Movies: Domestic abuse

Based on an actual murder that took place in 1996 in Shibuya, Tokyo. One day, Emi receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Takumi. He tells her that her older sister, Tomomi, has disappeared after murdering her husband, Kohei. Emi is devastated. What ...

Eleonora is trapped in her marriage with Achilleas. Her brother, Vagelis, unwillingly offers her a possible way out....

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 in the house he killed their mother in with little knowledge of what happened to her. Spanning over f...

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Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the ...

The Masked Avenger can make things happen. Though at 10 he is considered young for a justice fighter he has already proved himself highly effective in the pursuit of peace. He has discovered powers that are locked inside gems and minerals and uses th...

The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. In a panic, the wife and son both believe the man ...

The act of a woman with a broken nose, who suddenly jumps out of a taxi and throws herself off the bridge in Belgrade, connects the lives of three witnesses....

"Scars," is a short film that explores the horror of domestic abuse. The story follows James through a nightmarish experience of his past relationship with his girlfriend, Camila. He's unconsciously guided around his house by a mysterious presence th...

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 wife, Angel's life completely upside down....

Felix, a 21-year-old loner and drifter who seeks a way of life comes to a humble village entrerriano and work relationship with a man who after losing his job while you earn a living selling fruit, candy and canned prepared by his wife. The man takes...

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this grit...

Ginanti’s ride home suddenly turns uncomfortable when her taxi driver starts to talk about his sexist point of view about Ginanti’s way of life. Little do they know, the night has some surprises in store....

A cynical NYPD domestic violence officer ends up falling in love with a woman running away from her obsessive and abusive husband....

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver....

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she i...

Three sisters are afforded the opportunity for rediscovery through their grief after losing their father....

A courtroom sketch artist grapples with the remnants of a past lover and muse, as she attempts to live a new life of independence. Using art to escape his haunting memory, the manipulative connection seems almost too hard to shake....

A family reunion where everything is not as it seems. Short film made in 48 hours as part of Manchester Actors Platform 48 hour film competition....

When a young woman meets her boyfriend’s parents for the first time, she finds a grim fate waiting for her at their cabin in Cleveland....