Abusive Mother Movies

A young boy takes a stand when his mother's grief threatens to destroy both of their lives.

For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother...

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life...

Ruby Franke's rise as a "momfluencer" with millions of followers hid a nightmare; when her son fled and alerted a neighbor about the abuse, police...

As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them...

When Maria witnesses an accidental family tragedy, she's told it never happened and must decide what to do with the truth.

Lina, a tormented teenager, is haunted by her abusive envious mother, affecting her mental and emotional sanity until she is pushed over the edge.

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

On a hot summer‘s day, lonely Franklin is invited to play with other kids for the first time since moving to a new village. But when the...

Despite the undeniable complicity that unites them, Manue, 11, suffers from the uncontrolled anger of her mother Isabelle. How far will this violence...

Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead...

Paulo, a young gay boy with an abusive mother, meets Tom, a young gay man who makes his money bedding women.

A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet...

Artistic lovers, Viv and Jay, have become trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. But when Viv’s wealthy parents hire an...

During her final week of high school, a queer teenager navigates escalating tension at home and the fallout from past trauma. Encounters with friends...

Nola is badly screwed when a video is distributed at school showing her being dumped by her boyfriend Jesse. Her grief and jealousy get her into even...

A man kidnaps his little girl to protect her from an abusive mother, then becomes the first man to enter a woman's underground movement.

Lily has saved up a large sum of money to fulfill her dream of studying acting at an American university. On the day she receives confirmation that...

The film follows Michael Moskowitz’s work with a New York-based therapist named Kirkland Vaughns, one of the few African-American Freudian...