Child Abuse Movies, Movies about Child Abuse

Here we've displayed a list of the best Child Abuse films : Udaan(2010), Nobody Knows(2004), The Night of the Hunter(1955), Slumdog Millionaire(2008), Shoplifters(2018), Dark Days(2000), Happiness(1998), David Copperfield(1935), Notes on a Scandal(2006), Ladybird, Ladybird(1994), Kisses(2008), The Tale(2018) ... ...

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Udaan

Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.

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Nobody Knows

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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The Night of the Hunter

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

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Slumdog Millionaire

A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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Shoplifters

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.

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Dark Days

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

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Happiness

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

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David Copperfield

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

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Notes on a Scandal

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.

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Ladybird, Ladybird

This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to ... See full summary »

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Kisses

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

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The Tale

A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.

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Natural Born Killers

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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Sparrows

Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

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Oranges and Sunshine

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

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Hollow Reed

Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah and her new partner Frank. It is not long... See full summary »

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Begin Again

12-yr-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home & placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, & future. She will meet numerous struggles along the way.

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Nordstrand

NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from... See full summary »

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The Pledge

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

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The Regeneration

A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.

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Marion Bridge

Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.

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Mockingbird Don't Sing

Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl that was locked in a room for over 12 years.

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The Spikes Gang

Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches them the trade.

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Case 39

A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.

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Flowers in the Attic

Children are hidden away under an attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

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Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki

Aarti lives with her only son Avinash. When Avinash falls in love and decides to get married, she tells him the truth about his father's death.

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Broken Blossoms

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".

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Ed Gein

The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.

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Pet Sematary Two

A teenage boy and his father move to his recently-deceased mother's hometown, where they encounter the ancient Native American cemetery with the power to raise the dead.

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The Banished

A disabled man is haunted by the torture he suffered as a child when his terminally ill half-sister returns to their small Upstate New York town seeking answers to why their mother ... See full summary »

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