Topic: Sexual Abuse

Direction Eduard Solà · Júlia de Paz · Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Cast Nagore Aranburu · Pedro Casablanc · Miguel Bernardeau · Iván Pellicer

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2024). 4 Episodes. After 30 years of marriage and two children together, Miren leaves the marital home and denounces her husband for continuous rape. This serious accusation forces the children to choose between believing their mother or supporting...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Birgitta Valberg · Gunnel Lindblom · Birgitta Pettersson

Synopsis Set in 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of...

Direction Chris Morris · Michael Cumming · Tristram Shapeero

Cast Chris Morris · Mark Heap · Kevin Eldon · Doon Mackichan

Synopsis TV Series (1997). 1 season. 7 episodes. Controversal spoof of current-affairs TV and the role of celebrity in the UK. The series was repeated in 2001 along with a new show. It tackled paedophilia and the moral panic in parts...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Thomas Bo Larsen · Annika Wedderkopp · Alexandra Rapaport

Synopsis Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a passing remark. A random...

Direction David E. Kelley · Jean-Marc Vallée · Andrea Arnold

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Nicole Kidman · Shailene Woodley · Alexander Skarsgård

Synopsis TV Series (2017-2019). 2 Seasons. 14 Episodes. Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, the darkly comedic murder mystery centers on three mothers (Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman & Shailene Woodley) of kindergartners in the same class who...

Direction Martin McDonagh

Cast Frances McDormand · Woody Harrelson · Sam Rockwell · John Hawkes

Synopsis Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) follows Mildred Hayes, a grieving mother who rents three roadside billboards to pressure the local police into solving her daughter's brutal murder. The provocative signs ignite a firestorm in the small town, drawing sharp...

Direction Susannah Grant · Michael Chabon · Ayelet Waldman · Lisa Cholodenko

Cast Merritt Wever · Kaitlyn Dever · Toni Collette · Vanessa Bell Calloway

Synopsis Unbelievable (TV Miniseries) (2019) follows the harrowing journey of a young woman, Marie, who reports being raped but is disbelieved by the police, leading to her recanting the story. Years later, in a different state, detectives Grace and Karen investigate...

Direction Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Cast Alix Poisson · Jonathan Turnbull · Julien Frison · Louise Orry-Diquéro

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2023). 6 Episodes. Late 80’s in Northern France, women are being sexually assaulted along the same road by the Samber river – with attacks taking place early mornings and in a similar style. The police fail to get...

Direction Steffi Niederzoll

Cast Reyhaneh Jabbari · Fereydoon Jabbari · Shole Pakravan · Sharare Jabbari

Synopsis After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This film reopens the case.

Direction Lukas Moodysson

Cast Oksana Akinshina · Artiom Bogucharskij · Pavel Ponomarev · Elina Beninson

Synopsis Lilja 4-ever (2002) follows Lilja, a 16-year-old girl living in a bleak post-Soviet town. Abandoned by her mother and struggling with poverty, she finds solace in her friendship with a young boy named Volodya. As her life spirals into despair,...

Direction Andrew Jarecki

Synopsis Capturing the Friedmans (2003) is a gripping documentary that explores the unsettling case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman, a father and son accused of child molestation in 1980s Long Island. Through home videos, interviews, and court footage, the film delves...

Direction John Ridley · Clement Virgo · Gregg Araki · Julie Hébert

Cast Felicity Huffman · Timothy Hutton · Regina King · Lili Taylor

Synopsis It takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, where a public high school student accuses several members of a private school's championship basketball team of sexually assaulting him and then taking photos of the incident and posting them online.

Direction Todd Solondz

Cast Jane Adams · Lara Flynn Boyle · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Cynthia Stevenson

Synopsis Happiness (1998) is a darkly comedic and provocative drama that interweaves the lives of several suburban characters, each grappling with their own secrets, desires, and struggles. The film explores themes of loneliness, obsession, and the pursuit of happiness in ways...

Direction Joaquím Jordá

Synopsis The film describes the scandal of pederastria that exploded in the neighborhood of the Raval of Barcelona and the trial that took place some years afterwards. Jordà analyzes the mechanisms of the justice and of the world of the medias.

Direction Hernán Zin

Synopsis A documentary examining the global phenomenon of rape as a "weapon of war" in various conflict zones, including Bosnia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Direction Hwang Dong-hyuk

Cast Gong Yoo · Jeong Yu-mi · Kim Hyeon-soo · Kim Ji-yeong

Synopsis Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by...

Direction Eiichi Yamamoto

Synopsis The third and last of the Mushi Pro Animerama films, The Belladonna of Sadness is an adaptation of French historian Jules Michelet`s novel of the story of Joan of Arc: La Sorcière. The obvious and salient feature of this film...

Direction Albert Solé

Synopsis Through interviews with victims, members of the clergy, journalists, and experts, this series looks at the accusations of child abuse against catholic institutions in Spain.

Direction Alex Gibney

Cast Patrick Wall · Geoffrey Robertson · Jeff Anderson · Thomas Doyle

Synopsis Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican. MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN...

Direction Philippa Lowthorpe

Cast Maxine Peake · Lesley Sharp · Molly Windsor · Ria Zmitrowicz

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2017). 3 Episodes. Based on three young girls who were groomed, sexually abused and trafficked by British Pakistani men in Rochdale and of the failure of the authorities to do anything about it.