Movies: Illegal abortion

  • 2022
    Call Jane

    Call Jane (2022)

    Call Jane

    6.62022HD

    A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help....

    Call Jane
  • 1996
    If These Walls Could Talk

    If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

    If These Walls Could Talk

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    A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four ba...

    If These Walls Could Talk
  • 2020
    Let It Be Law

    Let It Be Law (2020)

    Let It Be Law

    4.22020HD

    In Argentina, a woman dies every week as the result of illegal abortions. In 2018, for the seventh time, a motion supporting legal, secure and free abortion was presented to the national congress of Argentina. The project provoked a fierce debate, re...

    Let It Be Law
  • 2021
    Women Is Losers

    Women Is Losers (2021)

    Women Is Losers

    6.32021HD

    In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacl...

    Women Is Losers
  • 2006
    Araf

    Araf (2006)

    Araf

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    Araf
  • 1992
    Abgetrieben

    Abgetrieben (1992)

    Abgetrieben

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    TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for illegal abortions....

    Abgetrieben
  • 1965
    Up the Junction

    Up the Junction (1965)

    Up the Junction

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    The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London....

    Up the Junction
  • 2021
    Lingui: The Sacred Bonds

    Lingui: The Sacred Bonds (2021)

    Lingui: The Sacred Bonds

    6.82021HD

    On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an a...

    Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
  • 2012
    Dangerous Remedy

    Dangerous Remedy (2012)

    Dangerous Remedy

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    The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an ...

    Dangerous Remedy
  • 1990
    Sanda

    Sanda (1990)

    Sanda

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    Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores....

    Sanda
  • 1984
    Alev Alev

    Alev Alev (1984)

    Alev Alev

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    Alev Alev
  • 2015
    Pink Moon

    Pink Moon (2015)

    Pink Moon

    4.52015HD

    In a society where heterosexuals are persecuted and abortion is forbidden, two teens are forced to hide an unintended pregnancy before their secret romance is exposed....

    Pink Moon
  • 2024
    Sunshine

    Sunshine (2024)

    Sunshine

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    It follows a young gymnast who discovers she is pregnant on the week of the national team tryouts. On her way to a seller of illegal abortion drugs, she meets a mysterious girl who eerily talks and thinks like her....

    Sunshine
  • 1976
    Calamus

    Calamus (1976)

    Calamus

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    Riccardo, belonging to an upper-middle class family from Puglia, studies religion in a Swiss boarding school. He has an incomplete relationship with his half-sister Stefania, who one day announces his engagement and the next marriage. Riccardo, weari...

    Calamus
  • 1995
    Leona's Sister Gerri

    Leona's Sister Gerri (1995)

    Leona's Sister Gerri

    6.41995HD

    Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, dead from a botched illegal abortion, lying on a motel room floor. The picture appeared in Ms. Magazine in April 1973, and quickly became a symbol for t...

    Leona's Sister Gerri
  • 1944
    Amok

    Amok (1944)

    Amok

    6.21944HD

    After being caught embezzling from his clinic to impress his high society lover and support his gambling habit, a doctor flees to a remote Indian village to volunteer as a humanitarian aid worker. There he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a strange...

    Amok
  • 2022
    Cuerpos juzgados

    Cuerpos juzgados (2022)

    Cuerpos juzgados

    02022HD

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    Cuerpos juzgados
  • 2018
    The Juanas

    The Juanas (2018)

    The Juanas

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    This film shows the work done by the "socorristas" feminist network. Through informative talks and stories about the actions of emotional containment these women have with others who need support, it seeks to eliminate the stigmas on abortions while ...

    The Juanas
  • 1918
    Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

    Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter (1918)

    Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

    01918HD

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    Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
  • 1927
    Memoirs of a Nun

    Memoirs of a Nun (1927)

    Memoirs of a Nun

    01927HD

    Sister Angelika has the power of life or death over her former tormentor, now sick and placed in her care....

    Memoirs of a Nun