I want to keep my baby (film)
Synopsis
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
it was made in 1976.
Confessions of an American girl
Synopsis
Rena and her family travel to the father's prison for the annual family picnic. Things seem to be going just fine, but he eventually becomes abusive and angry. Rena's brother Jay, who is secretly gay, wanders off to tour the prison with another inmate named Buddy. Rena tells her dad that she's pregnant, news which the father does not handle well. When Rena's mother later discovers that her husband is having an affair, they get into a physical fight. When the guards see this they attack him and he stumbles backwards and falls on Rena. Rena rushes to the bathroom, finding that she's bled, and lost the baby. She breaks a picture frame and uses the glass shards to slit her wrists, but Jay saves her just in time. The movie revolves around a teenage girl named Rena, a dramatically suicidal teenager whose father is serving a long prison sentence. The boy she likes only uses her for sex and other teenage girls tease her relentlessly.
Madge announces that she is moving the family to Florida. Rena tells her boyfriend about the miscarriage and when he expresses indifference, she causes his prized car to drive into a swimming pool. The end shows the family leaving home for Florida, with Rena's now ex-boyfriend running through the yard screaming at her.
Saved 
Saved is a film about a religious girl called Mary who loses her virginity and becomes pregnant. She decides to hide it from her family and friends until she has graduated and before she gives birth. The film follows Mary through her school life and until she gives birth.
links to my play
- All three films follow girls who become pregnant while in school and their decisions on how they will cope with this event in their lives.
- They contain issues about raising a child without the father, being stigmatised for being pregnant and their relationships with others in their lives because of the pregnancy.
