"Stepmother"
1/3Photo: still from the filmPhoto: still from the filmPhoto:still from the filmUSA, 1998Director – Chris ClumbusStarring – Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed HarrisPlot: lawyer Luke Harrison falls in love with beautiful photographer Isabel Kelly. And although she is much younger than him, Luke decides to break off family relations with his wife Jackie. The wife did not interfere with Harrison and stoically endured the divorce. Isabel tries in vain to improve relations with Luke's children, but the children cannot stand their father's new passion. Soon Jackie is given a terrible diagnosis - cancer. The woman understands that she cannot leave her children without motherly love. Therefore, Jackie tries to make friends with Isabel and make her own children love their stepmother.
"All About My Mother"
1/3Photo: still from the filmPhoto: still from the filmPhoto:still from the filmSpain - France, 1999Director - Pedro AlmodovarStarring - Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope CruzPlot: the tragic story of Esteban, who absurdly died in front of his mother Manuela - the main character of the film, forces the woman to reconsider her life. She is prompted to do this by Esteban's diary, which she discovered after his death. It turns out that the son always dreamed of meeting his father, whom he had never seen. And Manuela goes in search of a man with the strange name of Lola, whom she once loved very much.
"My children"
1/3Photo: still from the filmPhoto: still from the filmPhoto:still from the filmRussia, 2007Director – Aleksandr KiriyenkoStarring – Alena Babenko, Liza Arzamasova, Aleksey SerebryakovPlot: Due to a serious injury, Dina, a famous figure skater, had to give up professional sports. By the will of fate, she gets a job at an orphanage, where she teaches dance lessons to mentally retarded children. One day, a girl named Lada Bezuglova, an orphan, comes here. Dina becomes attached to her ward and decides to arrange guardianship. The idyll of the mother with her adopted daughter is disrupted by a man with whom Dina falls in love. After the wedding, the couple plans to have their own children, and at some point Lada becomes superfluous.
"Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later"
1/3Photo: still from the filmPhoto: still from the filmPhoto:still from the filmUSSR, 1980Director – Yuri EgorovStarring – Natalia Gundareva and Viktor ProskurinPlot: Nadezhda Kruglova was considered one of the most capable students. Imagine the surprise of her girlfriends and friends, who met together on a television show two decades later, when they saw her in the role of a mother of many children-heroine. However, this amazement and some feeling of pity (they say, she failed to become an excellent student!) were replaced by respect for this happy and charming woman, who managed to find her true calling in life.
"Stepmother"
1/3Photo: still from the filmPhoto: still from the filmPhoto:still from the filmUSSR, 1973Director – Oleg BondarevStarring – Tatyana Doronina and Leonid NevedomskyPlot: Shura, the main character of the film, has everything going well and happily: her house is a full cup, her beloved husband Pavel and two children are nearby. But one day Pavel receives a letter from a northern town, informing him of the death of a woman with whom he once had a close relationship. From the letter, he learns that he has an eight-year-old daughter, Sveta. Shura, hiding her resentment in her soul, agrees to let the girl live with them in the same house.