A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered a scandalous choice.
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..
Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
Joel introduces the chiro-gyro at the invention exchange while the Mads show off their flame-throwing flower. In the theater, Joel and the Bots get the third installment of 'Radar Men from the Moon' before the Bela Lugosi film 'The Corpse Vanishes'.
A fiction science monologue about artificial fertilization and its consequences, delivered by four characters interacting with the text.
Impatient to have a child, an infertile couple seeks help at a sperm bank and are thrilled when the procedure works. But their joy is cut short after they discover the donor is a psychopath willing to kill anyone who stands between him and his baby.
A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!
Two adventurous women in love are desperate to have their own biological child. They take a chance on an experimental scientific process and make sperm from their own stem cells. Pregnant with humor and unexpected twists, their journey ultimately confirms that all life is a gift and all families are crazy.
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
Quan Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) compleix els quaranta decideix no esperar més i recorre a la inseminació artificial per tenir un nadó. Set anys més tard, torna a Nova York i es retroba amb el seu amic Wally (Bateman), un home neuròtic i insegur, que, de manera inexplicable, se sent fortament vinculat al fill de Kassie, el petit Sebastian (Thomas Robinson), un nen amb què comparteix alguna cosa més que les seves múltiples manies i excentricitats. Basada en el relat "Baster", del novel·lista guanyador del premi Pulitzer Jeffrey Eugenides, autor de "Les verges suïcides".
Nic (Annette Benning) i Jules (Julianne Moore) són una parella de lesbianes que viuen amb els seus dos fills adolescents: Joni (Mia Wasikowska) i Laser (Josh Hutcherson), tots dos fruit de la inseminació artificial. El que obsessiona els dos nois és conèixer el seu pare biològic (Mark Ruffalo). Per un caprici del destí el troben i decideixen que formi part de les seves vides, encara que naturalment ensopegaran amb l'oposició de les mares. Però aquest no serà l'únic problema.
David Wozniak is a perpetual adolescent who discovers that, as a sperm donor, he has fathered 533 children. He is advised that more than 100 of his offspring are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of "Starbuck," the pseudonym he used when donating his sperm. To make matters worse, his girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child, but doesn't feel that he is mature enough to be a father.
En David Wozniak és un home que en la seva joventut es va dedicar a donar esperma, que ara s'assabenta que és el pare de 533 fills i que molts d'ells volen saber la seva veritable identitat per conèixer-lo.
Set in Paris, a man working in fish delivery becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donations.
A scientist makes a reckless decision to carry on with an illegal surrogacy experiment, using her own body.
Born in 1981, Roman was a brilliant young man, promised a bright future but he died crushed by a car in 2015. His friend Eugenia could not accept this disappearance and decided to create an “intelligent” chabot. Feeding it all his texts, the software learned to speak like him thanks to an artificial intelligence.
Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won't be as simple as they'd hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must believe in the power of their desire and support of their loved ones. If they can do that, miracles will happen…