Surrogacy - Dramas

Baby Mama
Director: Michael McCullers
Country of origin and year: USA, 2008
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she has finally determined to have a child of her own. However, she discovers she has only a million–to–one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. But the executive‘s well–organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0871426/

The Handmaid's Tale
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Country of origin and year: USA, 1990
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway and Aidan Quinn
Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned. Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander, but she is attracted to Nick, the Commander's chauffeur. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/

Paternity
Director: David Steinberg
Country of origin and year: USA, 1981
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo and Norman Fell
Buddy Evans is the most eligible bachelor in New York managing Madison Square Garden. He's 44 and something is missing from his life. With his friends Larry and Kurt’s advice, he decides to find a surrogate mother with whom to have a son. Despite facing various roadblocks, eventually, he finds that Maggie, a waitress is willing to accept his unusual proposal to fund her music studies in Paris.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082886/

The Surrogate Woman
Director: Kwon-taek Im
Country of origin and year: South Korea, 1987
Starring: Soo-youn Kang,  Gu-sun Lee,  Yang-ha Yun
Shin, a young heir, is given a surrogate wife to bear his child. However, the couple soon become passionate lovers. The woman may have the social status of a servant, but the relationship changes both of them -- at least for a time.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091953/

The Surrogate
Directors: Jan Egleson, Raymond Hartung
Country of origin and year: USA, 1995
Starring: Connie Sellecca, Alyssa Milano, Vincent Ventresca
Amy Winslow wants to go to art college but can't get her financial aid approved. She agrees to be a surrogate mother for a couple couple who will let her move into their quiet guest home rent free. Little does Amy know the dark sinister reasons behind her desire, the scandalous death of Joan's first infant child and the fear she might hurt her next baby.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114585/

When the Bough Breaks
Director: Jon Cassar
Country of origin and year: USA, 2016
Starring: Morris Chestnut,  Regina Hall,  Romany Malco
John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate - but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna's deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it's too late.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389139/

Clone (Original title: Womb)
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Country of origin and year: Germany, Hungary, 2011
Starring: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216520/

The Surrogate
Director: Jeremy Hersh
Country of origin and year: USA, 2020
Starring: Jasmine Batchelor, Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones
A web designer for a nonprofit in Brooklyn, is ecstatic to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend and his husband. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected results that pose a moral dilemma.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10239320/

Mimi
Director: Rajesh Bhatia, Laxman Utekar
Country of origin and year: India, 2021
Starring: Kriti Sanon, Evelyn Edwards, Pankaj Tripathi
Mimi is a small-town girl from Rajasthan who gets offered money to act as a surrogate for an American couple. The middleman is Bhanu who, in his impeccable style, manages to convince both parties. Mimi must work out how to hide her pregnant belly from her parents and society at large. Even when the couple change their mind, Mimi decides to have the baby and tells her parents that Bhanu is the father.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10895576/