religious beliefs and the torment inflicted upon her, she uncovers dark secrets and fights to maintain her sanity and assert her rights as a woman.

In this inspirational and deeply moving movie, a young, gay Black man who is rejected by his mother and has limited options for his future decides to join the Marines. He faces prejudice and the challenges of basic training, but finds unexpected camaraderie and support in the new community, which gives him a sense of belonging and shapes his identity.

Excision (2008) is a horror movie that tells the story of a disturbed teenage girl named Pauline, who is obsessed with blood and surgery. Pauline struggles with rejection, neglect, and an abusive and domineering mother. She is also dealing with cystic fibrosis, a chronic respiratory illness. As she becomes increasingly unhinged, Pauline finds herself entangled in a medical study that leads to murder, organ removal, and tragic events. The movie explores themes of alienation, irrational behavior, and the consequences of ignoring the problem.

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend, Jolina Kuhn, Berlin’s youth figure skating champion. Through her new friend, Annebarbel begins to open up and break away from her dominant mother.

A young transgender woman rejected by her family in India, lives alone in London, working as a prostitute to pay for hormone therapy. Aleem Khan’s remarkable short film is set in 1997 in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – whose loneliness and isolation our protagonist can identify with only too well. On this extraordinary day, she prepares to set herself free.

A short film about a closeted gay teenager coming out to a conservative Latino family.

Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow orphanage “graduate” the pregnant, and equally isolated, Anya. In the midst of giving birth to her child, tragedy strikes and Anya dies. Never knowing her mother, the newborn girl must be submitted to the orphanage and so Nagima sees the vicious cycle of life in repetitious action and becomes severely depressed at the cruelty of life.