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Can. 2025. Drama by Chloé Cinq-Mars with Rose-Marie Perreault, Simon Landry-Désy, Saladin Dellers. Haunted by the horrific death of her sister, a young insomniac mother sinks into postpartum depression.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 2024. Horror by Michael Mohan with Sydney Sweeney, Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli. Shortly after her arrival at a convent in the Italian countryside, an American novice miraculously discovers herself pregnant.
Runtime: 89 min.
14A
Pér. 2022. Horror by Michelle Garza Cervera with Natalia Solian, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla. Happy to be pregnant at last, a young woman goes from happiness to horror when she falls victim to terrifying visions.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 2021. Horror by John Lee with Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan. Desperate to have a baby, an advertising executive is artificially inseminated by a famous New York doctor with dark intentions.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2021. Fantasy by Julia Ducournau with Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier. Compromised during a murderous evening, a serial killer impregnated by a car skips town and adopts the identity of a missing boy.
Runtime: 108 min.
18A
Irl. 2019. Science-fiction by Lorcan Finnegan with Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Eanna Hardwicke. A couple is trapped in an uninhabited suburban residential development with perfectly identical streets and houses.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2018. Horror by Ari Aster with Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff. In the aftermath of her mother's death, a model designer feels supernatural presences around her two children.
Runtime: 127 min.
14A
U.S. 2017. Fantasy by Darren Aronofsky with Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris. The quiet country existence of a poet in need of inspiration and his young pregnant wife is disrupted by an influx of strangers with various motives.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 2014. Horror by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett with Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, Stephanie Grote. After mysteriously falling pregnant, a young bride begins to exhibit disturbing behaviours that make her husband fear the presence of a demonic influence.
Runtime: 89 min.
Aust. 2014. Horror by Jennifer Kent with Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney. Six years after the violent death of her husband, a mother begins to share her son's anxieties that the monster from a children's book is trying to kill them.
Runtime: 93 min.
Esp. 2013. Horror by Andy Muschietti with Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier. A couple find and adopt their two nieces, who have been living in a ruined cabin deep in the woods since a terrible family tragedy five years earlier.
Runtime: 101 min.
Can. 2009. Horror by Vincenzo Natali with Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody, Delphine Chanéac. By crossing human DNA with that of various animal species, a couple of geneticists give birth to a hybrid creature that is both beautiful and terrible.
Runtime: 101 min.
14A
U.S. 2009. Horror by Paul Solet with Jordan Ladd, Stephen Park, Gabrielle Rose. Leading her pregnancy to term despite the intra-uterine death of her baby, a woman is amazed to see her baby come back to life after delivery, with a strong taste for human blood.
Runtime: 85 min.
Dan. 2009. Horror by Lars von Trier with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Storm Acheche Sahlstrom. Depressed since the accidental death of her toddler, a young woman receives therapy from her husband, a psychologist, in their cottage deep in a mysterious woods.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 2009. Horror by Jaume Collet-Serra with Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman. Shortly after being adopted by a family recently bereaved of a child, a little girl exhibits disturbing behavior.
Runtime: 123 min.
Can. 2006. Horror by Christophe Gans with Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden. Wanting to cure her daughter of her bouts of sleepwalking, a young mother comes to a strange town whose inhabitants are prisoners of the forces of darkness.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1986. Science-fiction by James Cameron with Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser. Skilled soldiers are dispatched to rescue a colony of humans on a planet that is populated by monstrous creatures.
Runtime: 137 min.
14A
G.-B. 1976. Fantasy by Richard Donner with Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner. Disturbing incidents are caused by the presence of a child adopted at birth by a diplomat.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1974. Horror by Larry Cohen with John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, James Dixon. A monstrous newborn baby, gifted with prodigious strength, flees into the night while sowing death in his path.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1968. Fantasy by Roman Polanski with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon. A young pregnant woman becomes convinced that she is being subjected to witchcraft.
Runtime: 136 min.
18A
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