Child Abuse Movies

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

Following the behavioral problems and progressive confessions of her two children Marie and Pierre, a mother decides to file a complaint against her...

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a...

A man stuck in time of his greatest trauma grew up suppressing it in order to avoid being judged; thinking that it was all his fault. Years of...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida was supposed to be a place where troubled kids could go to straighten out their lives. What these...

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...

British Channel 4 documentary looking at the work of Bradford Social Services and some of the people in Bradford who are struggling to cope in their...

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...

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...

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...

The children of "Happy Valley" were victimized for years, by a key member of the legendary Penn State college football program. But were Jerry...

Back in prison, Didrik, 33, discovers a new way of expression and happiness through theatre and acting, and starts looking back at his past and...

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling...

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

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were...

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.

Dedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist Jake Morrison is trained to help individuals cope with trauma. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake...