Child Abuse Movies

The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close...

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views...

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed...

Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet,...

When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother,...

Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first,...

A struggling local journalist begins a dogged investigation into harrowing cases of abuse being covered up at a shelter for young girls.

Teo is a Somali boy living in Rome, where his mother works in service to a wealthy family. Friendly and outgoing, the young man immediately befriends...

A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a...

13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized...

A young girl's flight from an abusive childhood into the amber fields, and long fangs, of her imagination.

Lea, at 10 years old, still wets her bed. Gloria, her mother, divorced and almost absent, is looking for a wet nurse. Along comes Maria, a young girl...

Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their...

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally...

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

Based on a true story of two brothers in 1970's Ohio. It tells of their abandonment by their alcoholic parents and how the brothers turned to each...

In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves...

Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse...