Birth Movies

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...

This cinema-verite-style documentary interweaves the pregnancy and childbirth of a young woman with the lingering death of a cancer patient to...

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

Psychological thriller about a woman on the verge of a psychoses while becoming a mother.

Exploring the revitalization of traditional birthing practices in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, the film blends personal stories of...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.

Mary tries to find a way to escape her loneliness by conceiving a child.

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how...

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

After painfully passing a kidney stone, a slob discovers that a new breed of monster has invaded his home with deadly intentions.

This movie charts the three most important questions regarding birth: 1. What makes a safe birth? 2. What disrupts a birth? 3. What do birth...

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.

The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing; a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl. The...

From the seventh month of pregnancy, the five senses of the baby in utero become functional. In the closed universe that is his, a formidable sensory...

After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce...

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an...