Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "home-birth"

1. Call the Midwife (2012– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, History

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Stephen McGann

Votes: 31,520

2. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,389 | Gross: $198.68M

3. The Pod Generation (2023)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a not-so-distant future, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.

Director: Sophie Barthes | Stars: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig, Vinette Robinson

Votes: 3,774

4. Carrie (2013)

R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A shy girl, outcast by her peers and sheltered by her religious mother, unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday

Votes: 148,209 | Gross: $35.27M

5. Pieces of a Woman (2020)

R | 126 min | Drama

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Iliza Shlesinger

Votes: 56,265

6. Lady and the Tramp (1955)

G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson

Votes: 148,518 | Gross: $93.60M

7. The Back-up Plan (2010)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A woman conceives twins through artificial insemination, then meets the man of her dreams on the very same day.

Director: Alan Poul | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen

Votes: 52,280 | Gross: $37.49M

8. Inside (2007)

R | 82 min | Horror

Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot

Votes: 44,715

9. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.

Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez

Votes: 18,844 | Gross: $21.67M

10. The Road Dance (2021)

116 min | Drama

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.

Director: Richie Adams | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss, David Brooks

Votes: 1,234

11. Loving (2016)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford

Votes: 36,386 | Gross: $7.70M

12. Shenandoah (1965)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Western

A Virginia farmer who has vowed to remain neutral during the Civil War is spurred into action when his youngest son is taken by Union soldiers.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne

Votes: 9,629

13. Are We Done Yet? (2007)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family

Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne Persons decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids, Lindsey and Kevin. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.

Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen

Votes: 22,549 | Gross: $49.66M

14. Village of the Damned (1960)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 19,142

15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 8,410

16. My Baby's Daddy (2004)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy

A trio of young men (Griffin, Anderson, and Imperioli) are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.

Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker

Votes: 3,890 | Gross: $17.32M

17. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins

Votes: 6,791 | Gross: $1.00M

18. Johnny Belinda (1948)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama

A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 5,318

19. Barry Munday (2010)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, he learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.

Director: Chris D'Arienzo | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloë Sevigny, Jean Smart

Votes: 4,497

20. Mad to Be Normal (2017)

106 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.

Director: Robert Mullan | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon

Votes: 1,722

21. You'll Like My Mother (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Francesca Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was recently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town and gets snowed in ... See full summary »

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Sian Barbara Allen

Votes: 863

22. Samsara (2001)

R | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's ... See full summary »

Director: Pan Nalin | Stars: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Barthel, Lhakpa Tsering

Votes: 8,252

23. Crowhaven Farm (1970 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror

A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine

Votes: 1,018

24. Street Scene (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 2,052

25. The Rye Horn (2023)

105 min | Drama

Illa of Arousa, 1971. María earns her living fishing and also helps other women in their deliveries. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee from her and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival.

Director: Jaione Camborda | Stars: Janet Novás, Siobhan Fernandes, Carla Rivas, Daniela Hernán Marchán

Votes: 425

26. El secadero de iguanas (2018)

Drama, Thriller

A bar in the middle of nowhere. A girl facing her demons. Her twin brother. An incestuous relationship. A mother they never met. A violent, alcoholic father. The nomads' periodic visitations.

Director: Antonio Donaire Sánchez | Stars: Lola Arellano, Ramón Bocanegra, Juan Luis Corrientes, Marco Corrientes

Votes: 35

27. Million Dollar Babies (1994)

200 min | Drama

The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second in taking over the family. He helps to take ... See full summary »

Stars: Beau Bridges, Roy Dupuis, Céline Bonnier, Sean McCann

Votes: 334

28. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama

The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.

Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, James Olson, Pamelyn Ferdin

Votes: 131

29. Jessica (1962)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jealous of a beautiful widowed midwife, her female neighbors in their small Sicilian village plot her ruin by refusing to have anything to do with their husbands.

Directors: Jean Negulesco, Oreste Palella | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Angie Dickinson, Noël-Noël, Gabriele Ferzetti

Votes: 410

30. Mrs. Mike (1949)

Approved | 99 min | Drama

While visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O'Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. They fall in love, marry, and go north to Mike's new posting. Together, they face and ... See full summary »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan, Angela Clarke

Votes: 147

31. Generation (1969)

PG | 109 min | Comedy

Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter is pregnant. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. His daughter and the father of his grandchild, marry shortly before Jim's arrival.

