Birth Movies

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She...

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter...

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and...

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...

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

The Born at Home documentary explores and uncovers the empowering journey of homebirth, shedding light on the often overlooked and misunderstood...

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

Alexis is a 32-year-old white woman married to Alain, an African from Rwanda. This documentary focuses on Alexis giving birth in her parents home. As...

Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, an experienced midwife who listens to them...

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

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in...

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

“Birth” sings of mixed emotions of love and separation in a gloomy setting. As the emotions after the breakup become excessive and the...

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

A lonely man finds himself in trouble when a malevolent force begins to pursue him, forcing him to confront the beginnings and endings of his life.

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...

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...

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

Poor girl who experienced a terrible incident on her birthday which was supposed to be the happiest day.