Movies: Domestic abuse

The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home. The 9-year-old seems to escape from her harsh reality by spending her days in the woods of a nearby scrapyard with her friend, Pete. There, the pair have built a new home for them...

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The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family....

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat....

When Sophia leaves her violent husband, new problems arise as she regains fortitude and her daughter struggles with adolescence....

Stacy aka Ashley Sweet, an actress in porn movies, has an abusive boyfriend who is dangerously jealous....

"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers who often either don't want them or have been convicted of domestic violence....

A famous photographer and his wife are rekindling their relationship by moving in a remote hut. Going through the up and downs of marriage: fights, tenderness, even a love child that suddenly passes away. Did time really pass or does his narcolepsy g...

A battered wife seeks refuge in her estranged mother to escape her abusive husband. However, she finds herself pressured to return to him. Will she give in or fight back this time?...

The story of mysterious super heroine Dynamic Venus. Appearing to be an abused housewife, in reality she's an alien that feeds on her husband's abuse to fuel her super powers....

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

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A young woman deals with a self-centered, abusive boyfriend....

A lonely and failed musician gets to know a young woman who lives in a next-door apartment, a victim of sexual and domestic abuse by her husband. On the anniversary of her mother's death, the woman shares a dish of fish soup with him and they spend s...

A cartel member gets revenge on his enemies....

Stanley is a bright, but socially inept, young introvert who faces several kinds of abuse from his father and sister and, as a result, begins to show the early telling signs of a serial killer....

Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence. She questions victims and abusers to try and understand how deep the issues surrounding domestic abuse are for those who have survived and those currently...

A look at the normalization of violence through footage depicting scenes that are representative of the subject matter, while a typical story of abuse unfolds, this one can only have an disturbing ending....

A naive girl with dreams of stardom, marries a powerful man, who abuses her while running a foundation that protects abused women....

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