Abuse movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant abuse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful and bleak films and TV shows about / with abuse, life is a bitch, violence, psychological drama, child abuse, male nudity, sexualized violence, sexual abuse, coming of age and youth plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as abuse: The Girl Next Door (2007), Gardens of the Night (2008), Sparta (2022), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Chained (2012), The Tale (2018), The Day Will Come (2016), Aurore (2005), Men Don't Tell (1993), Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001).
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New films
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: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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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: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree ...
Style:
serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
abuse, male nudity, judo, wrestling, rabbit, boy, pedophilia, brother, retirement home, identity, boyhood, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sexuality, lust, sex addict, explicit sex, sexual relations, erection, nymphomaniac, sexual exploration, sexual perversion, erotica, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 2013, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
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23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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 between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, misogynist, abuse, kidnapping, slave, serial rapist, psychopath, escape attempt, childhood trauma, isolated house, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, canada
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21K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pedophile, childhood sexual abuse, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual abuse, forced sex, abuse, 13 year old, woman, mother daughter relationship, investigation, child rape ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
mental institution, abuse, torture, journalist, female reporter, investigative reporter, fish out of water, violence, investigative journalism, psychiatrist, social problems, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the ...
Style:
touching, realistic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
abuse, orphanage, bully, brother brother relationship, sexualized violence, violence, brother, mockery, corporal punishment, humiliation, escape, male nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, depressing, art house ...
Plot:
child abuse, stepmother, abuse, stepdaughter, domestic disturbance, physical abuse, life is a bitch, family relations, society, parents and children, hidden truth, trial ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
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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: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
abuse, disability, mistreatment, child abuse, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, family problems, doctors and patients, society, hopes, social misfits ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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 son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed ...
Style:
thought provoking, erotic, erotic drama, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
abuse, patricide, infidelity, adultery, murder, asian history, drowning, sadism, illicit love, erotica, tragedy, impotence ...
Time:
1920s, year 1990, 20th century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, gang rape, abuse, high school, sport team, football team, injustice, youth, evidence, interrogation, investigation, cover up ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 38 min.
TV show
Story:
Jules balances her life of being a college student, while serving up vigilante justice on her school's campus. Until Ophelia, a computer hacker, discovers her secret and entangles herself in Jules' quest for vengeance.
Style:
not serious, humorous, entertaining, light
Audience:
teens
Plot:
girl power, abuse, college, vigilante, revenge, sexual assault, female friendship, bullying, female student, student life, young adult, female vigilante ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A college student suspects that a nurse may harm her lonely, widowed mother.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark ...
Plot:
abuse, family problems, family relations, parents and children, college, isolation, death in the family, danger, couple relations, grief, poisoning, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
abuse, undercover, adultery, infidelity, gangster, police investigation, fighting crime, working undercover, law enforcement, master criminal, rivalry, police corruption ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
Style:
depressing, bleak, suspense, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
abuse, feminist, obnoxious boss, routine, office worker, employer employee relationship, office work, corporation, workplace, employee employee relationship, boss, secretary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greenwich village manhattan new york city, london, beverly hills, salt lake city utah, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
child abuse, juvenile delinquency, abuse, boarding school life, corporal punishment, gay rape, punishment, dedicated educator, child rape, boyhood, reformatory, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
ireland, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
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751
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
After struggling to find employment, Amanda takes a hotel position in a small town where she ends up fighting for her life.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
abuse, trapped, sadistic horror, survival horror, female villain, torture, kidnapping, female protagonist, game of death, sadist, insanity, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Guatemala
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
abuse, escape, social injustice, runaway, abusive father, trauma, 13 year old, violence, teenage girl, social problems, teenage life, problem ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
abuse, violence, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, child abuse, hidden truth, family relations, family problems, learning the truth, life is a bitch, mother and daughter, violent man ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, depravity, incest rape, abuse, rape and revenge, rape, woods, on the run, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of ...
Style:
crying, tripping
Plot:
abuse, dysfunctional family, male nudity, male rape, friendship between boys, coming of age, violence, bullying, teenage boy, gay, friendship, swimming pool ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland, Portugal, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The Captain captures the final act of the Third Reich as Hitler's dream falls completely into ruins. The downfall is the seen through the eyes of a young German soldier who, amidst the chaos, decides to desert.
Style:
thought provoking, tense, black and white, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
impostor, nazi, nazi germany, abuse, deserter, world war two, execution, nazi officer, war criminal, aerial bombardment, german soldier, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 2017, 20th century
Place:
germany, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
aspiring writer, abuse, sex scene, book, sexual harassment, writers, journal, job, secret, one night stand, female protagonist, party ...
Place:
new york, usa
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253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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