Movies: Domestic violence

Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence. She questions victims and abusers to try and understand how deep the issues surrounding domestic abuse are for those who have survived and those currently...

Scars Unseen is a ‘triumph of the human spirit’ documentary following three women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the statistic of 1 in 4 women affected by domestic violence went up to 1 in...

Clara meets John at a particularly vulnerable time in her life. She is "blinded" by love and he becomes her world. The intense relationship then becomes violent and Clara is forced to take drastic action to protect herself and their son Chris....

Five women tell their « love story ». Each of them had the wonderful experience of ‘love at first sight’ with a man that will become their downfall. The influence settles slowly but strongly. Eventually it turns to violence, protecting the children a...

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend....

Gabriel, a ten-year-old boy, is running through the night. He seems traumatized....

Stacey is a young mother trapped in a violent marriage who wants to see her daughter as Cinderella in the school play but must first escape the nightmare of her own Prince Charming....

Having broken free from the domestic violence she suffered during 39 years of marriage to her ex-husband Amando, Martha tells her granddaughter Daniela, who is beginning her career as a filmmaker, to make a film out of the personal memoirs in which s...

Alberto Luis Galateo was an Argentinian soccer star of the 1930s. But at home, he was abusive towards his family. One Sunday afternoon, three shots stirred up his quiet neighborhood....

This documentary is a sad sight of the reality of child abuse victims who now live in public shelters in Brazil, with stories told by themselves. Children and adolescents who are now in shelters were victims of violence. Most were the victim of the o...

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Aimed at the cause of domestic violence victims with traits of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, this film presents the reality of four women victims of the phenomenon of violence under the manifestations of different types of mistreatment....

Louison, 14 years old, observes the adult world with skepticism but envy. During a family weekend at the seaside, she begins to suspect Pierrick, her sister Emma's boyfriend, of Misaffection. Spying on the young couple, she gradually discovers the ph...

Asian Women's Shelter, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award) - a cornerstone in the Asian Pacific Islander and anti-domestic violence communities, for its dedication to assisting Asian women a...

A short animated film in which five young people tell of their experiences of domestic violence. Emma and her mother escape from a violent father by moving to a refuge. Jamie sees the effect on his mother of his father's violence. For Sidra, the viol...

"Cinnamon" is the story of a newly elected mayor who has been invited to attend a chat show. Whilst in the waiting room, awaiting to go to the interview of the chat show, the young mayor is reminded by the smell of cinnamon of his childhood where he ...