Director: George Schaefer | Stars: David Janssen, Kim Darby, Carl Reiner, Pete Duel

Votes: 131

32. These Are My Hours (2018)

52 min | Documentary

THESE ARE MY HOURS is the story of a single birth -- start to finish. This intimate documentary immersion into one woman's physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual experience of ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Kirschenbaum | Stars: Emily Graham, Jason Graham, Carey Glenn, Ramona Graham

Votes: 27

33. Misconceptions (2008)

TV-MA | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

The story centers on a religiously conservative, married southern woman who receives a message from God instructing her to act as a surrogate mother and carry a child for two married gay ... See full summary »

Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: Elliot Swift, David Sutcliffe, A.J. Cook, Nicole Burron

Votes: 262 | Gross: $0.01M

34. Doctor Bull (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Vera Allen, Howard Lally

Votes: 740

35. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003)

99 min | Drama

A disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.

Director: Manish Jha | Stars: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Sushant Singh, Aditya Srivastav

Votes: 2,256

36. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)

Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary

In this uncomfortably intimate film, documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara visits his ex-girlfriend Miyuki and records her new relationships.

Director: Kazuo Hara | Stars: Kazuo Hara, Miyuki Takeda, Sachiko Kobayashi

Votes: 402

37. Reparation (I) (2015)

105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A troubled Air Force veteran finds clues to his buried memories in his daughter's art, while confronted by a mysterious figure from his past looking for answers of his own. Winner of 11 ... See full summary »

Director: Kyle Ham | Stars: Jon Huertas, Marc Menchaca, Virginia Newcomb, Drew Powell

Votes: 288

38. Stretch Marks (2009 Video)

67 min | Documentary, Music

This highly revealing self documentation, follows Zohar Wagner, a 38 years old, single mother, provocative performance artist, exploring her sexuality while pregnant and after birth.

Director: Zohar Wagner | Star: Zohar Wagner

Votes: 15

39. Why Not Home? (2016)

77 min | Documentary

Dr. Michelle Minikel thought home birth was crazy--until she got pregnant. Turns out she's not alone. Join director Jessicca Moore on a compelling journey of discovery about maternity care ... See full summary »

Director: Jessicca Moore

Votes: 12

40. Legge di guerra (1961)

103 min | War, Drama

During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.

Director: Bruno Paolinelli | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Magali Noël, Peter van Eyck, Jean Desailly

Votes: 54

41. Birth of a Baby (1938)

72 min | Drama

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Director: Al Christie | Stars: Eleanore King, Richard Gordon, Ruth Matteson, Josephine Dunn

42. Not Worth a Fig (2009)

82 min | Drama

Celil who has newly returned home from army duty while he is on a picnic with his family. His elder sister who finds herself responsible and guilty about his death, gets herself in a deep depression.

Director: Selda Çiçek | Stars: Özgü Namal, Derya Durmaz, Burcu Salihoglu, Sevinç Erol

Votes: 326

43. Birthing at Home (2009)

25 min | Documentary, Short

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 her parents and great-grandmother look ... See full summary »

Stars: Alexis Lundy, Alain Rutayisire, Jazmine Lundy-Rutayisire, Sienna Lundy-Rutayisire

44. Baby Blues (1941)

10 min | Family, Comedy, Short

Mickey's mother is about to deliver her fourth child. But Mickey, after reading in the almanac that one out of every four children born into the world is Chinese, is afraid the baby will be... See full summary »

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Our Gang, Margaret Bert, Robert Blake, Janet Burston

Votes: 79

45. Giving Birth in America: New Mexico (2019)

21 min | Short

A New Mexico couple leans on a nearby midwife to help overcome their limited resources to experience a healthy home birth based on their values.

Director: Clancy McCarty

46. Paternal Instinct (2004)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Romance

Two boys in search of a surrogate mother for their child.

Director: Murray Nossel | Stars: Erik, Mark Eisenhardt, Barbara Eisenhardt, Larry

Votes: 93

47. Doula! The Ultimate Birth Companion (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary

A uniquely intimate documentary about birth and postnatal doulas. Features actual footage in close-up detail of three really positive doula-supported births plus a separate section on postpartum doulas.

Director: Toni Harman

48. Aftur Heim?/Home Again? (2020)

71 min | Documentary

An exploration of women's stories in home birth in Iceland, seen through the lens of a female filmmaker who is forced to come to terms with her feminine side when she discovers she is pregnant.

Director: Dögg Mósesdóttir

49. The Birth of Ludi (1974)

40 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary about the "Home Birth Movement" that started to evolve in Northern California in the 1970s. Focuses on Joan Felt and the birth of her son Ludi (also called William).

Director: Elizabeth Grumette | Star: Joan Felt

50. Making Mothers (2008)

Not Rated | 26 min | Documentary, Short

"Making Mothers" is a short documentary that captures the lives of two African American caregivers at the Family Health and Birth Center in NE DC who help women during their transition to ... See full summary »

Directors: Ben Crosbie, Tessa Moran

Votes: 11