Birth Movies

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

Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face...

We follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else's child.

A young aging actress reconnects with her former scene partner to ask a vital favor that could change the course of her career.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Az is seven years old girl lives in small village with her parents. Az soon will have baby sister. It is the most joyful moment for her life. But...

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...

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

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

When desperate times call for desperate measures, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Officers are available to help with the complexities of childbirth...

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...

More than one in ten mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Using her own dark experience, the author endeavours to find the key to a better...

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

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...