Kun 14-vuotias Susie Salmon murhataan, hän jätti taakseen keskeneräisen elämän. Mutta nyt, oudosta mutta kauniista elämästään ja kuoleman välisestä olinpaikastaan käsin hänen täytyy ennen matkansa jatkamista auttaa isäänsä löytämään murhaaja ja suojelemaan perhettään.
Jimmy. Dave. Sean. He ovat ystävyksiä, jotka varttuivat Bostonin työläisperheissä, mutta jotka ajautuvat erilleen karmean tragedian jälkeen. Vuosia myöhemmin raa'at tapahtumat yhdistävät heidät jälleen. Jimmyn 19-vuotias tytär murhataan kylmäverisesti. Davea epäillään teosta. Ja Sean, josta on tullut poliisi, kamppailee selvittääkseen rikoksen ennen kuin äkkipikainen Jimmy ottaa lain omiin käsiinsä.
Connected through a dark past incident, a teenage gay hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths again years later.
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?
Älykkään 14-vuotiaan Haleyn ei pitäisi chattailla 32-vuotiaan valokuvaajan Jeffin kanssa netissä ja luvata tapaavansa miehen. Äkkiä hän onkin Jeffin kotona sekoittamassa drinkkejä ja riisumassa vaatteitaan valokuvausta varten.
Elokuvassa tutustutaan koomikkona ja yhteiskuntakriitikkona tunnetun Barry Crimminsin värikkääseen uraan sekä miehen kipeään menneisyyteen.
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works for the same magazine, chooses not to warn her and even sides with the editor-in-chief. In just one moment, Sara is turned off by her work, her love relationship, and even about life.At this low point in her life, Sara exiles herself to Chiang Mai, Thailand. One evening, while at a bar, Sara meets child prostitute Dok-My. During her time getting to know Dok-My and through the process of rescuing her, Sara becomes haunted by the memories of her own past…
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
Celesta and Karen Davis grew up in a loving family. They shared many wonderful childhood moments and, at the time, thought it all was normal. But when Karen and Celesta were molested in 1978, little was being done about sexual abuse. Their parents' lack of action was neither questioned nor challenged, including years of continued social contact with the perpetrator, his wife and their two young children. Twenty-five years later, feeling unresolved, they begin their quest to find the man who took advantage of their innocence and to ask him something that has haunted them for almost their entire life: "Why?"
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
Veronica Ricci is bombarded by strange feelings and fleeting involuntary memories about her childhood after giving birth to her first child. She seeks help from her estranged sister and soon realizes that these memories connect to childhood abuse that the sister underwent. Based on a true story.
Lara is a 14-year-old girl who has been sexually abused since her childhood. Tormented by this nightmare that has plagued her for years, the girl decides to break the silence.
A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward.
