List of films portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
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This article presents a list of films portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors. The attraction or abuse may be to a single specific individual or to several children. The pedophilic attraction or sexual abuse may be central to the plot or incidental.
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[edit] Both children and adolescents
| Contents | Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
[edit] 0-9
- 8 mm, 1999, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, and James Gandolfini.
- The main character (private investigator Tom Welles, played by Nicolas Cage), is hired to research the authenticity of a snuff film depicting a teenage girl being raped and tortured by a masked man, as well as the girl's apparent murder.
[edit] A
- A suburban father daydreams about seducing his daughter's friend.
- Depicts several acts of rape performed by the prisoners on other prisoners.
- Depicts a young African American girl being raped by two white men, and her father (Samuel L. Jackson) is put on trial for their subsequent murder.
- A Teenage girl is raped by an older man, another man is falsely accused.
[edit] B
- A young girl from Carolina is sexually abused by her stepfather and eventually raped on screen.
- A boy discovers (over time) that his best friend is being sexually abused by her father, and eventually remembers that he was made to perform with her in videotaped child pornography.
- A promiscuous young woman (Christina Ricci) tries to change her ways, and faces the fact that she was sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend when she was a child.
[edit] C
- Chinatown, 1974, directed by Roman Polanski, written by Robert Towne
- A woman has an incestuous relationship with her father, resulting in a daughter by him.
- A girl gives birth to two children by a man she believes to be her father.
[edit] D
- Deliver Us from Evil, 2006, directed by Amy Berg
- The true story of Catholic priest Father Oliver O'Grady who abused both boys and girls.[1]
- Doubt, 2008
- A nun suspects the priest of her school is abusing a black boy.
- After Donnie burns down a local celebrity's house, a safe containing child pornography is found within the burned walls.
- Dreamchild, 1985, directed by Gavin Millar
- Developed from the television play Alice by Dennis Potter, based on the life of 'Charles Dodgson' (Lewis Carroll).[2]
[edit] E
- Eban and Charley, 2000, directed by James Bolton
- A 29-year-old man forms an intimate relationship with a 14-year-old-boy.[3]
- The Exterminator, 1980
- John Eastland as "The Exterminator" raids a child prostitution ring, killing the ringleader and a state senator from New Jersey while setting a young boy free who was bound to a bed.
[edit] F
- A young girl is raped in the woods by a man who murdered her mother and older sister.
- A fading Hollywood star looks back at the days of his teenage youth when his mother's friend raped him, eventually playing a part in her young daughter's death.
- For a Lost Soldier (Voor een verloren soldaat)
- A young boy falls in love with a Canadian soldier, and although the relationship becomes sexual, it's unclear if the soldier himself is in love with the boy.
- Gump's childhood sweetheart is abused by her father in a brief plot line, and some later suffering can be inferred from the earlier trauma.
[edit] G
- A young woman confesses to her family that her stepfather molested and raped her from age 12 to 14.
- A young girl from a ruff neighbourhood in Boston disappears, one of the police's and the movies protagonist's, Patrick Kenzie and Angelica Gennaro, suspects is a convicted pedophile.
- One of the patients is involved in a sexual relationship with her father, who lavishes her with gifts and favors. These include prematurely removing her from treatment and setting her up in her own house, where she later commits suicide after another patient confronts her about the relationship.
[edit] H
- Happiness, 1998, directed by Todd Solondz
- A respected psychiatrist and family man is a predatory abuser of his young son's friends.
- Hard Candy, 2006, directed by David Slade starring Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page
- A young woman poses as a 14-year-old to track down pedophiles who sexually solicit children in internet chat rooms.
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, 2004, directed by and starring Asia Argento.
- The young protagonist is raped by one of his mother's boyfriends.
- A girl is raped by a mutant in her family's trailer.
[edit] I
- A chilling ghost story about two orphaned children whose nanny confronts her tormented past.
[edit] J
- Jet Boy
- Jaago
- A 10 year old schoolgirl (Hansika Motwani) was raped by three men in a train.
[edit] K
- As a child, the character O-Ren Ishii kills her parents' murderer by exploiting the fact that he was a paedophile.
- The Kite Runner (2007)
- In one scene a boy is depicted being raped by another student. In a later scene, the rapist, now a 40-year-old Taliban activist, is said to have periodically taken young children from an orphanage, including a young boy who is revealed as a sort of pet slave, forced to dance for this man and presumably coerced into doing more sexual or self-degrading acts.
[edit] L
- L.I.E., 2001, directed by Michael Cuesta
- Howie, a 15-year-old boy, discovers that his best friend, a hustler named Gary, is a boy prostitute to Big John, a retired military officer. After Gary and Howie rob Big John's house, Big John proposes that Howie can pay for the stolen items by having sex with him; however, Big John apparently changes his mind and they don't have sex. Big John is killed by another teenager with whom he had had a sexual relationship.
- Lipstick, 1976 film, starring Mariel Hemingway
- After her music teacher has raped her older sister and gets subsequently acquitted in court, a young girl is hunted down and raped by the man as well.
- One of the main plot lines of this film concerns the release of prison of a pedophile and the effects of this event in his community.
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, 1976, directed by Nicolas Gessner
- Rynn is a 13-year-old, whose neighbor Frank, a pedophile, tries constantly to seduce her.
- Lolita, 1962, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring James Mason and its 1997 remake, directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Jeremy Irons[2]
- Life As A House An Older Woman begins an affair (Mary Steenburgen) with her younger daughter's friend. Also, a teenage boy, (Hayden Christensen) prostitutes himself to older men for marijuana.
- The Last House on the Left Two girls are held captive by a gang, who proceed to rape and kill them.
- Let the Right One In (2008) It is inferred in the movie that the forever frozen at 12 year old vampire Eli is engaged in a physical relationship with Hakan, her caretaker. She is however much chronologically older than him, bringing up another moral ambiguity in her relationship with 12 year old boy Oskar.
[edit] M
- La Mala Educación, released in English as Bad Education, 2004, a Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- Two boys fall in love and are also abused by a priest at their school.
(In Engish "Young Aphrodites"). A Greek film (1963) directed by Nikos Koundouros. It is set in ancient Greece, about 200 B.C. The movie focuses on a wandering band of shepherds. They arrive in a small village where there are no men because they are away fishing. Two romances develop including pre-teens/early teens, with sexually explicit scenes presented in an elegant way. Two of the shepherds (a man and boy) fall in love with a man and a girl from the village. Many of the actors were actually sheepherders. The film is based on the fable of Daphnis and Chloe. The film won the Silver Bear for Best Director of the Berlin International Film Festival, and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize. There is an English narative.
- Mysterious Skin 2004 directed by Gregg Araki, from the novel of the same name by Scott Heim
- Two adolescents molested as young boys have very different memories of their experiences.
- One of the film's central characters, Dave Boyle, was kidnapped, locked in a cellar and sexually abused for several days by two men.
[edit] N
- A married art teacher has an affair with one of her 15-year-old students.
[edit] O
- Oude Tongen, (Old Tongues), 1994 in film, directed by Gerardjan Rijnders[4]
- Oldboy, directed by Park Chan-Wook
[edit] P
- The 13 year old protagonist, Aviva has intercourse with an adult truck driver.
- Depicts a Vietnamese girl being raped by American soldiers during the Vietnam war.
- Pretty Baby, 1978 directed by Louis Malle and starring Brooke Shields[2]
- Violet, a 12-year-old girl, is arranged to have her virginity sold before prostitution is made illegal.
- Priest, 1994 British film, the protagonist becomes aware that a young member of his parish is being sexually abused by her father.
- Provoked, directed by Jag Mundhra and starring Aishwarya Rai
- The film is based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia who killed her abusive husband.
[edit] Q
- A 17-year-old girl has an incestuous relationship with her father. Although never clarified, the abuse seemed to start from a young age, but they did not start having actual sex until she reached puberty.
[edit] R
- The Reader, 2008
- A woman has a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.
- Running Scared, 2006, directed by Wayne Kramer[5]
- A teenage boy named Burroughs befriends Neil Bookman, a grown adult male and the two begin a sexual love affair.
[edit] S
- Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (2008 Italy) film directed by Federico Moccia.
- A 17-year-old girl falls in love with a 37-year-old man. He gives up his family to marry the girl.
- Sin City, (2005) based on the graphic novel
- Among the many separate stories, one features a the scion of a powerful political family who is also a child molester and serial killer of young girls. Eight years after he is denied 11-year-old Nancy Callahan, he decides to track her down to finish the job.
- Sleepers, 1996 film directed by Barry Levinson, based on the book Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra[2]
- Soft Like Me (1996, by Jeffrey Erbach)
- A short movie depicting boys enslaved by men on a farm.
- Story of a young girl sexually abused by her father.
- Hollywood drama of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. She discovers in therapy that her illness is the result of having been sexually abused by her mother.
- It is implied that a young girl has incestuous relations with her father.
[edit] T
- Tom and Savanna Wingo are raped as children by escaped convicts.
- In the German adaptation from 2007 17-year-old Jim Hawkins is seduced by an adult female prostitute.
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Twist of Faith, 2004, directed by Kirby Dick
- Tony Comes survives sexual abuse by a Catholic priest.
- Two Women, 1960, directed by Vittorio De Sica
- An Italian adolescent girl and her mother are raped by Moroccan Goumier soldiers during the Marocchinate war rapes in World War II.
