Abuse Movies

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter...

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign...

A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where...

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose...

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious...

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her...

Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey....

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing...

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane....

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears' fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential...

A dark domestic drama about the familial ties that bind and the ties that really bind.

After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.