- The Story of the Weeping Camel: A wonderful Mongolian film about the deep and powerful bonds that link human beings and animals together in a common need for nurturing.
- All About My Mother: A salute to the enormous fierceness, strength and resolve it takes to be a nurturing person.
- Ayurveda: The Art of Being: A fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system.
- Beaches: Charts the emotional high points and the painful low points in a long friendship between two very different women.
- The Bear: A film about a cub's scramble for survival in the wilderness that manages to speak out eloquently against the hunting of animals without having to depict killing to make its point.
- City Slickers: A nifty drama about the life-changing experiences of some middle-aged men at a working dude ranch.
- Conceiving Ada: An innovatively feminist film in which two women struggle to give birth to something that will be lasting despite the intrusion of others.
- Dinosaur: A mesmerizing animated feature set 65 million years ago with a male hero who demonstrates kindness, compassion, and cooperation.
- Evelyn: A touching Irish drama about a nurturing father's strenuous efforts to keep his family together.
- Goodbye, Lenin!: Works exceedingly well as an intimate drama about nurturing love and as a witty political parable about the fall of the German Democratic Republic and the rise of Western consumerism.
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back: Proves that a nurturing love fills an emptiness that nothing else can fill.
- Kolya: A fine portrait of a nurturing male in the making.
- L.I.E.: A daring drama about a poetic and vulnerable teen who is nurtured by someone most of us would consider to be abominable.
- Nicholas Nickleby: A marvelously entertaining screen adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel about a nurturing young man who learns to take care of himself by taking care of others.
- Once Upon a Time. . . When We Were Colored: A heart-warming drama in which community becomes a seedbed where young souls are forged.
- Or (My Treasure): A gritty and realistic Israeli film about a nurturing young woman who tries desperately to turn her mother away from a life of prostitution.
- Pastime: A thoughtfully made and intimate drama about a veteran relief pitcher for a class D professional team who turns to mentoring a younger player as his way of saluting the sport he loves.
- Raising Helen: Gives Kate Hudson a chance to sparkle as a determined young woman who gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's three children.
- Tibetan Energy Yoga: Eight exercises designed to harmonize the masculine and feminine energies in us all, demonstrated by American-born Lama Surya Das.
- Under the Skin of the City: Focuses on a hard-working and strong-willed mother in contemporary Teheran, Iran, who demonstrates big-hearted courage.
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself: A bittersweet Danish film that demonstrates that those who nurture others are the most beautiful souls on the planet.
- The Winter Guest: A warm and winning film about the blessings of human connections.
- The Women of Brewster Place: An engaging portrait of seven women in a ghetto tenement who are struggling to overcome the hardships of poverty and the disappointments of shattered dreams.
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