Domestic Abuse Movies

Every day, Australian Damien Rider is haunted by his abusive childhood. Determined to find his peace, and ensure it happens to no other child, Damien...

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

Heavily pregnant and in the early summer heat, Mina has wandered up into the Montenegrin mountains in search of answers to the problems she is facing...

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

Kathryn Joy was three months old when their father killed their mother. He served just 22 months and by age four, Kathryn was back living with him...

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...

Lucas, a young man in the suffocating grip of an abusive relationship with his domineering boyfriend, Kurt, wrestles with fear and self-doubt as...

How does a divorced, abused and suicidal woman become one of the most successful authors in history, redeeming marriages all over the globe? This...

A child runs into the woods in an attempt to escape Evil.

A young woman deals with a self-centered, abusive boyfriend.

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

Bruises Behind Closed Doors takes its audience into the life of Herbert, an abusive husband who has been secretly in with another woman throws his...

The short film is about a dangerous form of manipulation. Gaslighting means one person overpowers another by manipulating their perception –...

A triptych of found footage from the London Community Video Archive, seen through various masks that isolate the subjects. Women’s testimonies...

Hector comes back home after being away for one year. As he looks in the rooms for his father, his childhood memories are awakened...

Stanley is a bright, but socially inept, young introvert who faces several kinds of abuse from his father and sister and, as a result, begins to show...

When an aspiring singer receives an opportunity to perform from her former abuser, she’s forced to risk her current relationship for the...

The story of mysterious super heroine Dynamic Venus. Appearing to be an abused housewife, in reality she's an alien that feeds on her husband's abuse...

A look at the normalization of violence through footage depicting scenes that are representative of the subject matter, while a typical story of...

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage,...