Single Parent Movies

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...

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....

A documentary about single mothers by choice.

Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...

A lonely teenage boy discovers friendship, artistic passion, and an unexpected father figure in his estranged grandfather.

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...

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover...

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...

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.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

A young immigrant single-dad is tasked with teaching his daughter English, which he does through American sitcoms.

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...

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,...

Portraits of three single fathers.

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

After being released from a psychiatric ward, a young man attempts to lead a normal life.

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

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