The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home. The 9-year-old seems to escape from her harsh reality by spending her days in the woods of a nearby scrapyard with her friend, Pete. There, the pair have built a new home for themselves. One night, after witnessing the horrifying abuse of her mother, Ellie decides to come back home and confront her stepfather.
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Laura Ullman, a single mother, kills her abusive ex-boyfriend and turns the gun on her son when he t...
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization,...
A courtroom sketch artist grapples with the remnants of a past lover and muse, as she attempts to li...
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many...
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...
A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to ope...
Amelia falls in love with Dan, but she is fighting to escape a past that threatens to repeat itself....
Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her...
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...
Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've fi...
Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children...
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mans...
Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man...
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship tro...
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facin...
Three objects are used in a manner in which they weren't supposed to be. Something unprecedented hap...
Drama telling the true story of what happens to a teenage girl when she falls in love with the wrong...
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and cor...