🏷 Discover The Best Unwanted Pregnancy Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the Complex Issue of Unwanted Pregnancy in Film and Television

Unwanted pregnancy is a sensitive and often stigmatized topic that has been explored in various forms of media, including movies and TV shows. These stories offer a platform for discussion, raising awareness, and promoting empathy towards individuals who face this difficult situation. From dramatic portrayals to thought-provoking documentaries, we've curated a selection of the best movies and TV shows related to unwanted pregnancy.

Cast

Elisabeth Moss

Yvonne Strahovski

Samira Wiley

The Handmaid's Tale (2017) TV Show

8.2 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 66

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Plot: rape, based on novel or book, feminism, slavery, dystopia, surrogate mother, teacher, religion, ...

Gattaca (1997)

7.6 7.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

Plot: genetics, cheating, paraplegic, suicide attempt, dystopia, dna, new identity, investigation, ...

Cast

Sharon Horgan

Rob Delaney

Mark Bonnar

Ashley Jensen

Catastrophe (2015) TV Show

7.6 171 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.

Style: irreverent, witty, romantic

Plot: london, england, jealousy, husband wife relationship, marriage proposal, ex-boyfriend, pregnancy, stag night, ...

My Sister's Keeper (2009)

7.4 2.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

Plot: sibling relationship, court case, parent child relationship, in vitro fertilisation, medical examiner, kidney transplant, cancer, chemotherapy

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Style: cynical

Plot: rape, aids, illiteracy, unwillingly pregnant, balloon, school, crying, motorcycle, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Montgomery Clift

Elizabeth Taylor

Shelley Winters

Anne Revere

A Place in the Sun (1951)

7.3 421 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Plot: based on novel or book, love at first sight, ambition, trial, black and white, attraction, heiress, rowboat, ...

Cast

Rooney Mara

Claire Foy

Jessie Buckley

Judith Ivey

Women Talking (2022)

6.8 742 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

Plot: rape, based on novel or book, faith, illiteracy, bolivia, mennonites, religion, gang rape, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

Haley Bennett

Austin Stowell

Elizabeth Marvel

David Rasche

Swallow (2020)

6.6 862 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

Plot: sexual abuse, housewife, loneliness, psychological thriller, psychiatrist, therapy, mental illness, eating non food, ...

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Donald Cline

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Jacoba Ballard

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Angela Ganote

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Kylene Gott

Our Father (2022)

6.5 212 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: 18

Story: After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

Plot: genetics, infertility, doctor, evil doctor, crime doctor, fertility, fertility clinic, genetic science

Cast

Jeon Do-yeon

Lee Jung-jae

Seo Woo

Youn Yuh-jung

The Housemaid (2010)

6.3 382 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.

Plot: adultery, eroticism, remake, suicide by hanging, housemaid, dominance submissiveness, unplanned pregnancy, uninvited guest, ...

Cast

Liam Neeson

Forest Whitaker

Maggie Grace

Dougray Scott

Taken 3 (2014)

6.3 6.2K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

Plot: escape, funeral, gas station, detective, bodyguard, suspicion of murder, golf, penthouse apartment, ...

Place: california

Cast

Saif Ali Khan

Preity Zinta

Arshad Warsi

Javed Jaffrey

Salaam Namaste (2005)

6.2 104 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: Australia, India

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Two young Indian expatriates in Melbourne, Australia, Nick, a chef and radio host Ambar, who decide to live together without marriage, leading to conflict and unexpected parenthood when Ambar gets pregnant.

Plot: remake, falling in love, relationship, unplanned pregnancy

What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

6.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

Plot: based on novel or book, married couple, pregnancy, adoption, dance competition, one-night stand, older man younger woman relationship, pregnant woman, ...

Cast

Matilda Lutz

Francesco Russo

Peppino Mazzotta

Will Merrick

A Classic Horror Story (2021)

5.8 1.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: Italy

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

Plot: cult, unwanted pregnancy, snuff film, rv, violence

Place: italy

Cast

Adam Sandler

Andy Samberg

Leighton Meester

Vanilla Ice

That's My Boy (2012)

5.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.

Plot: talk show, older woman seduces younger guy, women's prison, strip club, drinking, prison sentence, single father, incest, ...

Time: 1980s

Æon Flux (2005)

5.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

Plot: martial arts, espionage, dystopia, surrealism, based on cartoon, shootout, infertility, cyberpunk, ...

Cast

Klaus Kinski

Debora Caprioglio

Nikolai Kinski

Dalila Di Lazzaro

Paganini (1990)

5.3 29 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 85 min.

Story: Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

Plot: child abuse, rape, violin, eroticism, classical music, biography, pregnant minor, violinist, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: italy

Cast

Nicola Peltz

Virginia Madsen

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Luke David Blumm

Raven Goodwin

Lola (2024)

5.1 23 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: 15

Story: 19-year-old Lola James is trying to work to save enough money to get her beloved little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

Plot: rape, drug abuse, cocaine, strip club, cannabis, sexual violence, prostitution, theft, ...

Cast

Vicky Kaushal

Triptii Dimri

Ammy Virk

Neha Dhupia

Bad Newz (2024)

4.9 29 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: After a whirlwind marriage with social media influencer Akhil Chadha that ends in divorce, chef Saloni Bagga meets hotelier Gurbir Pannu. One night with Gurbir – and then also with Akhil – leads to Saloni getting pregnant. But who's the father? By a one-in-a-billion twist of fate, Saloni is carrying twins – and not just any twins, each child has a different father!

Plot: hotel, love triangle, romcom, overbearing mother, social media influencer, unexpected pregnancy, melodrama, female chef, ...