Movies: Child abuse

DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communicate, three change-averse siblings collide with their older brother and their own myopic worldview with comic and tragic results. The film follows the s...

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed ab...

"Conspiracy of Silence" is a powerful, disturbing documentary revealing a nationwide child abuse and pedophilia ring that leads to the highest levels of government. Featuring intrepid investigator John DeCamp, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran a...

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt....

Martin is rejected by his mother with callousness and beaten by his father: a childhood without love. The story sounds like a case study from the book "The Drama of the Gifted Child" by the world-famous Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller. But Martin is...

America Undercover looks at the phenomenon of Satanism in the World. It talks to practitioners of Satan worship and interviews those who claim that they have been victimized by it. It also talks to some of the people who want to stamp Satanism out fo...

Linda is a struggling single parent who is raising her mute daughter Annie, desperate for money, she seeks help from a shady guy she met online....

Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were beaten, humiliated or abused if they spoke t...

Two young women join the director. The three of them become one to break the silence and tell a story about incest. Between reality and traumatic flashbacks, the narrative transcends genre barriers to explore pain and resilience....

An altar boy and a gardener decide to break a long and painful silence by denouncing the Catholic priest who abused them as minors. This unprecedented incident in Costa Rica causes the priest to flee, becoming a fugitive from the law and Interpol. Th...

Spider-Man: Don’t Hide Abuse is a 1990 animated educational short film. In it, Spiderman explains how to deal with abuse....

Life becomes complicated for a troubled teen when he makes friends with a gay schoolmate....

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. Fo...

A girl with a traumatic past blurs the line between psychopath and vigilante....

A young Filipino man learns to be the caregiver of his abusive grandmother who suffers from dementia, only to be mistaken as her old lover....

The story of four women who, in their childhood, were abused by the Director of the Institution in which they grew up and after many years, decide to take their revenge by planning his murder in order to close their accounts with the past....

An unlikely combination of objects and people are assembled to create this heartwarming tale of perseverance, friendship and love....

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future....

Mariam, Asiya, and Anissa were 11, 7, and 5 years old when they were raped. The attackers were their paternal uncle, a neighborhood youth, and the nanny's son. They have no memory of the event. To protect them, their bodies developed traumatic amnesi...

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