[edit] U
[edit] V
- V For Vendetta, interestingly enough, no child pornography is shown in the movie as opposed to the graphic novel, but a Catholic priest shows the intent to have sex with an underage girl before he is murdered by V.
- A Very Short Life, released in Hong Kong, 2009, tells the story of a young girl who was sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend. During her interrogation, the mother is physically forced to a watch videotape of them having sex. Child pornography is depicted in the film, but shown off-screen.
- La virgen de los sicarios, released in English as Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000, directed by Barbet Schroeder[6][citation needed]
- An old writer has a sexual relationship with a young hitman in Medellín.
- Voor een verloren soldaat, 1992, released in the USA as For a Lost Soldier from the novel by Dutch author Rudi van Dantzig
- A Canadian soldier in Europe during World War II has a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy.
[edit] W
- A woman named Michelle is a crack addict who was sexually abused and raped as a child by her mother's boyfriend Reggie.
- The Woodsman, a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell
- The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a pedophile who must adjust to life after prison.
[edit] Z
[edit] Criminal investigations and true stories
- The Boys of St. Vincent, 1992, directed by John N. Smith[2] and its sequel
- The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later, 1993, directed by John N. Smith
- The two films chronicle abuse by priests at an orphanage in Canada and are based on true events. See Congregation of Christian Brothers
- Capturing the Friedmans, 2003 documentary directed by Andrew Jarecki
- The controversy surrounding the conviction of a father and son for the abuse of children who came into their home for computer classes.
- Deliver Us from Evil, 2006, directed by Amy Berg
- The true story of Catholic priest Father Oliver O'Grady, who abused both boys and girls.
- Do You Know the Muffin Man?, 1989, directed by Gilbert Cates
- The story of John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who preyed on young boys.
- I Know My First Name Is Steven, also released as The Missing Years, 1989, directed by Larry Elikann
- The true story of Steven Stayner, who was abducted by Kenneth Parnell at age 7 and sexually abused for seven years before being reunited with his family.
- Indictment: The McMartin Trial, 1995, directed by Mick Jackson
- Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story, 1999, directed by Stephen Tolkin
- Ellie Nesler shoots her son Willy's alleged molester during his trial.[2]
- Just Ask My Children, 2001, directed by Arvin Brown
- The story of wrongfully accused parents from the Kern County child abuse cases.
- Just, Melvin: Just Evil, 2000, documentary directed by James Ronald Whitney
- A grandfather sexually molests a number of family members.
- M, a German 1931 classic by Fritz Lang
- About the hunt for a child molester and serial killer, played by Peter Lorre. The character is allegedly based on Peter Kürten. American remake in 1951.
- Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills, 1994, directed by Larry Elikann and Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders 1994, directed by Paul Schneider
- The story of the Menendez brothers who murdered their parents then claimed they had been abused as children.
- Our Fathers, 2005, directed by Dan Curtis from the book by David France
- Boys have been abused by John Geoghan and other priests. See Roman Catholic sex abuse cases
- Pure Fiction, 1998, directed by Marian Handwerker
- About a child sex abuse ring in Belgium.
- Sex Crimes and the Vatican (2006)
- A documentary filmed for the BBC Panorama documentary series which detailed how the Vatican has used something called "Crimen sollicitationis" or secret documentation to silence allegations of sexual abuse by priests and how it was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI. [7]
- Stevie, 2002, directed by Steve James
- A documentary about Stevie Fielding, an abused boy who became an abuser himself.
- Unspeakable Acts, 1990, directed by Linda Otto and featuring Joseph Mazzello, based on the novel Unspeakable Acts by Jan Hollingsworth
- Sexual abuse at a Dade County daycare center; based on a true story.[2]
[edit] See also
- List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
- List of songs portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
- List of works for the theatre portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
[edit] Further reading
- Coming of Age: Movie and Video Guide by Don Lort. Companion Press, 1997. ISBN 1889138029
- The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995 by John Holmstrom. Michael Russell Publishing, 1996. ISBN 0859551784
- Children in the Movies, by Neil Sinyard: a study of how childhood has been portrayed in films. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. ISBN 031207574X
[edit] References
- ^ Griffin, Drew. "Priest makes 'most honest confession' of his life". CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/27/griffin.priestabuse/. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Erotic innocence by James R. Kincaid, Duke University Press 1998
- ^ Filmmaker James Bolton's Eban and Charley, J.T. Leroy
- ^ British Medical Journal, Views and reviews Just another nightmare? T Sheldon, April 9, 1994
- ^ FileThirteen.com Review of Running Scared (2006)
- ^ Bright Lights Film Journal Boys on the Side A Survey of Adult/Youth Relationships in Movies and TV, Gary Morris
- ^ BBC, Panoroma Sex crimes and the Vatican

