Play about middle class domestic abuse.
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Susan Fleetwood
Pamela Redman
Christopher Godwin
Michael Redman
Timothy Chasin
Harry Redman
Emily Dean
Amy Redman
Maria Aitken
Ellie Bloom
Charlotte Howard
Helen
Noel Collins
Johnny
Stephanie Cole
Dr. Monday
Richenda Carey
Liz Charter
Rosalind Boxall
Mrs. Duffy
A woman sits at the beach and thinks over the past year of her life. The camera revolves around the woman ever closer as she remembers until we learn the truth of the events of her life.
Neiva is a dedicated manicurist, loved by her friends, adored by her daughter and granddaughter, and oppressed by Fábio, her boyfriend. Desire and obsession surround her daily life. Like many women in Brazil, she works, has fun, and cares for her family, but she also faces challenges in an abusive and troubled relationship. A prisoner of her own feelings, she is a woman who suffers in silence and whose destiny can be revealed for liberation or absolute catastrophe.
In 1997 New York, amidst a 30-year tattoo ban, Bonnie, an underground tattoo artist, offers to help a woman wishing to cover a scar from her abusive partner. Through this act of healing, Bonnie confronts and begins to mend from her own scarred past.
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.
In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
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 hidden details?
A haunting drama that peels back the silence surrounding domestic violence. Through the intimate story of a couple trapped in a cycle of pain, the film explores the emotional complexity and nuances of domestic partner abuse. A silent cat watches from the sidelines—an unsettling metaphor for our collective inaction. Inspired by real survivor testimonies, Domestic Animals is a bold, unflinching call to awareness and empathy.
A woman must confront the darkness in her own home in this short horror film.
Natalie navigates an abusive relationship while trying her best to convince her concerned friend that she is fine.
Veronica, a woman fed up with the routine of her life, runs away from the van in which she is traveling with her husband. Marcela, a taxi driver, will help her escape from it. Together, they will travel through Mexico City, sing at the top of their lungs, cry, count planes in the sky and become friends for an afternoon.
Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life, and religion in her pursuit for happiness.
The things love drives you to do. This is a microshort that was made in a few hours as a challenge to make a short film in one night.
Mauve is the color palette Monet used to represent his wife Camille Doncieux on her deathbed. It's also the color palette of suffering and complex trauma; of visible and invisible bruises, from the female gaze. MAUVE, “La piel malva” in its spanish title, is an audiovisual diptych about the depth of the emotional wounds of domestic violence; the same one that the surrealist Dora Maar lived with the minotaur Picasso. "Mauve" was a finalist in the Filminuto category of the Mobile Film Latam of the Conservatorio Audiovisual de Colombia in 2022.
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 objects will reflect on the absurd arguments that support domestic violence.
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
A cynical NYPD domestic violence officer ends up falling in love with a woman running away from her obsessive and abusive husband.
A courtroom sketch artist grapples with the remnants of a past lover and muse, as she attempts to live a new life of independence. Using art to escape his haunting memory, the manipulative connection seems almost too hard to shake.
A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately inspires them to break free.
Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.
Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child.
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
