Domestic Abuse Movies

Bruises Behind Closed Doors takes its audience into the life of Herbert, an abusive husband who has been secretly in with another woman throws his...

For some people, a new year means new beginnings, but for others it could mean the end of everything...

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of...

The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the...

Women’s struggle unfolds against London as both container and witness.

Three sisters are afforded the opportunity for rediscovery through their grief after losing their father.

While pulling lobster traps from the sea, fishing couple Sara and Ben recover a buoy containing half a million dollars. Ben hopes to use the money on...

A cartel member gets revenge on his enemies.

Heavily pregnant and in the early summer heat, Mina has wandered up into the Montenegrin mountains in search of answers to the problems she is facing...

A child runs into the woods in an attempt to escape Evil.

Following a series of intimate conversations between a former couple who lived through two years of domestic abuse, A Better Man infuses new energy...

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.

Ginanti’s ride home suddenly turns uncomfortable when her taxi driver starts to talk about his sexist point of view about Ginanti’s way...

A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.

To some art is simply a painting, a sketch, perhaps a photograph - but to others, art is pain. That kind of art can't be framed, it has to be...

A librarian's husband and mother-in-law turn out to be psychotically abusive. When the husband mistakenly thinks he has killed her, he dumps her in a...

A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...