Domestic Abuse Movies

Patty Sullivan is a battered woman who decides to take charge of her life by taking boxing lessons to better protect herself when her boyfriend...

A courtroom sketch artist grapples with the remnants of a past lover and muse, as she attempts to live a new life of independence. Using art to...

Can the thread of bad luck, violence and suffering which is braided deeply into the generations of one family be broken? Beba's mother is a woman of...

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of...

The calmest seas are the most turbulent underneath. So is the case in Blink, a story of domestic abuse and human brokeness. Nailah Belle is the...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...

A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.

Leah has forgotten who she is. She thought the man known as The Wolf would be her knight in shining amour but then he subjects her to attacks and...

A group of women fight patriarchy and societal values. Prem Kaur, a new police officer, uncovers dark secrets and becomes a beacon of hope for the...

After surviving an abusive past, Yorkshire mother Tahira discovers strength through trail running. Supported by a running community, she rebuilds her...

Eleonora is trapped in her marriage with Achilleas. Her brother, Vagelis, unwillingly offers her a possible way out.

An emotionally-blocked and avoidant young man attempts to convince his responsible and motherly girlfriend to abort their baby.

Living in a small rural town, with little available emotional help around her, a young woman returns for a visit to her therapist. She finally...

A cynical NYPD domestic violence officer ends up falling in love with a woman running away from her obsessive and abusive husband.

A young woman struggles with living a life wherein her identity is still tied to the abuse she experienced as a child. One night, she falls victim to...

A young woman visits a spiritualist medium in order to contact her dead husband for one final goodbye.

Three sisters are afforded the opportunity for rediscovery through their grief after losing their father.

Stacy aka Ashley Sweet, an actress in porn movies, has an abusive boyfriend who is dangerously jealous.

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.