A catalogue of movies that mention menstruation.

There are nearly 630,000 movies on IMDB (March 2023). As few as 300 of them have dialogue about periods.

People who menstruate make up around 26% of the global population; we bleed monthly for around 40 years of our lives. But menstruation's representation in cinema sits at less than 0.04%…

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