Child Abuse Movies

18-year-old Kathleen is fresh out of foster care. Her departure coincides with the death of her biological mother, so she returns to her hometown to...

After many years, Julia returns to her childhood home, where as a child she was sexually abused by her recently deceased father. But inhabiting that...

Jiwon, a motivated new police officer, is strangely bothered after meeting Osun, a social worker. On a hot summer day, a kidnapper sends a message...

Jonathan must protect himself and his younger sister by escaping the home of their abusive father.

A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed...

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

The film follows five years in the life of a young girl as she struggles against an onslaught of good intentions. From her first encounter with the...

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...

In 1998, Natascha Kampusch was abducted in broad daylight at the age of ten and held hostage in a basement for 3096 days. When she escaped in 2006,...

A woman tells us the feelings of her childhood, through an atmospheric journey to her past, where we relive that traumatic moment: her father's abuse.

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...

Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus...

POLICE OFFICER JIM BYRNE, Canada's most honoured Safety Education Specialist brings you his famous TEN RULES, with which he has personally tested...

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.

In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor....

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.

A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with...

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

In the intensive care station, the young doctor, Miranda Schwarz, is feeling morally conflicted about having to save her tormentor's life.