Child Abuse Movies

When a 12-year-old boy escapes from the home he's been raised in by a popular parent influencer, police discover that viral fame was a cover for a...

Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale...

A woman returns to her childhood home following her father's death, and begins to remember the horrors of her past.

A father comes home for Christmas in the basement where he is keeping his wife and children captive. Inspired by the Josef Fritzl case.

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now...

The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for...

After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in....

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...

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

The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a...

A struggling local journalist begins a dogged investigation into harrowing cases of abuse being covered up at a shelter for young girls.

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

Brother and sister duo Nick and Emma hatch a plan to run away from their abusive father and set up camp in local woods.

After moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...

Elmer Jackson, a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s, struggles to bring up his 4 young boys after the death of his wife. He is...

Juvenile Liaison is about the day-to-day assignments of the juvenile liaison section of the Blackburn, Lancashire police force. The documentary...