Single Mother Movies

Single mother Tay leaves behind her complicated life in Los Angeles to return to her childhood home. She winds up embroiled in a custody battle over...

The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the...

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a...

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.

A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her...

Monica sends her son off to military school and is ready to focus on herself again and start dating. When she meets Anthony, she thinks she’s...

Two single mothers, polar opposites in personality, join forces to track down their children that have been kidnapped by their ex-husbands.

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

Ai Kishimoto, Yukari Miyazawa and Akane Kishimoto are sisters. The sisters live apart in Kanazawa, Toyama and Tokyo, but they gather together to...

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...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

A single mother struggles to connect with her adopted son, who she believes is gay. Her assumptions about her son's needs and desires lead to a...

An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him...

Following the death of a guest at a rural hotel, an immigrant employee struggles to navigate his way through a world where indifference is abundant...

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

Hoping to give her daughter a better life, a single mother decided to work part-time in a convenience store. Yet, the lack of night-time child care...