Child Abuse Movies

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that...

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...

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

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

Connects seven stories of children facing different forms of violence, exploring how unresolved childhood trauma can lead to struggles in adulthood,...

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...

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

A happily married couple’s life turns into trauma after their eight-year-old daughter is raped. Will the family be able to put their lives back...

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.

A look at the Turpin family case

Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An...

In a split narrative, a young man follows two paths: his father's dream of him becoming a cop, and his own dream of becoming a rapper

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost...

A woman on the brink of a breakdown kidnaps an abused boy, and they embark on a life-changing adventure together – as the cops and their...

The jaw-dropping story of Carl Beech, a former nurse from Gloucester who claimed he had been sexually abused by a group of prominent men in the 1970s...

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

The film follows five years in the life of a young girl as she struggles against an onslaught of good intentions. From her first encounter with the...

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

Lea, at 10 years old, still wets her bed. Gloria, her mother, divorced and almost absent, is looking for a wet nurse. Along comes Maria, a young girl...

Four intertwined stories address different views of child sexual abuse and child pornography on the Internet.