Mildred Pierce (1945)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. daughter, infidelity, husband wife relationship, restaurant, snob, business woman, promise, spoiled child, film noir, murder, black and white, beach house, frame up, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, told in flashback, nightclub singer, mother daughter estrangement, business partner, ungrateful child, mother daughter relationship