Honey, I Aborted the Kids
By: Ally the Manic Listmaker
Despite abortion being legalized and/or acceptable in most countries, it is still something emotional and sometimes heartbreaking for a woman to go through. The way it is portrayed in cinema can be enlightening, disturbing, and/or a reflection of the way things are. The films either feature an abortion or a character who considers it.
[ Mike Leigh on the set of Vera Drake. ]
Not in the database:
-Le procès de Bobigny (2006)
-Blue Denim (1959)
-Our Joyful Young Days
-The Road to Ruin (1934)
-Quand l’amour réfleurit (1916)
Note: I’ve included Eraserhead, because some interpretations say the film is about abortion.
“Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.” – John Waters, who also said in 2011 that 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days was the “best abortion movie”.
Potential spoilers in the following descriptions:
In Under the Sky of Seoul, they talk about aborting to save the life of the mother.
In Intentions of Murder, a woman tells her lover that she aborted the baby for his sake and she wished she had kept the baby.
Rorschach’s mother tells him she should have had an abortion in Watchmen.
In 17 Girls, Camille decides if she wants to continue her pregnancy. There is also a discussion about how it is illegal to force minors to have an abortion.
In Au Royaume des cieux aka In the Kingdom of Heaven, a girl talks about her mother who was put away for administering abortions.
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01Mike Leigh
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02Ingmar Bergman
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03Lewis Gilbert
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04John M. Stahl
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05Claude Chabrol
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06Woody Allen
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07Alexander Payne
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08Woody Allen
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09Atom Egoyan
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10Alexander Kluge
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11Gilles Paquet-Brenner
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12David Lynch
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13Noah Baumbach
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14Cristian Mungiu
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15David Fincher
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16Agnès Varda
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17Sam Mendes
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18Moufida Tlatli
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19Jason Reitman
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20Alejandro González Iñárritu
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21Carlos Carrera
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22Michael Winterbottom
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23Rodrigo García
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24Cher
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25Tony Kaye
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26Richard Fleischer
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27Todd Solondz
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28Guy Maddin
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29Emile Ardolino
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30Lasse Hallström
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31Robert Mulligan
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32Harold Becker
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33Gaspar Noé
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34Phillips Smalley
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35Ingmar Bergman
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36Silvio Narizzano
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37Kenneth Lonergan
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38James Ivory
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39Jan Troell
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40Pavel Lungin
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41Joko Anwar
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42Paul Newman
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43Amy Heckerling
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44Derek Cianfrance
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45Claire Denis
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46Richard Donner
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47Emmanuelle Millet
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48Colin Eggleston
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49Lee Hyeong-pyo
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50Olivier Assayas
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51Xavier Dolan
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52Jafar Panahi
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53Lars von Trier
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54Pierre Pinaud
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55Shôhei Imamura
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56Koreyoshi Kurahara
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57Zack Snyder
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58Delphine Coulin
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59Akira Kurosawa
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60Liv Ullmann
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61Amy Heckerling
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62Julien Duvivier
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63Claude Sautet
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64Sarah Polley
