Movies and TvShows featuring "death-from-childbirth" theme.

Lover's Prayer is a coming-of-age story centered around a teenage boy who falls in love with a green-eyed blonde and navigates through love triangles, sexual tension, and the complexities of Russian nobility.

The Bad Sister tells the story of two sisters, one good and one bad, living in a small town in Ohio during the Great Depression. The bad sister, driven by jealousy and a desire for a better life, plots to sabotage her good sister's relationship with a man they both love. As their rivalry escalates, secrets are revealed and lives are changed forever.

Sarah, Plain and Tall is a movie based on the beloved children's book by Patricia MacLachlan. It tells the story of Sarah Wheaton, a strong and independent woman from Maine who answers a newspaper advertisement placed by a widower named Jacob. Sarah travels to Kansas to spend a trial period with Jacob and his two children, Caleb and Anna. As the family gets to know Sarah, they learn to love and accept her, and Sarah discovers her own love for them and the prairie. It is a touching tale of loss, love, and new beginnings.

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.

Liborio is a peasant who disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, curing the sick and teaching by example. People begin to congregate by his side and they move to the mountains to have total freedom and develop his dream of an independent community. Everything changes when the invading US Marines wants to disarm and disband the community. Liborio wants to avoid a confrontation but they know they can't run forever.

In the border town of Malpaso: Braulio works with his grandfather while his twin, Candido, remains secluded due to his albinism. After their grandfather passes, Braulio will look after Candido, who dreams of the return of their father.

In the midst of a tyrannical regime, a psychiatrist navigates the dangerous world of a psychiatric hospital and forms an unlikely alliance with an escaped patient. As they work together to survive, they uncover dark secrets and challenge the oppressive system.