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Mommie Dearest (1981)
, 2h9Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about television, Films about child abuse
Actors Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva
Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4:00 a.m. and engages in a strict morning ritual: scrubbing her face and arms with soap and boiling hot water, then plunging her face into a bowl of rubbing alcohol and ice to close the pores. When Helga (Alice Nunn), a new maid, thinks she has Joan's living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minor detail that she overlooked and loses her temper.
One Missed Call (2003)
, 1h52Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films, Films about child abuse
Actors Kō Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Anna Nagata, Kazue Fukiishi, Renji Ishibashi, Yutaka Matsushige
College student Yoko Okazaki receives a phone call accompanied by an eerie, unusual ringtone, which goes to voicemail. The call is from Yoko's own number, dated two days to the future. Yoko and her friend Yumi Nakamura listen to the voicemail, hearing Yoko's voice chatting casually, followed by a horrendous scream and then dead silence. Two days later, Yoko calls Yumi that night to discuss shopping plans. Yumi realizes that Yoko is on the exact routine as the voicemail they'd heard before, but can only hear Yoko screaming after she is violently dragged off onto a speeding commuter train, which kills her. Her head then vomits a red candy upon death as her detached hand, still clutching her phone, calls a number. Several days later, Yoko's boyfriend, Kenji Kawai, reveals to Yumi that he had also received a voicemail accompanied by the same ringtone as Yoko's right after her death. Yumi then watches as Kenji is pulled into an empty elevator shaft to his death. He also spits out a red candy and calls a number, like Yoko.
Child 44 (2015)
, 2h17Directed by Daniel Espinosa
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about children, Serial killer films, Films about child abuse
Actors Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Philip Seymour Hoffman
During Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, Ministry of State Security (MGB) Agent and war hero Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) uncovers a strange and brutal series of child murders. MGB leadership refuses to acknowledge the deaths as murders, however, because Soviet doctrine states that only capitalism creates serial killers. The son of Leo's partner is murdered by the serial killer, and during Leo's investigation, his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), is accused of being disloyal to the state. Leo suspects that his amoral and ambitious enemy in the MGB, Vasili Nikitin, is behind the charges. Leo refuses to support the accusation, and he is forced to take a demeaning militia position in the town of Volsk. Raisa accompanies him and must work as a janitor.
Wetlands (2013)
, 1h45Directed by David Wnendt
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about anarchism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Films about child abuse
Actors Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse, Edgar Selge
18-year-old Helen uses vegetables for masturbation and believes that body hygiene is overrated in our society. She provokes others by saying and doing things most people would not even dare to imagine.
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
, 1h6Directed by Claude Barras
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about child abuse
Actors Michel Vuillermoz, Jean-Loup Horwitz, Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page, Amy Sedaris
Un petit garçon termine de dessiner un cerf-volant à l'étage d'une maison remplie de canettes de bière vides. Il empile ensuite des canettes pour en faire une pyramide, mais le tas finit par s'écrouler et par rouler dans l'escalier. Au rez-de-chaussée, une femme ivre regarde une série sentimentale à la télévision. C'est la mère du petit garçon, qu'elle appelle « Courgette ». Au bruit, elle se met en colère et commence à monter l'escalier menant à l'étage, en annonçant au garçon qu'elle va le battre. Effrayé, le garçon referme brusquement la trappe sur la tête de sa mère qui tombe dans l'escalier et ne bouge plus. Au commissariat, un policier, Raymond, prend la déposition du petit garçon qui s'appelle Icare, mais préfère être appelé Courgette. Il n'a plus de père, mais il l'a dessiné sur son cerf-volant qui ne le quitte jamais. Raymond explique à Courgette que sa mère « est partie » et qu'il va l'emmener dans un endroit où vivent des enfants comme lui, qui n'ont plus ni père ni mère : un orphelinat.
Radio Flyer (1992)
, 1h54Directed by Richard Donner, David M. Evans
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about domestic violence, Films about child abuse
Actors Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, Tom Hanks, John Heard, Adam Baldwin
Mike (Tom Hanks) is observing his two sons fighting; with one insisting that a promise doesn't mean anything. To make them understand that a promise does mean something, he tells them the story of his youth. Young Mike (Elijah Wood), his little brother Bobby (Joseph Mazzello), their mother Mary (Lorraine Bracco) and their German Shepherd Shane move to a new town after their father/husband leaves them. There, Mary marries a new man named Jack (Adam Baldwin), who likes the others to call him "The King". Unbeknownst to Mary, the King is an alcoholic who often gets drunk and beats Bobby.
