Birth Movies

A short Disney film on what planning for a family is and how it works.

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

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...

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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Set in a poor Québec neighbourhood during the 1930s, a young woman begins the dire labour of birthing.

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

The painful exit of a child of man in the world of God. The highest sense of being and the earthly joy of man and woman.

A successful but isolated young woman, stalked by grief, is haunted inside her own body - until a final, brutal revelation shatters everything she...

An increasingly surreal birthday party.