Topic: Sexual Abuse

Direction Ingmar Bergman

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

Plot 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...

Direction Chris Morris · Michael Cumming · Tristram Shapeero

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

Plot 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...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Martin McDonagh

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

Plot After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial...

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

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

Plot TV Miniseries. 8 Episodes. The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path...

Direction Steffi Niederzoll

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

Plot 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...

Direction Lukas Moodysson

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

Plot Sixteen-year-old Lilya lives in a poor and dreary suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Her mother has moved to the States with a new man and Lilya is waiting...

Direction Andrew Jarecki

Plot The Friedmans (Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse Friedman and Howard Friedman) seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award-winning schoolteacher, his...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Todd Solondz

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

Plot When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a...

Direction Joaquím Jordá

Plot 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...

Direction Hernán Zin

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Eiichi Yamamoto

Plot 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:...

Direction Albert Solé

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Philippa Lowthorpe

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

Plot 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...

Direction John Madden

Cast Helen Mirren · Beatie Edney · Robert Glenister · Lesley Sharp

Plot Jane Tennison's promotion to Superintendent turns out to put her in charge of an investigation and search for an abducted baby. She gets more involved in it than she intended...

Direction Tom McCarthy

Cast Michael Keaton · Mark Ruffalo · Rachel McAdams · Liev Schreiber

Plot The true story of how in 2002 the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to...