Whether your mother is your best friend or you've got unresolved mommy issues, celebrate the hardest-working women on the planet with these films about the good, the bad, and the ugly of motherhood. Joan Crawford plays a dream mother with a nightmare daughter in the classic anti-family-values noir MILDRED PIERCE, Debbie Reynolds personifies the mom you'll never be good enough for in Albert Brooks's all-too-real comedy MOTHER, Margaret Wycherly inspires violent devotion in her gangster son (Jimmy Cagney) in WHITE HEAT, Anne Dorval clashes with a teen Xavier Dolan in I KILLED MY MOTHER, and the inimitable Big Edie presides over the crumbling fantasyland of GREY GARDENS. These women may not all win Mother of the Year, but you've got to love them anyway.

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Mildred Pierce, Michael Curtiz, 1945
White Heat, Raoul Walsh, 1949
Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1964
Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer, 1976
Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh, 1996
Mother, Albert Brooks, 1996
I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan, 2009
Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham, 2010

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