Child Abuse Movies

A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.

After the sudden death of her older sister, a successful singer-songwriter finds herself facing their family's darkest memories as she fights to win...

Gives voice to the experiences of Irish institution survivors and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke. Silke was fostered...

Seitz has been abusing his underage daughter for years and is the father of her first child. He is a brutal perpetrator of violence and has several...

Juana, Mar, and Eduardo tell their stories of abuse.

Remy attempts to balance her relationship with her alcoholic mother and her longtime best friend, Arletta. While Remy leans on her best friend as a...

Teo is a Somali boy living in Rome, where his mother works in service to a wealthy family. Friendly and outgoing, the young man immediately befriends...

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

Mother rabbit sends her charges off to school. Peter needs a bit more attention; he's hiding with the chickens, using a feather duster to stand in...

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover...

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

Remake of Wes Craven's 1991 horror comedy.

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

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...

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the...

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...

The dramatic short, Little Wings, explores the trauma of child abuse through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy named Thomas. In this emotional tale,...

A traditional Egyptian family is celebrating the birth of their newest child a baby doll. The doll grows up and is undergoing genital mutilation and...

There is clear evidence that child trafficking is a worldwide industry. The most frightening part of it is that it is not a poorly-financed group of...

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