Single Parent Movies

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

Clarissa is a driven, straight-talking single Black mother and social warrior in Oakland, California. Becoming unhoused with an infant inspired her to champion childcare and preschool as a human right. Funny and irreverent, Clarissa's infectious energy pulls us along as she presses forward, with...

OB navigates a laundromat’s nighttime inhabitants while scavenging 50¢ to buy a Hero-themed gumball.

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

A coming-of-age drama about a first-generation college graduate returning home to their single mother, and just how isolating change can feel.

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

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

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

Julia and her son Dani with ADHD attend a birthday party to which they haven’t been invited. Parents seem reluctant to let them in but they end up letting them pass. The party goes on well until an aggression between the kids makes the adults to blame Dani and Julia loses her temper for defending...

A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.

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 becomes apathetic to Aksa. Their cold and full of tension relationship makes Aksa can't communicate with Anton well.

Portraits of three single fathers.

Following a single father & his 3 kids, watch the struggle, stress, & strength of what the everyday life is like growing up & those growing pains called life.

A documentary about single mothers by choice.

A documentary film about two single mothers.