The Mother

The Mother (2003) is a British drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roger Michell and starring Anne Reid alongside Daniel Craig in an early career role. May, a newly widowed grandmother, moves in with her daughter in London — and almost immediately meets Darren, her daughter's boyfriend, a carpenter young enough to be May's son.

An affair begins. Brief, passionate and quietly ruinous for everyone involved. Michell doesn't frame May as victim or predator; the film is simply honest about desire, loneliness, and what happens when a woman in her sixties decides she still has skin in the game. Reid plays nearly every scene with extraordinary economy. Stream The Mother on iFILM.