Birth Movies

It's April 1974 and Manchester United are facing the prospect of relegation. Anthony never misses a match and it's the crucial last match of the...

A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.

Teo survives, isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs. It seems destiny has no other plans, than keeping Theo there, until...

To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha...

A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to...

The everyday life of midwives unfolds on the threshold where new life is born and life may fade away. The film shows how midwives support couples...

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...

Birth and death occur when the devil's horns rise. The terror of waiting for the birth of a child from a pre-pregnant marriage and the 14 day wait...

When a young boy forms an unusual connection with his late grandmother, his mother's refusal to believe spirals their lives into chaos.

Featuring experts in their fields and raw and moving footage, this documentary makes a case for increased autonomy in women's choices for childbirth.

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied...

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

Casiopea is the journey to life itself. A captivating adventure that unravels the eternal question of humankind: What happens before/after life?

Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs....

It is 1968 and Marianne is nineteen years old. She has been sent to a home for young girls, far from her family and friends. Here she meets other...

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl...

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is...

A doctor allergic to the human touch finds his salvation in writings tattooed on the body of a dead poet.