Single Parent Movies

A documentary about single mothers by choice.

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...

After his wife leaves him, Joaquín brings his mother-in-law back home to look after him and his son.

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...

Antti Pasanen juggles between taking care of Paavo, his work and personal life, until Enni has an accident and he has two kids to take care of.

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

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's...

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

When a widowed father meets a new dance partner, his children react badly. Are they just missing their mother, or is there another reason for their...

Portraits of three single fathers.

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...

Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a...

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

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

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

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

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,...

The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start....

The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey...