Single Mother Movies

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 truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her...

When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

A poor single mother, who is trying to turn her life around, is thrust into a fight for survival when her ex-husband relapses and spirals out of...

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting....

A woman searches for clues that led to the murder of her scientist husband whom was experimenting with a possible AIDS vaccine.

The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security...

A pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy are forced to spend a week together at a high-end hotel. The only thing these...

Kevin returns home with a birthday surprise for his mother, Lisa, only to discover her lost in the mundane act of cooking. But something is terribly...

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...

As a result of mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Olga from 2005 finds herself in 2024 in the body of herself, but already a...

Yuk Yin's father dies and her mother remarries to settle the debts. Yuk Yin lives with Auntie Wong. From then on, Chi Hung, Auntie Wong's son and Yuk...

A single mother escapes a dark past to a small town. As she begins to build a new life, she comes across an outlaw looking for redemption.

An everyday conversation between Marta and her mother turns into a tragic race against the clock when Marta receives a phone call from Iván,...

1954 Japanese movie

Businessman Bhaskaran Pillai builds a large commercial empire until his wife dies. Under pressure from his son, Bhaskaran goes on a trip where he...

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 (Óluva Johannessen) is frustrated to see her son (Sámal H.Hansen) lonely and unhappy, so she decides to buy him a new...