The 10 Best Movies to Watch for Mother’s Day

This Mother's Day may be a little more exciting than last year, when your celebration likely was made up mostly of  Zoom or FaceTime calls. But if you're like most of us, you still haven't weened yourself from Netflix or Amazon Prime yet. We get it. For that reason, we've put together a list of best Mother's Day movies to fill this week with joy and tenderness for dear old Mom (or for yourself). 

There are great mother-daughter movies out there, but at the same time, not as many as you’d expect or wish. Obviously, the fact that, in the past, so few women have managed to direct—or even write—movies is what’s behind this. On-screen moms have traditionally been either saintly or bitchy, with little middle ground.