Child Abuse Movies

A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

After a tragic event breaks her family apart, a teenage girl abandons her dreams of a music career and is thrown into the foster care system.

A young skater, Jacob, is on the cusp of his adolescence but held down by a poverty-stricken and abusive household. He attempts to push through this...

There are children. There are those who abuse them. And there are those who know, but never tell.

Nastalia is too young to have experienced many things in life, but as an abused child she has already experienced the darkest side of it. Now a young...

Manuel Barbero, father of a sexual abuse victim, and Joaquin Benitez, the pederast who abuse the son of Manuel and 20 more children, are the main...

Michelle, a 10-year-old survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, attempts to escape both her past and her new home when she learns that her "new"...

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with...

A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.

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

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the...

A group of aging former classmates begin a quest for justice when they learn from one another just how many of them had been abused as schoolboys.

Mara is a law student incapable of feeling emotions. How will she react, then, when she discovers that her rapist is a redeemed and happy man? How...

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover...

An international investigation into the Rajneesh movement. One of the world's biggest and most successful cults, it had communes in more than 30...

When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those...

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