Menstruation Movies

England, 1813. In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood...

Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are...

One ordinary morning, a 10-year-old girl is surprised by the arrival of her first period.Therefore, through the metaphor established between our...

Dawn breaks over Caracas. From a pile of cardboard beside an ATM emerges Irene, a young girl living on the streets. Her days unfold between the...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

A young girl gets her first menstrual period.

A 12-year-old girl must take a stand against her conservative grandmother after being excluded from a family ritual upon getting her first period.

A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world....

This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.

Amalia, a girl of thirteen, gets her first period one day before leaving for the seaside with her parents.

Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or...

Even at the age when changes in the body are expected, menstruation is still taboo for teenagers in Brazil. Mixing fiction and documentary, Menarca...

The relationship of a grieving father and daughter is tested when they are forced to navigate the daughter’s first menstruation cycle without...

A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the...

While roller-skating, Sam, a sensitive teenage girl, hears about her small town's local legend: the Boogeywoman.

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give...

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.

Molly anxiously awaits her first sign of menstruation, which means that she'll be able to date and go dancing. The school nurse explains exactly what...