Teen violence movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant teen violence movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing, suspense, bleak and depressing films and TV shows about / with teen violence, child abuse, abusive parent, coming of age, violence, domestic abuse, mother child relationship, physical abuse, youth and domestic violence plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as teen violence: Them (2006), Ken Park (2002), Hold Me Tight (2010), A Little Room for Hope (2018), After Lucia (2012), 15: The Movie (2003), Lilya 4-Ever (2002), The Girl Next Door (2007), Pixote (1980), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996).
Best films
New films
| Central Park (2017) | 3.5 | |
| Them (2006) | 6.3 | |
| After Lucia (2012) | 7.1 | |
| The Family (2013) | 6.3 | |
| Beast Beast (2020) | 6.2 |
List of teen violence movies
34K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style:
scary, tense, creepy, clever, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, stranger, violence, couples, breaking and entering, danger, forest, killer child, isolation, teenage life, invasion, violent ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
I skoletimerne sender Mikkel prøvende blikke til klassens stille og indelukkede pige, Sara, der er smigret over opmærksomheden. Da Mikkel og hans ven Hassan leger flirtende med hende i et frikvarter, bliver Hassans kæreste, Louise, jaloux og ...
Style:
crying
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, snow, male pubic hair, male nudity, student, teenager, father son relationship, school, teen violence, scandinavian girl, sadness, suicide by hanging ...
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
abusive mother, bullying, violent father, kidnapping, teen superhero, abusive parent, boy girl friendship, romantic friendship, parent child relationship, brutality, teenage daughter, family relations ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, suspense, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, society, high school life, missing girl, rape, teenage life, estrangement, social decay, parents and children, social relations, family problems, high school ...
Time:
near future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fast, frenetic, and furious best describe the story of five teenage boys all but abandoned by the system, estranged from any parents, and discarded by life in general. They build a world of there own in which gangs, drugs, fighting, body piercing, ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, bleak, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teen violence, homoeroticism, boys love, friendship, youth, juvenile delinquency, gang, gay, gangster, hardcase students, teenage life, drug dealer ...
Place:
singapore, china, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style:
sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, frightening, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, violence, victim, physical abuse, cruelty, helplessness, abuse, childhood, unsettling ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan, croatia, eastern europe ...
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, coming of age, parents and children, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, pedophile, physical abuse, child molestation, sexual assault ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa
Is relevant?
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, brother sister incest, incest, rape, youth, teenage life, suicide, homosexual, high school life, teenage love, incest rape, social relations ...
Place:
south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style:
sexy, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
abuse, kidnapping, child molester, child prostitution, pedophile, rape, pimp, child abduction, child molestation, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, kidnapped ...
Place:
california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california, florida
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, asthma, teenage love, mother daughter conflict, lesbian, young lovers, coming of age, female friendship, high school, end of friendship, psychological torment, secret life ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of two twelve-year-old girls who attack their friend as a sacrifice to an internet legend, the Suzerain.
Style:
suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, rough, dark ...
Plot:
killer child, middle school, mental illness, urban legend, human sacrifice, children, brutality, internet, murder, sacrifice, teen violence, peer pressure ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.
Style:
intense, tension, ambiguous ending, suspense, southern gothic
Plot:
trauma, small town, character study, coming of age, teen angst, mental health, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, violence, teen violence, family conflict ...
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
B-movie stalwart Eric Spudic directs this story about two bullied high school misfits who exact deadly revenge on those former classmates who did them wrong.
Style:
independent film, teen horror, slasher, psychological, grim
Plot:
revenge, bullying, revenge motive, retribution, high school, misfit, high school drama, cruelty, teenager, teen violence, violent, vigilante justice ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The New Tomorrow is a New Zealand-based television series produced by Cloud 9 and is a sequel to the cult television series The Tribe. The show was created by Raymond Thompson and premiered on 17 September 2005 on the Seven Network in ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, virus, youth, life is a bitch, survival, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, problem, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, social problems ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
Style:
teen, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, couples, teenager, cheerleading, puberty, gay relationship, lesbian, teenage love, friendship, teenage boy, lgbt ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, realistic, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
feminist, infidelity, mental illness, satire, love triangle, extramarital affair, psychiatrist, adultery, marital problem, housewife, teen violence, abusive parent ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
Style:
sad, emotional
Plot:
abusive wife, abuse, abusive relationship, domestic violence, domestic abuse, abusive husband, men's rights, marital abuse, husband wife relationship, victim, abusive parent, sexualized violence ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When her elderly mother dies - apparently happy but in curious circumstances - her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
abuse, abusive parent, physical abuse, teen violence, domestic violence, domestic abuse, death of mother, reconciliation, feminist, urban setting, female investigator, hairy bush ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style:
depressing, rough, realistic, bleak, controversial ...
Plot:
drug addict, drug addiction, profanity, drug abuse, cocaine, proles, lower class, wife abuse, heroin, addiction, dysfunctional family, drug ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, england, europe
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115K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
surreal, psychological, scary, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, coma, mind game, investigation, race against time, sadomasochism, virtual reality, fbi, psychiatrist, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
domestic violence, violent husband, starting over, family in crisis, wife beater, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, siblings relations, therapy, understanding, family problems, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2003
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, depressing ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, child molester, child rape, child molestation, prostitute, sex, coming of age, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
indiana, asia, tennessee
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style:
disturbing, lgbt cinema, depressing, independent film, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, gay, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexuality, homosexual, child molestation, lgbtq, male rape, homosexual rape, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place:
kansas, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, child in peril, danger, gory, suburbs, brutality, missing child, investigation, serial killer, extreme, body horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After killing her abusive husband, a young woman finds that it is harder to move on with her life than she immediately thought she would be, which yields horrific results for those closest to her.
Style:
disturbing, scary, rough, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot:
domestic violence, rape, revenge, loner, loss, manslaughter, paranoia, psychosis, grief, tragic event, rape and revenge, teen violence ...
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