Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "one-child-policy"

1. What Happened to Monday (2017)

TV-MA | 123 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari

Votes: 134,925

2. So Long, My Son (2019)

185 min | Drama

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang

Votes: 5,303

3. One Child Nation (2019)

R | 83 min | Documentary, History

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang, Tunde Wang

Votes: 7,227 | Gross: $0.18M

4. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei

Votes: 6,679 | Gross: $1.89M

5. The Last Child (1971 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant... See full summary »

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Michael Cole, Van Heflin, Harry Guardino, Janet Margolin

Votes: 230

6. It's a Girl! (2012)

Not Rated | 64 min | Documentary

Every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.

Director: Evan Grae Davis

Votes: 535

7. Somewhere Between (2011)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary

A documentary on four teenage girls living in different parts of the US and united by one thing: all four were adopted from China due to family situations colliding with the country's "One Child Policy".

Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton | Stars: Ann Boccuti, Jenna Cook, Fang Lee, Haley Zhu-Butler

Votes: 446 | Gross: $0.19M

8. One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (2022)

19 min | Short, Drama

After the Second-Child Policy passed in China, a high school girl struggles to deal with life after her 48-year-old mother is pregnant again to have a boy to pass on the family line.

Director: Ana Yang | Stars: Yue Cheng, Mubarez Munajidin, Xinyuan Wang

9. Watermarks: Three Letters from China (2013)

80 min | Documentary, Drama

Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments.

Director: Luc Schaedler

Votes: 42

10. In the Mood for Life (2016)

63 min | Documentary

China's controversial one child policy may have been abandoned but the forced abortions and sterilizations and harsh punishments for unauthorized pregnancies continue. It remains illegal to... See full summary »

Director: Marjolaine Grappe

11. Birth Control (2004)

30 min | Action, Short

In the future, a ban on unapproved births due to overpopulation is enforced by a group of Birth Control agents. When the wife of one of these agents becomes pregnant, the couple go on the run to save their unborn child.

Director: Paul Nguyen | Stars: Quin Dalgleish, Faruk Gumus, Paul Nguyen, Andrei Petrik

Votes: 21

12. Wild Seed (2020)

14 min | Short, Crime, Drama

During the period of One-Child Policy, Peng, an illegally pregnant mother escapes from her home to avoid getting arrested by the family planning committee and being forced to have an ... See full summary »

Director: Sunyin Zhang | Stars: Tian Xu, Kai Kang, Jie Shao, Hongping Song

13. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Goo Goo Gai Pan (2005)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Selma decides to adopt a child, so the whole family goes to China.

Directors: David Silverman, Lance Kramer | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,604

14. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014– )
Episode: China's One Child Policy (2019)

TV-MA | 34 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

John explains the troubling history, brutal enforcement and questionable results of China's highly controversial, decades long, one-child policy, a punitive measure conceived originally as ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Pennolino | Stars: Ryan Barger, Susan Evans, David Kaye, John Oliver

Votes: 259

15. Transplant (2020–2024)
Episode: Far from Home (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

Bash wants to make things right by Amira after their lives are turned upside down once again.

Director: Stefan Pleszczynski | Stars: Hamza Haq, Laurence Leboeuf, Ayisha Issa, Sirena Gulamgaus

Votes: 188

16. Paul Merton in China (2007– )
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2007)

60 min | Documentary

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Star: Paul Merton

17. Unreported World (2000– )
Episode: Georgia's Baby Factory (2021)

Documentary, News

Anja Popp went to Georgia for Unreported World, and found a largely unregulated surrogacy market, where wealthy couples can have multiple babies at the same time, and where there is no shortage of vulnerable women to meet the demand.

18. Serpentza (2008– )
Episode: Lying flat - China's Silent Revolution (2021)

8 min | Documentary

Lying flat is a protest movement in China but even more so a coping mechanism by young Chinese workers. Having recognized that the grueling 996 work week for mediocre pay is getting them ... See full summary »

Stars: Lele Farley, Winston Sterzel

19. Otros pueblos (1983– )
Episode: Chinos (1983)

Documentary

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Director: Luis Pancorbo | Star: Luis Pancorbo

20. Cogito (2016– )
Episode: Why are China and India so Populated (2017)

7 min | Documentary, History

For the past ten thousand years India and China had near perfect conditions to support a rapidly growing population. Add in a head start and the major calamities that held other regions ... See full summary »

Star: Domhnall Cogito

21. PolyMatter (2015– )
Episode: China's Fundamental Economic Problem (2023)

15 min | Documentary

For the past several decades China's solution to economic down turns was construction which; created jobs while building out necessary infrastructure for a growing populations. That approach isn't working as well anymore.

22. Le sexe autour du monde (2011–2013)
Episode: Chine (2011)

52 min | Documentary

Chinese contributions to sexual culture can be seen in ancient drawings and statues discovered throughout history, but the country's sexuality is far more suppressed in modern times under ... See full summary »

Director: Lisette Marcotte | Stars: Philippe Desrosiers, Angela, Xiu Ping Ciu, Xiaopei He