Single Parent Movies

Clarissa is a driven, straight-talking single Black mother and social warrior in Oakland, California. Becoming unhoused with an infant inspired her...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

Twelve-year-old Luuk Bos has always believed that his father is the Strongest Man in the World. His mother Dorien, who raised him on her own, used to...

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out,...

It's Christmas eve. An inebriated dad brings home to his adolescent son a gift he hopes will mend their faltering relationship, a Fookah, a devilish...

After officially divorcing Aris, Kinan is now adapting to his new life, becoming a single parent and becoming active again as a doctor. He and his...

Soham has a little girl Mishti who misses her mother a lot and sometimes becomes violent when she can’t handle the stress. So, the...

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home...

Life perhaps resembles a football match. Losses could have been undone if you are ambitious enough. In A Floating Hope, Kit seemingly takes up this...

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin.

Four years into his first stable relationship, a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner's baby.

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

An everyday story about a single father with four children, whose eldest daughter, Søs, runs the household. Søs occasionally goes into...

Portraits of three single fathers.

On a free day of school, a young girl joined her father and his colleague Ah Ching on the road to deliver goods to several companies. While eating...

Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and...

The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”

Lorraine Carter lives a quiet, contemptuous life in the mundane suburbs of Lincoln. She is restless, discontented and dreams of what once was and...