Birth Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child.

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

An increasingly surreal birthday party.

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

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...

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

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

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...

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

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

A look at the daily life of midwives across Quebec.

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...

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...