Illegal abortion movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant illegal abortion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, crying, independent film, sincere and emotional films and TV shows about / with illegal abortion, abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, cigarette smoking, blood, feminist and female protagonist plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as illegal abortion: Happening (2021), Ask for Jane (2018), Wish You Were Here (1987), The Tribe (2014), Call Jane (2022), Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Vera Drake (2004), Angry Annie (2022), If These Walls Could Talk (1996).

List of illegal abortion movies

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 7.4
 11K
Happening (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style: sad, independent film, crying
Plot: abortion, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, pregnancy, post war, feminism, women, abortion rights, chaos, sexual repression, woman, summer ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: france
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 5.9
 252
Ask for Jane (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
Style: thrilling, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: abortion, illegal abortion, abortion rights, pregnancy, male female relationship, female protagonist, social issues, social problems, women, feminist, feminism, unwanted pregnancy ...
Place: chicago
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Wish You Were Here (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out ...
Style: grindhouse, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: sex with teenager, coming of age, pregnancy, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, working class, sex, father daughter conflict, post war, teenage girl, age difference, psychopath ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: england, europe, brighton
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 7.0
 12K
The Tribe (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, erotic, surreal, art house ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: deaf, boarding school, prostitution, bullying, sign language, mute or deaf, deaf mute, prostitute, illegal abortion, gang, adolescence, youth ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: ukraine, kiev ukraine
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 6.5
 6K
Call Jane (2022)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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.
Style: historical drama, independent film
Plot: abortion, illegal abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, propaganda, housewife, woman, abortion rights, feminist, doctor, female protagonist, baking cookies ...
Time: 60s
Place: chicago
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Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a ...
Style: slasher, erotic, suspense, disturbing, sensual ...
Plot: lust, serial killer, lesbian sex, sexual fantasy, erotica, fashion model, female serial killer, voyeur, licking, model, voyeurism, murderer ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, sexual abuse, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, communism, rape, realism, communist, doctor, coming of age, young woman, character study ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: romania, transylvania, eastern europe, europe
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 7.6
 27K
Vera Drake (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Style: sincere, depressing, bleak, compassionate, contemplative ...
Plot: abortion, working class, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy, neighbor, injustice, miscarriage, life is a bitch, double life, character study, abortionist, family life ...
Time: 50s, year 2004, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, europe, dunkirk, burma ...
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 6.8
 679
Angry Annie (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
Style: exciting, sincere, funny, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot: illegal abortion, abortion, pregnancy, civil rights movement, pregnant woman, women's wrestling, female protagonist, woman, women, fight
Time: 70s
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If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: abortion, moral dilemma, pregnancy, family relations, unwanted pregnancy, women's rights, couples, society, life is a bitch, lesbian, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: chicago, illinois
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The Cider House Rules (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style: sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, kids
Plot: abortion, orphan, coming of age, adoption, mentor protege relationship, justice, premarital sex, love triangle, incest, childhood, self discovery, sick child ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 90s, year 1999, 1930s ...
Place: maine, usa, new england
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 2.4
 4K
The Abortion (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: rough, scary, atmospheric, serious
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, confined, family relations, ghost, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, illegal abortion, abortion, isolation ...
Place: turkey
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Story of Women (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.
Style: anthology, thought provoking, sincere, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: abortion, world war two, women's prison, street prostitution, unhappy marriage, ends with death, death row, nazi, wartime life, unwanted pregnancy, feminist, women ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, year 1943, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy, paris france, france
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 5.8
 4K
Jack's Back (1988)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
Style: slasher, detective, sexy, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, murder of a prostitute, prostitute, doppelganger, serial murder, evil twin, lookalikes, whodunit, erotica, teenager, name calling ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Women Is Losers (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: lesbian, feminist, woman, abortion, catholic school, pregnant woman, feminism, illegal abortion, pregnant teenager, abortion clinic, teenage pregnancy, loss of job ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: san francisco
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 7.0
 16K
Alfie (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a young man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Style: witty, ironic, intense, emotional, talky ...
Plot: womanizer, playboy, abortion, infidelity, character study, jazz, promiscuity, self discovery, lifestyle, coming of age, morality, love and romance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
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 7.6
 717
Three Families (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
TV show
Story: Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
Plot: abortion rights, women, female protagonist, abortion, women's rights, misogyny, privacy invasion, birth, female politician, mother daughter relationship, abortion clinic, pregnancy ...
Place: northern ireland, belfast, ireland
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
Style: psychological, black and white, depressing, offbeat, retro ...
Audience: date night
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, unwed pregnancy, musician, jazz, love, marriage, time travel, female leader, music and dance, family relations, love triangle ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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Ju Dou: Secret Love, Hidden Faces (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, erotic, erotic drama, independent film ...
Plot: patricide, infidelity, impotence, adultery, murder, drowning, sadism, abuse, erotica, tragedy, marital abuse, asian history ...
Time: 1920s, year 1990, 20th century
Place: china, asia
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
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The Student Nurses (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs.
Style: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: sexy nurse, feminist, erotica, exploitation, feminism, night, campus, business, college, nurse, nudity, bare breasts ...
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 6.8
 283
Cora Unashamed (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: From the short story by Langston Hughes.
Plot: father daughter relationship, life changing, interracial, loss of daughter, grief, housekeeper, death of child, racist, black american, servant, african american, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: midwest, iowa
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The Night Watch (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, serious, deep ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lgbt, love affair, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, sexual relations, wartime life, war, love, lgbtq, gay ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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 7.0
 254K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: love story, dancing, coming of age, couples, forbidden love, summer, summer romance, youth, love and romance, fall in love, dance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, new york state
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 5.4
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The Rape After (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The figure of an evil genie is stolen by a photographer. At night the genie comes to life and rapes his girlfriend while both of them are drunk.
Style: mystic
Plot: zombie, photograph, evil, night, rape, pregnancy, husband wife relationship, burned corpse, car crash, murderer, rat, female nudity ...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: incestuous sex, female nudity, sexploitation, revenge, pink film, exploitation, yakuza, female prisoner, samurai, martial arts, lesbian, superhero ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo
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The Carey Treatment (1972)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey ...
Plot: doctor, medical, cover up, murder, drug addict, blackmail, investigation, police detective, autopsy, teenage pregnancy, stepmother, masseur ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: boston
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 5.6
 5K
Criminal Law (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom, lawyer, investigation, psychopath, police investigation, chase, courtroom drama, blood, gang, criminal, law ...
Time: 80s
Place: boston, usa
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What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style: slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, london
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