Single Mother Movies

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

On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry...

An unruly young mother and her two kids spend a hot summer day illicitly making ends meet on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

Chayilyam is a Malayalam language film written and directed by Manoj Kana. The story is about the plight of a hapless widow, who is denied the...

A single-mother struggles to drop her only daughter off for college.

12 year old Jason lives alone with his mother Marie. When he tells her that he has been accepted into a sports education program, the boy does not...

A single mother clash over career priorities with her daughter confront unresolved issues in the wake of life-changing events.

A portrait of three single mothers living in Hanoi who are bringing the very first changes to the core values in the development process of the...

At the crossroads of documentary and narrative fiction, Another tomorrow offers a window into the daily life of a single mother and her child through...

Motherhood through Erlinda, a 22-year-old girl who grew up in the small town of Prat de Comte, with the contradictions that come with not having...

A gap in the relationship with her mother causes Luna to seek affection from a mysterious doll.

With honesty, intelligence and humour, Nancy, Simone and Gloria reflect on their experiences of balancing single parenthood, working life,...

At the one side of the inner yard lives a mother, who is left alone by her husband, with a little boy and his sister. At the other side lives a wife...

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

Maria José's life story reveals not only the harsh reality she and her family faced, but also a portrait of the real Brazil. Like a butterfly...

Following a dispute with the courts, Nina, a single mother, has lost custody of her daughter. She gets her daughter back for a weekend and wants to...