Abuse Movies

A street cat meets an old man that will change his life forever. Between bowls of milk and warm cuddles, he feels welcomed by his new owner, but the...

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however...

“No Bruises” is a narrative short film that explores the cyclical nature of emotional abuse, played out in vignette-style glimpses into...

The animated documentary - a mix of live-action footage and animation - tells of the brutal everyday life in the orphanages of the 60s / 70s. Often...

Carrying the blame for her mother’s pain, Ricki searches for a way out of an abusive family relationship. She and her younger sister face a...

Ezequiel is home alone while his parents are away. He bears the burden of desiring other boys and keeping it a secret—until he meets "Mono," an...

College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney...

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.

Over the course of a single harrowing night, May, a pregnant woman trapped in a cycle of addiction, psychosis, and domestic violence goes into labor....

Guinevere begins having disturbing nightmares about her boyfriend. As the dreams grow more vivid and frequent, she gradually loses the ability to...

In an isolated prairie farmhouse, on a sweltering summer night, two sisters are locked in a battle of wills. Tension, frustration, anger and hatred...

A cancer-bearing high school janitor befriends an abused student who purposely puts herself in detention.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

When photos of her at a party cause her to lose a scholarship, a student investigates whether something devastating happened to her that night.

Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle,...

Paige must choose between love and fear before she has no choices left to make.

In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.

Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...

After their father's death two sisters reunite at their childhood home to uncover forgotten secrets and rip open old wounds.