Domestic Abuse Movies

Laura Ullman, a single mother, kills her abusive ex-boyfriend and turns the gun on her son when he threatens to call the police. Paul leaves home to...

A battered wife seeks refuge in her estranged mother to escape her abusive husband. However, she finds herself pressured to return to him. Will she...

A short film about domestic abuse (coercive control, gaslighting, domestic violence).

The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family.

Eleonora is trapped in her marriage with Achilleas. Her brother, Vagelis, unwillingly offers her a possible way out.

Amelia falls in love with Dan, but she is fighting to escape a past that threatens to repeat itself. Can Amelia’s new relationship survive the...

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

In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot to escape their homes to start a new life somewhere...

Three objects are used in a manner in which they weren't supposed to be. Something unprecedented happens: armed with a voice and conscience, these...

A girl with a traumatic past blurs the line between psychopath and vigilante.

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

Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence. She questions victims and abusers to try and...

'Inertia' tells the story of one woman's navigation through a nocturnal city on her way home after drinks with colleagues. The film also examines how...

Set in Santiago de Chile in the 50's and divided into three stories. The first story is about a young woman who has just discovered that she's...

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

Play about middle class domestic abuse.

A young woman visits a spiritualist medium in order to contact her dead husband for one final goodbye.