Child Abuse Movies

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.

Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.

Remake of Wes Craven's 1991 horror comedy.

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a...

The film follows five years in the life of a young girl as she struggles against an onslaught of good intentions. From her first encounter with the...

Ordinary young couple Gemma and Richard have just bought their first home and are expecting a baby. It's all very exciting, and the couple settles in...

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

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

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...

A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

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...

A young girl, Ingrid (Sabrina Dickens) has been abused and disowned by her guardians and social workers. As she tries to get her life organised...

Jiwon, a motivated new police officer, is strangely bothered after meeting Osun, a social worker. On a hot summer day, a kidnapper sends a message...

At the Mountain Rock Church in South Carolina, Pastor Raimund Melz leads a small Christian cult that justifies brutal actions like child abuse with...

In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves...

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...

Every year in Quebec, 25,000 reports of children being beaten, sexually abused or abandoned are retained by the Directorate of Youth Protection. And...

Trying to escape their past, Lee enters college only to meet an extension of the painful history looming over them.