Child Abuse Movies

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

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

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed...

María lost her husband in the cristero civil war. Her son Benito and a spanish priest are her only support. The loss of a minor puts...

An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.

Easwaran, a young government employee gets the shock of his life when his niece Sundari goes missing. After initially wrongly accused of kidnapping...

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

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their...

When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.

8-year-old Aaron Averhart was just a year shy of being able to move up from Cub Scout to Boy Scout when he received a special request from an admired...

A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.

As a child, Woo-young and his sister were mistaken as orphans and were sent to an orphanage, where he had been abused and lost one eyesight due to...

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

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...

As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his...

After a chance encounter over the internet, Caleb meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy, and soon the line between love and lies blur.

18-year-old Kathleen is fresh out of foster care. Her departure coincides with the death of her biological mother, so she returns to her hometown to...

Four boys survive on the seedy night streets of St Kilda’s red-light district in Australia in the 1980s, turning tricks for a feed and drugs....

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