Childhood sexual abuse movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant childhood sexual abuse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, disturbing and suspense films and TV shows about / with childhood sexual abuse, child abuse, family relations, sexual abuse, flashback, rape, coming of age, life is a bitch, child sexual abuse and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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childhood sexual abuse movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as childhood sexual abuse: The Tale (2018), Untold (2014), Something About Amelia (1984), On the Doll (2007), Princess (2006), Miss Violence (2013), Little Tickles (2018), Short Term 12 (2013), Not in My Family (1993), Judgment (1990).

List of childhood sexual abuse movies

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 7.2
 20K
The Tale (2018)
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: psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, mother daughter relationship, investigation, pedophile, first sexual experience, sexual abuse, loss of virginity, forced sex, child rape, 13 year old, woman, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 1973, 70s
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 6.7
 42
Untold (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women veterans encourages her to peel away her families' lies and confront her mother who holds the ...
Style: unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, military, lesbian, post traumatic stress disorder, violence, love, friendship, mother daughter relationship, family relations, veteran, hate crime, hate ...
Place: florida
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Something About Amelia (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie follows the Bennett family after Amelia tells her school counselor that her father has sexually abused her.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, sexual
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abuse, woman in danger, incest, sexual content, sex maniac, life is a bitch, innocence lost, youth, family problems, kids in trouble ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 5.3
 2K
On the Doll (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On The Doll is a story of the victims of child abuse, and the pain it visits upon their later lives. With interweaving stories following victims and victimizers, the film depicts the variety of experiences of abuse.
Style: rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, anime ...
Plot: pedophile, victim, lifestyle, life is a bitch, sexual relations, revenge, youth, child abuse, childhood trauma, sex work, rape, prostitution ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.8
 3K
Princess (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a ...
Style: adult animation, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: porn star, social issues, child abuse, family problems, addiction, death in the family, vigilantism, life is a bitch, clergy, rivalry, childhood sexual abuse, child in peril ...
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 7.1
 10K
Miss Violence (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, child prostitution, perversion, incest rape, suicide, child abuse, incest, family problems, parents and children, domineering husband, teen suicide, childhood sexual abuse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Little Tickles (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Odette is eight, she likes to dance and draw. Why would she be wary of a friend of her parents who offers to play "Tickling"? Once an adult, Odette frees her word, and plunges body and soul into her career as a dancer, in the whirlwind of ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, non-linear
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: child rape, pedophile, child sexual abuse, psychoanalysis, pedophilia, traumatic childhood, abused child, little girl, police, trial, father daughter relationship, courtroom ...
Time: 80s
Place: france
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 7.9
 92K
Short Term 12 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style: sad, compassionate, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, depression, social worker, adolescence, teenager, suicide attempt, self mutilation, troubled teen, foster child, coming of age, mental illness, self harm ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Not in My Family (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, repressed memory, sexual abuse, incestuous relationship, therapy, depression, memory, childhood memory, child abuse, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, sex with daughter ...
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 6.5
 428
Judgment (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Style: crying
Plot: altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile priest, child molester, coming of age, youth, catholic church, bare chested male, lawsuit, holy communion, boy, little girl ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: louisiana
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The Strange Ones (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style: road movie, rough, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: boy, motel, man boy relationship, pedophile, road trip, sibling relationship, gay, child abuse, pretending to be someone else, psychopath, investigation, on the run ...
Time: year 2017
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 5.6
 167
Favorite Son (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. Frustrated with his waning baseball career, David returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with a local lovely, reaching out to her troubled son. When David is rejected, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, surprise ending
Plot: baseball, small town, troubled youth, single parent, love and romance, wooing, parents and children, homecoming, friendship, hopes, troubled past, childhood memory ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.0
 168K
Hard Candy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: vengeance, torture, manipulation, age difference, pedophilia, sexual abuse, revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, pedophile, child abuse, justice ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, year 2016, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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 8.6
 757
Udaari (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Pakistan
TV show
Story: The drama revolves around two sisters, Sheedan and Sajida. Sheedan is married to Majid. While, Sajida is a widowed wife of Parvez, friend of Imtiaz. Sheedan, a eldest sister, has a daughter, Meeran and a son. Sajida has a daughter, Zebo. Imtiaz ...
Style: suspenseful, dramatic, social, serious
Plot: family relations, girlfriend, marriage, male female relationship, female best friends, friendship, couples, widow, young widow, married woman, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, childhood sexual abuse
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 7.3
 418
Don't Tell (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, independent film
Plot: lawyer, pedophile, investigative reporter, justice, trust, friendship, child molestation, struggle, cover up, child abuse, truth, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1991, year 2001 ...
Place: australia
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 6.4
 680
Sara (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works for the same magazine, chooses ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, intrigue, private investigation, investigation, child prostitution, crime solving, social problems, uncover truth, investigative journalism, female journalist, journalism ...
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008)
Genre: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer under wraps for ...
Plot: gay, stand up comedy, closeted homosexual, gay interest, gay relationship, stroke, childhood sexual abuse, hand job, homosexual, gay couple, depression, argument ...
Time: 1950s
Place: oxford university
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
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, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
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Innocent Love (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, ...
Style: captivating, romantic, disclosure
Plot: loyalty, secret, brother sister relationship, lie, prejudice, investigation, love story, orphan, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, male female relationship ...
Place: japan
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Patrick Melrose (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 302 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Patrick Molrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Style: ironic, suspense, captivating, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, father son relationship, child abuse, drug addiction, depression, alcohol abuse, traumatic childhood, childhood trauma, loneliness, violence, millionaire, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 80s, 60s, 90s
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 6.8
 97K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
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Who's Watching Oliver (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a ...
Style: bleak, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape, serial killer, murder, emotional abuse, violence, sex maniac, sadistic psychopath, killing spree, mental illness, mother son incest, psychological abuse, dead body ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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 7.6
 6K
Saving Grace (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, emotional, detective ...
Plot: sex addict, faith, police detective, religions or cults, police investigation, female detective, self destructing, convict, sexual activity, law enforcement, fighting crime, drinking problem ...
Time: 20th century
Place: oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
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 6.7
 5K
Sweetie (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of ...
Style: cult classic, dark comedy, surreal, psychological, intense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, feminist, mental illness, male nudity, sisters, women, obsession, treehouse, woman peeing, siblings, feminism, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: australia
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We Don't Belong Here (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: family relations, mental illness, tragic event, family problems, dysfunctional family, matriarchy, female protagonist, mysterious disappearance, mother son relationship, disappearance, family tragedy, gay ...
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 6.2
 12K
A Chorus Line (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach (Michael Douglas). After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie (Alyson Reed), who once had a ...
Style: stylized, lyrical, sexy, clever, emotional ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: broadway, showbiz, audition, dancing, music, ballet, rehearsal, ballet school, rise to the top, choreography, dance, choreographer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.2
 4K
Dream Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, child abuse, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, gay rape, gender, homosexual rape, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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Ginny & Georgia (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Angsty and awkward fifteen year old Ginny Miller often feels more mature than her thirty year old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and ...
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: daughter, teenager, mother daughter relationship, family relations, teen romance, drastic change of life, changing lives, coming of age, new life, mother and daughter, neighbor, woman ...
Time: 2020s
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