Movies: Child abuse

Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt....

Penn State football icon Joe Paterno went from revered patriarch to reviled pariah. A look back, now, ten years after the Penn State sex abuse scandal....

A group of aging former classmates begin a quest for justice when they learn from one another just how many of them had been abused as schoolboys....

1905: Syphilis and prostitution flourish in a small town somewhere in the Danube monarchy. In the midst of the night stands Marie, a young prostitute, who has learned how to live in this shady environment. Marie's encounters with johns have many face...

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Four boys survive on the seedy night streets of St Kilda’s red-light district in Australia in the 1980s, turning tricks for a feed and drugs. The fragile balance is broken when an act of betrayal pushes the boys to take action....

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children....

Trying to escape their past, Lee enters college only to meet an extension of the painful history looming over them....

She longs to be like her idol, ‘Rose.,’ Mina, a middle school student, starts working at Motel Rose because of her family’s financial difficulties. The motel in a back-alley red light district downtown. There, while doing the cleaning., Mina meets ‘H...

A journalist uncovers a tale of abuse whilst investigating witchcraft accusations in a remote village....

A heartfelt story about 3 separate family struggles. While Noah's parents have a difficult time saving their marriage, they struggle to understand what it takes to raise their 4 year old son with Autism. Alongside that, after being diagnosed with Leu...

In a society where children are not heard and traditions are not to be questioned, the peaceful life of a 5-year-old is disturbed by a terrible event that forces her to find a way to recover peace and save her loved ones....

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Four intertwined stories address different views of child sexual abuse and child pornography on the Internet....

The four adult heroes and heroines of the film, who were selected in a casting call posted on TV, speak candidly on camera from the very beginning of their memories. Through individual stories, they describe their childhoods, family backgrounds, life...

A woman, desperate and alone, turns to a video dating service with shocking results....

After moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions....

THE FOUL TRUTH charts the story of a young teenager - Thoithoiba (played by Priyakanta Laishram), who is a survivor of male sexual assault. The story revolves around the social stigma and discrimination attached to male sexual assault/male rape....

Terrified of stories of girls bleeding to death, young Tanzanian children face a terrible choice: whether to submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage, or risk their lives and run away from home. Rhobi Samwelly, a brave local hero, stand...

Gives voice to the experiences of Irish institution survivors and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke. Silke was fostered out of the St. Mary, Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam at the age of 9 to the Killileas, a pro...