Our Mother's House
“The children's story that is not for children...”
1967 · 1 h 44 min
Jack ClaytonCast
Dirk Bogarde Margaret Leclere 
Pamela Franklin Louis Sheldon John Gugolka 
Mark Lester
Credits
Written by: Jeremy Brooks
Plot
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death to avoid the orphanage, and then their father appears.
Sinekatalog’s take
Jack Clayton's drama, with Dirk Bogarde, is eerie and unusual, a gothic domestic fable.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (2,563 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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