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 psychological, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful and weird films and TV shows about / with childhood sexual abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, family relations, suspense, rape, abuse, violence, coming of age and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
childhood sexual abuse
TOP 10 movies tagged as childhood sexual abuse: The Tale (2018), Princess (2006), Untold (2014), Something About Amelia (1984), On the Doll (2007), Not in My Family (1993), The Strange Ones (2017), Miss Violence (2013), Short Term 12 (2013), Sara (2014).
List of childhood sexual abuse movies
19K
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:
suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sexual abuse, investigation, first sexual experience, mother daughter relationship, pedophile, sexual abuse, memory, forced sex, child rape, manipulation, loss of virginity, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
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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:
realistic, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
social issues, child abuse, family problems, childhood sexual abuse, porn star, life is a bitch, vigilantism, rivalry, clergy, addiction, death in the family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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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
Plot:
military, lesbian, violence, friendship, love, mother daughter relationship, hate crime, veteran, family relations, post traumatic stress disorder, suspense, flashback ...
Place:
florida
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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, erotic, disturbing, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
torture, sex, rape, obsession, libertine, sexual perversion, sexual abuse, sexual torture, brutality, kidnapping, fascism, atrocity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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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:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, sexy ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, abuse, woman in danger, childhood sexual abuse, innocence lost, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, kids in trouble, sexual dysfunction, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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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, suspenseful, bleak, anime ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, victim, life is a bitch, lifestyle, sexual relations, revenge, youth, childhood trauma, rape, fetish, prostitution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
Plot:
incestuous relationship, repressed memory, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse, childhood memory, depression, memory, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, child abuse
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Genre: Drama, 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, suspenseful, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Plot:
motel, cave, boy, road trip, man boy relationship, sibling relationship, gay, child abuse, investigation, pretending to be someone else, psychopath, hiding place ...
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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, psychological, suspenseful, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, child prostitution, incest rape, suicide, perversion, incest, child abuse, family problems, parents and children, investigation, child suicide, birthday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe
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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:
emotional, compassionate, sad, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, teenager, social worker, suicide attempt, depression, adolescence, foster child, self mutilation, self harm, coming of age, troubled teen, mental illness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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670
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:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, crime solving, social problems, suspense, investigation, child prostitution, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, journalism, female journalist, intrigue ...
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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:
captivating, funny, humorous, light, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, daughter, mother daughter relationship, new life, family relations, changing lives, mother and daughter, drastic change of life, coming of age, neighbor, woman, tv show ...
Time:
2020s
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378
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.
Plot:
altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, child molester, catholic church, coming of age, youth, lawsuit, pedophile priest, boy, little girl, father son relationship, doctor ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
louisiana
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163K
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, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, torture, manipulation, mind game, age difference, pedophilia, revenge, sexual abuse, child abuse, pedophile, kidnapping, vigilantism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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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, captivating, psychological, non-linear, cult film
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
child rape, abused child, pedophile, little girl, female nudity, child sexual abuse, traumatic childhood, psychoanalysis, pedophilia, father daughter relationship, court, psychologist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
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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, psychological, depressing, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, gay, homosexual, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexual rape, child molestation, youth, male rape, homosexuality, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1987 ...
Place:
kansas, new york, usa
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464K
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, depressing, emotional, twist ending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, loss of child, murder, suspense, sexual abuse, childhood, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, child abuse, death in the family, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston
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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
Plot:
lawyer, pedophile, investigative reporter, justice, child molestation, struggle, trust, friendship, child abuse, cover up, truth, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2001, year 1991 ...
Place:
australia
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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, surreal, psychological, serious, dark ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, rape, pedophile, loss of daughter, death in the family, investigation, missing child, suspense, murder mystery, death of child, loss of family member ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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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, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, sex maniac, murder, rape, abusive mother, emotional abuse, violence, killing spree, mental illness, psychological abuse, mother son incest, disposing of a dead body ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand
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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:
romantic, captivating, disclosure, entertaining
Plot:
prejudice, secret, lie, investigation, brother sister relationship, loyalty, love story, relationships, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
japan
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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, childhood sexual abuse, masturbation, stroke, homosexual, gay couple, depression, argument, lsd, repressed homosexual, promiscuity, mother son relationship ...
Place:
oxford university
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 302 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the Patrick Molrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Style:
ironic, psychological, captivating, surreal, anime ...
Plot:
mental illness, alcohol abuse, father son relationship, child abuse, drug addiction, depression, traumatic childhood, childhood trauma, suspense, loneliness, violence, millionaire ...
Time:
2000s, 60s, 80s, 90s
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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, tense, captivating
Plot:
family relations, mental illness, mother son relationship, matriarchy, dysfunctional family, family problems, matriarch, disappearance, female protagonist, suspense, tragic event, mysterious disappearance ...
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91K
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:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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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, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, child abuse, gay rape, homosexual rape, closeted gay, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
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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:
surreal, psychological, sexy, art house, satirical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mental illness, male nudity, women, feminist, obsession, girl, parenthood, surrealism, art, twists and turns, inspiration ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
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750
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
police investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, haunted by the past, dishonesty, death of wife, chase, sex crime, murder, spirit, mysterious character, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
normandy, europe, france
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