Menstruation Movies

A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.

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

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

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...

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

Ivy gets her first period during her first communion.

A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period.

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...

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

Sam’s period arrives just moments before an important visitor knocks at her door. Her frantic attempt to get ready derails into a blood-soaked...

Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.

The manifesto of a body that bleeds by nature, the reconnection with the ancestors and the self-portrayed voice of a woman who seeks to break with...

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.

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.

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....

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...

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

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