Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "abusive-childhood"

1. Supernatural (2005–2020)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins

Votes: 483,087

2. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,257,151 | Gross: $46.84M

3. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen

Votes: 192,132

4. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

R | 97 min | Action, Horror

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Kelly Rowland, Monica Keena

Votes: 127,265 | Gross: $82.62M

5. Splice (2009)

R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon

Votes: 101,761 | Gross: $17.00M

6. I Am Sam (2001)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama

An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest

Votes: 155,302 | Gross: $40.31M

7. Mouse (2021)

80 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Jung Ba-Reum is a rookie police officer. He is an honest person and tries to attain justice. After Ba-Reum faces a psychopath murderer, who places the entire nation in fear, his life is totally changed.

Stars: Lee Seung-gi, Lee Hee-joon, Park Ju-hyun, Kyung Soo-jin

Votes: 10,632

8. Halloween (2007)

R | 109 min | Horror

After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif

Votes: 130,583 | Gross: $58.27M

9. Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell

Votes: 170,034 | Gross: $83.30M

10. Peeping Tom (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley

Votes: 39,247 | Gross: $0.08M

11. United States of Tara (2009–2011)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family.

Stars: Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt, Keir Gilchrist

Votes: 25,173

12. Life as a House (2001)

R | 125 min | Drama

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jena Malone

Votes: 45,597 | Gross: $15.65M

13. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror

Dream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood's last surviving teenager, and of a woman whose personal connection to Krueger may mean his doom.

Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane

Votes: 50,978 | Gross: $34.87M

14. Love & Mercy (2014)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

Director: Bill Pohlad | Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 42,608 | Gross: $12.55M

15. Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)

TV-MA | 82 min | Documentary, Crime

In this documentary, the murder of Deedee Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy Rose is explored, as well as the circumstances leading up to the event.

Director: Erin Lee Carr | Stars: Jessica Thomas, Jim Arnott, David Blanchard, Dee Dee Blanchard

Votes: 11,899

16. No Child of Mine (1997 TV Movie)

82 min | Crime, Drama

A British schoolgirl struggles to come to terms with the horrific and disgusting sexual abuse inflicted upon her by the adults in her life. When she resorts to self-harm to escape her troubles, a caring teacher tries to get her some help.

Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Brooke Kinsella, Colin Salmon, Billy Geraghty, Sharon Small

Votes: 666

17. Slow Torture Puke Chamber (2010)

Unrated | 77 min | Horror

The final in the trilogy. A bulimic prostitute talks about her deranged childhood while being sexually tortured.

Director: Lucifer Valentine | Stars: Shari Caruso, Ameara Lavey, Hope Likens, Ms. Lucy

Votes: 866

18. A Place Among the Dead (2020)

76 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A Place Among The Dead is a genre-bending, elevated-horror film, which explores the repercussions of growing up under the sway of narcissism and psychological abuse.

Director: Juliet Landau | Stars: Juliet Landau, Gary Oldman, Robert Patrick, Ron Perlman

Votes: 257

19. Inheritance (III) (2017)

TV-MA | 75 min | Drama

A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.

Directors: Laura E. Davis, Jessica Kaye | Stars: Jessica Kaye, Mark Webber, Daniel Ahearn, Shamira Gill-Card

Votes: 338

20. Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

Georgia Benfield is at a difficult place in her life; her husband, Pete has left her for a younger woman, her teenage son, Chris is unmanageable, and she's struggling financially when her ... See full summary »

Director: David Greene | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Bonerz, River Phoenix

Votes: 155

21. Poor Albert & Little Annie (1972)

R | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...

Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Joanne Moore Jordan, Greg Mullavey

Votes: 458

22. Bolla (2021)

165 min | Drama

A gripping story of forbidden love between a married family man, Albanian Arsim, and Serb Milos in the wartime conditions of Kosovo in the late 1990s

Director: Milja Sarkola | Stars: Jessica Grabowsky, Mikko Kauppila, Jouko Klemettilä, Anssi Niemi

23. Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (2019 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962. Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death.

Director: Simon George | Stars: Nigel Collins, Helen-Jean Long, Jerry Izenberg, Mike Tyson

Votes: 427

24. Begging for Love (1998)

135 min | Drama

A woman with an abusive childhood travels back to taiwan from japan with her daughter in order to find her father's missing ashes, confronting her past along the way, discovering many secrets that were hidden from her throughout her life.

Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mieko Harada, Maho Nonami, Fumiyo Kohinata, Mami Kumagai

Votes: 157

25. Victims (1982)

82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother and her brutal pimp and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child.

Director: Tony Vorno | Stars: Lois Adams, Laura Borenstein, Ron Borenstein, Don Brown

Votes: 86

26. We Gotta Get Out of Here (2019)

79 min | Documentary, Sport

We Gotta Get Out Of Here is a feature length documentary that chronicles the journeys of five youth struggling to beat the odds as they navigate their way out of the foster care system in Los Angeles, California.

Director: Jen Araki | Stars: Tyraughn Barnett, Michael Gutschmidt, Tiffani Hayes, Benson Williams

Votes: 28

27. American Bomber: The John William Hidell Story (2011)

22 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A short, documentary-style film that explores the life and death of the first American born and raised suicide bomber.

Director: Eric Trenkamp | Stars: Jerrod Bogard, Troy Bynum, Josh Dunn, Michael Freeland

28. Untitled Daniel Warn Project

Action, Adventure, Biography | Announced

When Ernest Shackleton is given the ship Endurance to reclaim the record for the furthest south expedition, his journey is cut short when his ship becomes trapped in the ice pack and begins... See full summary »

Director: Randell Seymour

29. The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode: Keys to a Killer (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

In the 1990s, Louisiana is terrorized by multiple serial killers. The small-town PD of Zachary discover the key to solving their cases when a pattern emerges with personal items missing from each local victim.

Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Tracy Warner Bryan, David McDavid, Ray Day, Susan Mustafa

Votes: 9

30. World's Most Evil Killers (2017– )
Episode: Aileen Wuornos (2020)

60 min | Documentary, Crime

A look at the life and crimes of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who murdered 7 men in Florida by shooting them at point-blank range. She was executed by lethal injection in 2002.

Stars: Aileen Wuornos, Geoffrey Wansell, Elizabeth Yardley, Taylor David

Votes: 22

31. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Night Stalker, Part 2: I Will Be Avenged (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A tip from a teenage boy leads to the identity of the Night Stalker and twenty-four hours later a mob of angry citizens track him down and capture him.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Glynn Martin, Cliff Linedecker, Casey Jordan

Votes: 29

32. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Iceman: The Murder Business Pt. 1 (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

He was a family man, living in a New Jersey suburb with his wife and three kids. But unbeknownst to his neighbors, Richard Kuklinski held a dark secret: he was the "Iceman"--a cold-blooded ... See full summary »

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Robert J. Carroll, Patrick M. Kane, Bill Sanderson

Votes: 22

33. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Iceman: Trapping a Serial Killer Pt. 2 (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

For many years, the Iceman--Richard Kuklinski--had literally gotten away with murder, but now investigators were on to him.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Dominick Polifrone, Jay Dobyns, Bill Sanderson

Votes: 20

34. World's Most Evil Killers (2017– )
Episode: Richard Kuklinski (2023)

Documentary, Crime

For Richard Kuklinski, crime was his way of life. As a mafia hit men, his unusual methods led to a disturbing nickname: The Iceman.

Stars: Richard Kuklinski, Robert J. Carroll, Dominick Polifrone, Jennifer Sutton

35. CSI: Cyber (2015–2016)
Episode: Selfie 2.0 (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cyber team investigates the abductions of young women whose social network pages are being kept up to date. Also, Ryan helps Trish McCarthy (Rosanna Arquette) cope with the death of Trish's sister, Ryan's former psych patient.

Director: Eagle Egilsson | Stars: Patricia Arquette, James Van Der Beek, Peter MacNicol, Shad Moss

Votes: 309

36. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: David Carpenter: The Trailside Killer (2014)

45 min | Documentary, Crime

Unimposing stutterer David Joseph Carpenter brutally raped and murdered in and around the 1980 San Francisco, California, area.

Director: Matt Grosch | Stars: Christopher Slade, Stoney Brook, David Carpenter, Albert Howenstein

Votes: 16

37. Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2014– )
Episode: The Brood (2015)

11 min | Documentary

Ryan Stockstad discusses the movie The Brood (1979).

Director: Ryan Stockstad | Stars: Ryan Stockstad, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle

Votes: 10