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
, 1h47Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about child abuse
The investigation into Arnold Friedman's life started after a federal sting operation, when he received a magazine of child pornography from the Netherlands by mail. In searching his Great Neck, New York home, investigators found a collection of child pornography. After learning that Friedman taught children computer classes from his home, local police began to suspect him of abusing his students.
He Named Me Malala (2015)
, 1h28Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about child abuse, Children's films, Films about child abuse
Trois ans après l'attaque qui l'a laissée en partie sourde et paralysée d'une partie du visage, Malala Yousafzai raconte sa nouvelle vie en Angleterre, à Birmingham où sa famille est réfugiée depuis son attaque. On la suit dans la vie de tous les jours, dont celui où, pour son seizième anniversaire, elle prononce un discours devant l'Organisation des Nations unies. Davis Giggenheim a suivi son quotidien pendant dix-huit mois.
Short Term 12 (2013)
, 1h36Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about child abuse
Actors Brie Larson, John Gallagher, Jr, Kaitlyn Dever, Melora Walters, Rami Malek, Lakeith Stanfield
Grace is the young supervisor of Short Term 12, a group home for troubled teenagers. She lives with her long-term boyfriend and coworker, Mason, but finds it difficult to open up to him emotionally. When Grace finds out she is pregnant, she schedules an appointment for an abortion; she eventually tells an overjoyed Mason about the pregnancy, but not about her plan to have an abortion. At the facility, Grace and Mason focus their efforts on Marcus, a Short Term 12 resident who is about to turn 18 and is struggling with the prospect of leaving the facility.
, 2hDirected by George Tillman Jr., George Tillman, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films, Films about child abuse
Actors Anthony Mackie, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Skylan Brooks, Jennifer Hudson, Ethan Dizon, Jordin Sparks
During a sweltering summer in New York City, 13-year-old Mister’s (Skylan Brooks) hard-living mother (Hudson) is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete (Dizon) alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude. Plus he and Pete have to figure out how to do all of this without money
Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Jeff Anderson
The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted of child molestation and serving seven years in prison, O'Grady was deported to his native Ireland. Berg interviewed him there in 2005 for the film. Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions, and interviews with activists, theologians, psychologists, and lawyers; it suggests that Church officials were aware of O'Grady's crimes, and they took steps to conceal them to protect him and the church.
, 1h38Directed by Asia Argento
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Films about child abuse
Actors Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse, Asia Argento, Marilyn Manson, Peter Fonda, Ben Foster
Sarah (Asia Argento) becomes involved with a series of men who treat her and Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett) poorly, and she uses them as an excuse to abandon her son. She disappears to Atlantic City with her boyfriend, Emerson (Jeremy Renner), and then abandons him; Emerson returns to their home and rapes Jeremiah. After a trip to hospital, Jeremiah's grandmother (Ornella Muti) takes him to a West Virginian radical Christian cult led by his grandfather (Peter Fonda). After he has been three years with the cult, Sarah returns to reclaim the 11-year-old Jeremiah (Dylan and Cole Sprouse).
Pellet (2000)
, 1h28Directed by Achero Mañas
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors Juan José Ballesta, Ana Wagener
Pablo aka "El Bola" (Juan José Ballesta) is a twelve-year-old boy who suffers abuse by his father (Manuel Morón). His violent family situation prevents him from having friends at school until a new kid, Alfredo, arrives at school. The warm, caring atmosphere in Alfredo's family provides a stark contrast to Pablo's oppressive situation under his father. Soon, Pablo finds a different reality in his new friend's family who teaches him to confront with courage his worst fears.
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Pedro Almodóvar, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Pierre-André Boutang, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine
Ce documentaire revient sur une affaire judiciaire de 1977 dans laquelle Roman Polanski avait été condamné pour abus sexuel sur mineure.
In a Glass Cage (1986)
, 1h50Directed by Agustí Villaronga
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about child abuse, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Günter Meisner, Marisa Paredes
Klaus, a former Nazi German doctor who practiced horrific experiments with children during World War II, has continued with his sick attraction for torturing and killing young boys during his exile in a remote village in Catalonia. His latest victim is a child he has tortured and later kills with a blow to the head, taking photographs of the crime. This sadistic act has been witnessed by Angelo, another of Klaus' victims, who has spied him from a window, later stealing the tortured incriminating writings and photographs of the doctor's crimes. Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping from a tower, but he survives. As a result of his failed attempt he is now unable to breathe on his own and is immobile, confined permanently in an iron lung to survive.