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1. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Votes: 83,674 | Gross: $24.38M
2. Happening (2021)
R | 100 min | Drama
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Director: Audrey Diwan | Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Votes: 11,625
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,339 | Gross: $1.19M
4. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
GP | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood
Votes: 9,807
5. The Lady in Red (1979)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a naïve farm girl moves to Chicago, where she becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime abetted by John Dillinger.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Robert Hogan
Votes: 1,413
6. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 5,490
7. The Nanny (1965)
Unrated | 93 min | Mystery, Thriller
There's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers
Votes: 6,796
8. Hanger (2009 Video)
91 min | Horror
A pregnant prostitute is forced to have a brutal abortion in a dark back alley, an act of sheer violence that will eventually lead to a bloody revenge.
Director: Ryan Nicholson | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Dan Ellis, Nathan Dashwood, Ronald Patrick Thompson
Votes: 1,105
9. Story of Women (1988)
108 min | Drama, History, Romance
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier
Votes: 5,755 | Gross: $0.44M
10. Blue Denim (1959)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Fairly-typical 1950s teenagers Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard find their lives turned upside-down when Janet becomes pregnant. Arthur is desperate to tell his parents of the predicament ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Carol Lynley, Brandon De Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 669
11. The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Directors: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 907
12. The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Glenn Ford, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Janet Leigh
Votes: 504
13. The Coast Guard (2002)
R | 91 min | Drama, War
A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Jang Dong-gun, Kim Jeong-hak, Park Ji-ah, Yoo Hae-jin
Votes: 3,534
14. Time to Kill (II) (2014)
71 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
For Sara theres no time to waste, no time to lose, theres only.Time to Kill
Director: Brian K. Williams | Stars: Ellie Church, Debbie Rochon, Charlie Moon, Jason Hignite
Votes: 137
15. Hot Nights on the Campus (1966)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Naïve small town Indiana gal Sally arrives in New York City to attend college. While in New York Sally lives with four more worldly and uninhibited female roommates, goes to wild swinging ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Orlando | Stars: Gigi Darlene, Alpha Centuri, Marlene Eck, Judy Adler
Votes: 87
16. Cora Unashamed (2000 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Set in the 1930's Iowa, where the Cora's family live as the community's only African-Americans. and supported only by Cora's being a housekeeper to the Studevants. When tragedy strikes, will Cora's speak the truth...with consequences?
Director: Deborah Pratt | Stars: Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston
Votes: 284
17. Amok (1934)
67 min | Drama
Dr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Fled from love and civilisation his only companions are alcohol and his work, which takes him to the villages ravaged by... See full summary »
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Jean Yonnel, Valéry Inkijinoff, Jean Servais
Votes: 137
18. Seeing Allred (2018)
TV-14 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography
Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred takes on the biggest names in American culture as coverage of sexual assault allegations in the media become more prevalent.
Directors: Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain | Stars: Gloria Allred, Lisa Bloom, Hillary Clinton, Bill Cosby
Votes: 1,468
19. Street Corner (1948)
73 min | Drama
Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist.
Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Joseph Crehan, Marcia Mae Jones, Jean Fenwick, Don Brodie
Votes: 121
20. A Matter of Choice (1988)
5 min | Short, Drama
This short black-and-white silent film filmed in 1988 deals with a young woman's moment of choice before entering a back-alley abortion clinic.
Director: William Davis | Star: Gillian Anderson
Votes: 107
21. The Weather in the Streets (1983 TV Movie)
133 min | Drama, Romance
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn, Joanna Lumley, Rosalind Ayres
Votes: 41
22. The Death of the Horse (1992)
80 min | Drama
Set during the sweeping purges in 1980s Albania, a military regiment raising horses is disbanded under suspicion of being involved in a coup against dictator Enver Hoxha. One man, Agroni, ... See full summary »
Director: Saimir Kumbaro | Stars: Timo Flloko, Raimonda Bulku, Niko Kanxheri, Fitim Makashi
Votes: 125
23. From Danger to Dignity (1995)
57 min | Documentary
A look at the courageous legal and extralegal efforts of those who fought to break the silence, change the laws and end the shame which surrounded abortion when it was a crime in the United States.
Director: Dorothy Fadiman | Stars: Huw Anwyl, Peg Beissert, Curtis Boyd, Arlene Carmen
Votes: 15
24. Women's Misery - Women's Happiness (1930)
21 min | Documentary, Drama
"Misery and Fortune of Women", is a portrait about abortion and the realities of women from different backgrounds. Eisenstein captures stories revolving abortion (desired process or others ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard Tisse | Stars: Walburga Gmür, Johannes Steiner
Votes: 119
25. Conflit (1938)
94 min | Drama
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: Annie Ducaux, Marguerite Pierry, Armand Bernard, Raymond Rouleau
Votes: 45
26. Cui hua zhe si (1983)
Drama
Ah-feng is a teenager who is raped by her Mother's boyfriend. Following her subsequent pregnancy she decides to seek revenge.
Director: Yung-Chang Li | Stars: Ray Lui, Sau Lan Chow, Pei-Hsi Chen, Chih-Chiang Chung
Votes: 20
27. Abortion: Ancient and Modern Part One (2011)
18 min | Short
In ancient times the dangers of abortion for women were compared with the dangers of war for men... and little changed for thousands of years. This ground breaking film explores the legal ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Jenkins
28. Leona's Sister Gerri (1995 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Jane Gillooly | Stars: Leona Gordon, Geraldine 'Gerri' Santoro
Votes: 39
29. The Fragile Promise of Choice: Abortion in the United States Today (1996)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Dorothy Fadiman | Stars: James Armstrong, Rachel Atkins, David Booker, Susan Cahill
Votes: 15
30. History of a Secret (2003)
95 min | Documentary
A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother.
Director: Mariana Otero | Stars: Jean-Jacques Vautier, Thérèse Vautier, Isabel Otero, Jeanne Vautier
Votes: 65
31.
Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode:
A Matter of Love and Death
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman is found dead from internal bleeding after an abortion. Using previous cases and clues provided by Ironside, Eve goes undercover to track down an abortionist who has had several other patients die.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell
Votes: 60
32.
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.13
(2022)
TV-MA | Drama
In 1929, Roza suspects her attackers may have left her pregnant. In 1940, Luna resolves to enter a dance contest.
Director: Oded Davidoff | Stars: Michael Aloni, Yoalah Brinson, Tom Hagi, Irit Kaplan
Votes: 18
33.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005– )
Episode:
A Woman's Right to Chop
(2019)
TV-MA | 20 min | Comedy
When a trendy new hair salon opens up right next door to Paddy's, Dennis and Frank go on the offensive to stop women from cutting off their hair. Meanwhile, Mac is reunited with his childhood dog Poppins.
Director: Pete Chatmon | Stars: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson
Votes: 1,930