Abuse Movies

“No Bruises” is a narrative short film that explores the cyclical nature of emotional abuse, played out in vignette-style glimpses into...

After many years, Julia returns to her childhood home, where as a child she was sexually abused by her recently deceased father. But inhabiting that...

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the...

A much-abused cat really hates living with people, so decides to go to the moon for some peace and quiet.

After their father's death two sisters reunite at their childhood home to uncover forgotten secrets and rip open old wounds.

A serial killer is on the loose. There have been gruesome murders, with victims being ghastly dismembered and their severed body parts dumped in...

An, at times, experimental film about the tainted nature of love set against the Alberta landscape.

Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma...

A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job...

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells...

Northern England, 2004. 16-year-old Mark plays football to stay connected to his late father. But after a teammate’s suicide, the silence...

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers,...

At the age of 10, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped and held captive for eight years by a deranged man. In 2006, she managed to escape, and the world...

It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to...

Ordinary young couple Gemma and Richard have just bought their first home and are expecting a baby. It's all very exciting, and the couple settles in...

Repetition is an illusion. Everything is always new. Legendary street dancer DeRay and spoken-word poet and battle rapper Naima explore a powerful...

A disturbed twenty something grapples with the weight of his past through a series of visits from an all knowing "psychologist".

Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...

Struggling to survive in the cutthroat Los Angeles comedy scene after a devastating fall from grace, a washed-up comedian is forced to return to his...