Single Parent Movies

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

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

The talented young lawyer Corinna Jakobs is given a great opportunity to make her professional breakthrough: she is to represent the well-known...

Four years into his first stable relationship, a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner's baby.

Desperate to provide a comfortable life for her children, Ina willingly takes all kinds of jobs available to her. But what happens when Ina's family...

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

Soham has a little girl Mishti who misses her mother a lot and sometimes becomes violent when she can’t handle the stress. So, the...

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...

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...

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

A documentary about single mothers by choice.

Life perhaps resembles a football match. Losses could have been undone if you are ambitious enough. In A Floating Hope, Kit seemingly takes up this...

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey...

The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

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