Movies: Domestic violence

Scars Unseen is a ‘triumph of the human spirit’ documentary following three women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the statistic of 1 in 4 women affected by domestic violence went up to 1 in...

A woman barely holding her family together, has to try even harder when her 14 year old daughter tells her she's pregnant and doesn't want her violent father to know....

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A brother and sister discuss domestic violence that has occurred by looking back at family photo albums....

In the 1970s, a bubbly photographer falls in love with a charming man, only to realize that he's not the person she believed him to be....

After living together for several months, Louis (24 years old) moves in with his lover Sam (35 years old) in the huge suburban house bought as a surprise by the latter. Despite the excitement generated by this pivotal stage in their relationship, Lou...

"Cinnamon" is the story of a newly elected mayor who has been invited to attend a chat show. Whilst in the waiting room, awaiting to go to the interview of the chat show, the young mayor is reminded by the smell of cinnamon of his childhood where he ...

With the pandemic, Marta discovers that the partner she idealized is, after all, violent. Trapped in the apartment with her abuser, she must choose between her safety and that of her son and the end of a seemingly perfect life....

Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence. She questions victims and abusers to try and understand how deep the issues surrounding domestic abuse are for those who have survived and those currently...

A look into the effects of domestic violence and alcohol abuse in same sex relationships as we follow Mollie as she battles to live a normal life with her abusive lesbian partner Ashley....

This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 children, but only two have left to seek better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started thei...

Gabriel, a ten-year-old boy, is running through the night. He seems traumatized....

The story of the South Shore Resource and Advocacy Center, five survivors of domestic violence, and their experience in the Massachusetts justice system....

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This documentary is a sad sight of the reality of child abuse victims who now live in public shelters in Brazil, with stories told by themselves. Children and adolescents who are now in shelters were victims of violence. Most were the victim of the o...

Having broken free from the domestic violence she suffered during 39 years of marriage to her ex-husband Amando, Martha tells her granddaughter Daniela, who is beginning her career as a filmmaker, to make a film out of the personal memoirs in which s...

Clara meets John at a particularly vulnerable time in her life. She is "blinded" by love and he becomes her world. The intense relationship then becomes violent and Clara is forced to take drastic action to protect herself and their son Chris....

A short animated film in which five young people tell of their experiences of domestic violence. Emma and her mother escape from a violent father by moving to a refuge. Jamie sees the effect on his mother of his father's violence. For Sidra, the viol...

Christine, a victim of domestic violence, escaping and wandering the streets of São Paulo. In her drift, she experiences situations because she is a woman and meets other women who reflect on the need to think about cities from a gender, race and cla...

This documentary film reveals how domestic violence occurs in real families. This film takes the audience into the stories hidden behind the doors of houses that appear peaceful from the outside, revealing the mental and physical suffering experience...