Mistreatment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mistreatment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, disturbing, realistic, serious, rough and independent film films and TV shows about / with mistreatment, violence, cruelty, death, female nudity, sadism, blood, nude, nudity and torture plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mistreatment: Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), For My Brother (2014), Nathalie: Escape from Hell (1978), An American Crime (2007), Lullaby of the Earth (1976), The Class (2007), Mysterious Skin (2004), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), The Afflicted (2011), Hard Candy (2005).
Best films
New films
| The Blood Lady (2018) | 6.5 | |
| Weekend (2013) | 5.9 | |
| In the Mud (2025) | 6.3 | |
| Hoops (2020) | 6.0 | |
| The Eyes of My Mother (2016) | 6.2 |
List of mistreatment movies
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, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, touching, suspense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, child prostitution, child abuse, brothers, sexual perversion, human trafficking, pedophilia, nude boy, mistreatment, boy, incest, father son relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A beautiful American doctor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp uses her skill to save the life of an SS officer, who falls in love with her. However, a sadistic female SS officer considers him her personal property, and has no compunction about ...
Style:
sensual
Plot:
lesbian sex, female prisoner, lesbianism, erotica, sexual perversion, women in prison, nazism, nazi, sexual sadism, swastika, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, bleak, brutal, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, captivity, murder, threat, dysfunctional family, children, court, courtroom drama, domestic violence, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
mistreatment, cutting one's own hair, stealing, female fight, food, flashback, blood, fire, rain, prostitute, beach, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style:
serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
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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
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, brutal, controversial, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
nun, convent, catholic church, life is a bitch, corporal punishment, evil nun, human spirit, punishment, religion, catholic orphanage, sexual harassment, violence against women ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, latin america
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother (imdb.com)
Style:
disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
abuse, danger, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, domestic disturbance, siblings relations, alcohol abuse, serial killer, religion, mental illness, torture ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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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, independent film, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, torture, manipulation, pedophile, vigilantism, age difference, female vigilante, pedophilia, justice, sexual abuse, home invasion ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, y2k, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, gory, torture, violence, macabre, sadism, incest, perversion, controversy, insanity, murder ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Isabell and Rafael are going on holiday. On their trip, they pick up young Lisa, who is completely unaware of Rafael’s violent vein, and of his passion for humbling others.
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
female nudity, rape, torment, very little dialogue, cruelty, sexual assault, assault, nihilism, murder of a nude woman, pain, female victim, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
To improve the morale of the German officers, a train with beautiful girls is arranged to entertain them when on leave.
Style:
suspense, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot:
oral sex, nazi, world war two, sexual perversion, public nudity, forced prostitution, sexploitation, fondling, lesbian sex, female pubic hair, brothel, lesbian interest ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
master criminal, serial killer, dangerous attraction, gambling, homicidal maniac, murder, vengeance, woman in danger, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, murderer ...
Place:
rome italy, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman becomes suspicious when her adopted daughter's birth mother reenters her life and starts to display increasingly erratic behavior.
Style:
suspense, captivating
Plot:
adopted daughter, birth mother, suspicious wife, bad influence, mother daughter relationship, suspicion, family relations, life, mistreatment, family in danger, adoptive mother, foster child ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, psychotronic, period drama
Plot:
undercover, women in prison, prison, women's prison, parole officer, confined, mistreatment, danger, injustice, investigation, female protagonist, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Style:
historical drama, heartbreaking, period piece, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
native american, boarding school, indigenous people, kidnapping, native, racism, genocide, colonialism, identity, resilience, assimilation, trauma ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.
Style:
extreme horror, disturbing, sadistic, controversial, black and white ...
Plot:
sadism, perversity, captivity, misogyny, sexual cruelty, torture, sex, violence, sexual torture, mercilessness, prostitute, kidnapped woman ...
Time:
year 2016
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Germany, Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
Style:
heroic, colorful, light hearted, anime, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
journey, children, shoemaker, friendship, loyalty, talking animal, bravery, escape, perseverance, coming of age, rescue, mistreatment ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.
Style:
lighthearted, buddy comedy, feel good, romantic comedy, retro ...
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, poverty, casino, friendship, showbiz, heist gone wrong, farce, loyalty, mistreatment, celebrity culture, urban ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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876
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her ...
Style:
dark comedy, disturbing, absurd, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
body horror, macabre, obsession, insecurity, outcast, social isolation, character study, jealousy, humiliation, satire, identity, mistreatment ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
escapades, friendship, orphan, imaginary, magic, mischievous children, police, youth, young heroes, abuse, rejuvenation, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, venice
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style:
disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, courtroom drama, mental institution, mental health, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, price of justice, hospital, prodigy ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, year 1957, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place:
florida, usa, oklahoma, miami, korea
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
humiliation, danger, bullying, cruelty, desire, voyeurism, teenage girl, serial killer, missing person, boarding school, woman in danger, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
france, europe, south of france
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence, prison, women's prison, women in prison, brutality, female prisoner, deviant sex, death, forced sex, sadism, cruelty, lesbian rape ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Five female prisoners forge a unique bond after a deadly accident... until corruption and turf wars within a ruthless prison threaten to destroy them.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, emotional, intense, tense
Plot:
women's prison, power struggle, survival, corruption, organized crime, betrayal, violence, female friendship, abuse of power, sisterhood, moral ambiguity, anti hero ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
spooky, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, rapist, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, confinement indoors, strong violent content, rape, vengeance, male nudity, gang bang, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
balkan, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
Style:
bleak, rough, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot:
countryside, world war two, child abuse, boy, holocaust, twins, starvation, wartime life, teenage life, life is a bitch, nazi, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1944
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, period piece, sexy, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, date night ...
Plot:
cinderella story, love and romance, female protagonist, cinderella, royalty, prince, class differences, love story, love, medieval, arranged marriage, step siblings ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 90s, year 1998, 50s ...
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Style:
horror comedy, slasher, scary, dark comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, kidnapping, countryside, nothing goes right, ransom, backwoods, gangster, danger, murder, chase, perfect crime, confined ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe, england, britain
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