Physical Abuse Movies

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...

Talia is a 13-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a boxer. But there is an obstacle more difficult to overcome than a boxing ring: to live with an...

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of...

A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal...

Photographic story of abuse in a couple.

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane....

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the...

A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who...

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the...

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish...

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also...

Sir Elton John looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this emotionally charged, full-circle journey. As he...

Japan conquers China just before WW2 starts. Chinese women are captured and placed in concentration camps, where they are tortured and humiliated....

Ofoma suffers relentless and brutal abuse from his stepfather, Ehis. Ofoma’s mother, Endurance, endures her son’s suffering in silence,...

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true...

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his...