Sex in a Cold Climate
1998 · 52 min · ★ 7.1 · Documentary, TV Movie
Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".
Directed by Steve Humphries
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