Movies and TvShows featuring "battered-child" theme.
ERASED is a TV show about a schoolteacher named Satoru who possesses the power to go back in time and prevent tragedies from happening. When his mother is murdered and he is framed for the crime, Satoru travels back 18 years to his childhood to try to prevent a series of child murders from happening, including the abduction and murder of one of his classmates. As he tries to change the past and find the true killer, he uncovers dark secrets and must confront his own traumatic childhood.
Hope (2013) is a powerful drama based on a true story. It follows the harrowing journey of a young girl who becomes a victim of sexual assault, leading to physical trauma and life-threatening injuries. Left for dead on a construction site, she miraculously survives and undergoes a series of surgeries to recover. The film explores the challenges she faces in the courtroom during the criminal trial of her assailant, while highlighting the importance of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit.
In the 19th century, Jane Eyre, an orphan, takes on the role of a governess and falls for her employer, Mr. Rochester. As their love blossoms, Jane uncovers dark secrets and deception in the gothic mansion. She must navigate the challenges of love, societal expectations, and her own independence.
In the midst of the Second Anglo-Boer War, a little girl named Sara Crewe is sent to a strict boarding school after her father, a soldier, is presumed dead. Despite her harsh circumstances, Sara’s vivid imagination and kind heart help her make friends and find hope in the midst of adversity.
Men of Boys Town is a heartwarming drama set in a Catholic orphanage. The film follows the struggles and triumphs of the boys who live in the orphanage, as they navigate challenges such as financial crises, juvenile delinquency, and the need for social reform. Throughout the film, themes of self-sacrifice, determination, and the power of community are explored.
The series recounts five difficult years in the life of young Sophie who goes on the conquer the world, endowed with exceptional character and vivacity. By overcoming numerous trials and tribulations, she will reveal her best qualities.
Set in 1962, a Marine fighter pilot, known as The Great Santini, clashes with his hot-tempered son, who just wants to fit in, in a small town in South Carolina. The father's tough-love approach and high expectations strain their relationship, while the son struggles to find his own identity and deal with the pressures of high school, basketball, and military life.
Bastard Out of Carolina is a powerful movie that tells the story of a young girl named Bone who endures physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. Set in South Carolina in the 1950s, the film explores themes of poverty, domestic violence, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Dominick works as a garbageman while his brother Eugene is a medical student. Dominick, who is protective of his brother, struggles with self-sufficiency and suppressed memories of their abusive father. The brothers' bond is tested when they confront their past and face a tragic event.
The Italian follows the journey of a young boy who escapes from an orphanage and embarks on a search for his mother. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and forms unexpected connections, ultimately learning the true meaning of family.
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.
Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons so she runs away and gets a job at a theater playing...a fairy.
Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, without knowing her past. Richards, an abortionist, resumes his affair with the woman and runs off with her. But before he leaves, he frames Wayne for one of the illegal operations he has done, and the innocent man is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out, Wayne has become angry and cynical.
Iraq in Fragments is a documentary film exploring the shattered reality of Iraq through three different narratives - the daily struggles of Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds as they navigate the chaos and violence in war-torn Iraq. Through personal stories, the film provides an intimate look into the lives of ordinary Iraqis and the impact of the ongoing war on their daily lives.
In Blind Alley, a psychiatrist's nightmare leads to a murder when an escaped prisoner seeks revenge on his former doctor.
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at the cheap Paris Hotel. So that Lena can leave her abusive landlady, Slaney accepts $2,500 from a stranger, who threatens to send Slaney back to prison unless he undertakes a job. Slaney is sent to the home of political boss John Biggs with a sealed envelope which he is to open after entering.
A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of Governor Floyd Vandecarm whose twin children, Floyd Jr. and Fledra, were kidnapped in early infancy. Their abductor was Lon Cronk, a man sent to prison by Vandecar when the latter was a district attorney of the county. The twins grow up in Cronk's shack as "Flea" and "Flukey." Despite her rough surroundings Fledra/Flea grows into lovely young womanhood and she and her brother run away from Cronk's cruelty. They reach Tarrytown and peer into the lighted windows of the home of siblings Horace and Anne Shellington. Anne brings the two young vagrants into the house and ultimately adopts them. But Cronk, aided by Everett, wages a long, evil campaign to regain possession of the children.
After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.