Antonia (2001)

とある夏、家族と共に避暑地にやってきた17才の少女ベイビーはそこで、ダンス・インストラクターのジョニーと出会い、愛し合うようになる。上流階級のお嬢様はやがて大人の女へと成長する。

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices. Her passion surrounding a woman's right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.

M・クリフト、E・テイラー共演、貧しい家庭に育ち、出世を夢見る野心家の青年が破滅してゆく物語を通じて、資本主義社会を痛烈に批判したヒューマンドラマの名作。 貧しい家庭で育った青年ジョージ・イーストマン。出世欲の強い彼はある時、工場を経営する叔父のもとで働くことに。やがて、彼は社交界で令嬢アンジェラと出会い、惹かれ始める。また一方で、同僚のアリスとも親密になる。そして彼女はジョージの子を身籠もった。だがパーティーで再会したジョージとアンジェラは、互いに強く惹かれ合い関係を深めていく。こうして対照的にアリスの存在が煩わしくなってきたジョージは、彼女の殺害を謀るのだが…。

チャウシェスク独裁政権末期のルーマニア、大学生のオティリアとガビツァは寮のルームメート同士。実はガビツァは妊娠していたが、中絶は法律で禁じられていた。中絶手術の当日、予想外の事態が重なり手術の機会を逃しそうになるが、オティリアは親友のためにある決断を下す。

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?

ジュード・ロウ主演によるリメイクでも話題を集めた作品。バート・バカラック作曲による有名なテーマ曲や、ジャズ・スタンダードにもなったソニー・ロリンズによる劇中音楽など、音楽の魅力が光る名作。主演はマイケル・ケイン。

1950年ロンドン。家族を何よりも大切に、毎日を精一杯生きる主婦のヴェラ・ドレイクには、誰にも打ち明けたことのない秘密があった……。深い家族愛を円熟の演技で描いた珠玉の一篇。

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.

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 morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.

The Loneliness of Marcela, a 14-year-old girl who decides to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

美津の誕生日。 夏子はお揃いの乙女座のネックレスとバラの花を買って来る。しかしアパートの窓には白いハンカチ。それは美津の恋人・英男が来ている合図だった。 ひそかに美津を愛してしまった夏子。彼女を独り占めしようと思うがゆえに英男に近づく夏子は・・・真夏の午後、世界を震撼させた衝撃のラストが―

Timo has a girlfriend but he cheated on her and his lover is now pregnant.

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.

a film about how attitude dissimilar family against abortion .....

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.