List of films featuring domestic violence

This is a list of feature-length films that have instances of domestic violence.

List of films

Film Year Ref.
3BHK2025[1]
Amityville II: The Possession1982[2]
Anatomy of a Fall 2023
Anatomy of a Murder1959[3]
The Banshees of Inisherin2022[4]: 273–4 
Boyhood2014[5]
Break Up1998[6]
The Burning Bed1984[7]
The Color Purple1985[8]
Counterparts2007[9]
Dangerous Intentions1995[10]
Domestic Violence2001[7]
The Edge of Heaven2007[11]
eMANcipation2011[12][13]
Enough2002[14]
The Family That Preys2008[15]
Forrest Gump1994[16][17]: 97–8 
The Godfather1972
The Godfather Part II1974
Goodfellas 1990
Herself2020
I, Tonya2017[18]
In the Bedroom2001
It2017
Jolene2008
Linoleum2022
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night1977[19]
Monster's Ball2001
Not Without My Daughter1990[20]
The Official Story1985
Once Were Warriors1994[7]
The Purple Rose of Cairo1985[21]
Raging Bull1980[3]
Revolutionary Road2008
Sleeping with the Enemy1991[7]
The Shining1980
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith2005[22][23]
The Stepfather1987[24]
Take My Eyes2003[25]
Tenet2020
Untold: Deal with the Devil2021[26]
Vacationland2006[27]
What's Love Got to Do with It1993[7]
When No One Would Listen1992[7]
While She Was Out2008

References

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  2. ↑ Shepard, Richard F. (September 24, 1982). "Film, 'Amitville II: The Possession'". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Themes » Domestic Abuse". AllMovie. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Keohane, Kieran; Kuhling, Carmen; O'Brien, John (2023). "What the Banshees of Inisherin is about". Irish Journal of Sociology. 31 (2): 271–278. doi:10.1177/07916035231170359.
  5. ↑ Dargis, Manohla (July 10, 2014). "From Baby Fat to Stubble: Growing Up in Real Time". The New York Times. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ Rabin, Nathan (April 19, 2002). "Break Up". The A.V. Club. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moody, Stu (March 15, 2015). "6 Domestic Violence Movies That Are Hard To Watch". Screen Junkies. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ Mathews, Jack (January 31, 1986). "3 'Color Purple' Actresses Talk About Its Impact". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2026. That's what we should be talking about," Winfrey says. "If this film is going to raise some issues, I'm tired of hearing about what it's doing to the black men. Let's talk about the issues of wife abuse, violence against women, sexual abuse of children in the home.
  9. ↑ Knauth, Katrin (2007). "Szenen einer Ehe" [Scenes from a Marriage]. Kino Zeit.de (in German). Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2026.
  10. ↑ McCarthy, John P. (January 2, 1995). "Cbs Tuesday Movie Dangerous Intentions". Variety. Retrieved July 1, 2026.
  11. ↑ Ebert, Roger (June 13, 2008). "The Edge of Heaven". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved July 28, 2026.
  12. ↑ Lassen, Amos (May 1, 2015). ""EMANCIPATION" ("eMANNzipation"): Love and Resilience". Reviews by Amos Lassen. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016.
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  14. ↑ Lopez, Jennifer (May 22, 2002). "Jennifer Lopez on New Movie 'Enough'". ABC News (Interview). Interviewed by Diane Sawyer.
  15. ↑ Hudson, Jenise (2012). "The Backhand of Backlash: Troubling the Gender Politics of Domestic Violence Scenes in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys". In Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; Randell, Karen (eds.). Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 169–180. ISBN 978-0-230-34154-8.
  16. ↑ Ware, J. Gabriel (July 16, 2022). "Why Robin Wright Doesn't See Forrest Gump's Jenny As A Tragic Character". /Film. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
  17. ↑ Wang, Jennifer Hyland (Spring 2000). ""A Struggle of Contending Stories": Race, Gender, and Political Memory in "Forrest Gump"". Cinema Journal. 9 (3): 92–115. JSTOR 1225535.
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  19. ↑ Berg, Paul (June 25, 1985). "Violent Death of Infant Blamed on TV Movie". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
  20. ↑ Canby, Vincent (January 11, 1991). "Not Without My Daughter (1990)". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  21. ↑ Erickson, Hal (2014). "The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  22. ↑ Silvio, Carl; Vinci, Tony M. (2007). Culture, Identities, and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-7864-2910-3.
  23. ↑ Lakka, Aikaterini-Maria (2023), "Mothers, Daughters, Rebels", Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 30–39, doi:10.1002/9781119841463.ch4, ISBN 978-1-119-84146-3, retrieved August 3, 2026
  24. ↑ Muir, John Kenneth (2013). Horror Movies of the 1980s. McFarland & Company. p. 625. ISBN 9780786455010.
  25. ↑ Stanley, Maureen Tobin (2012). "Liberating Mythography: The Intertextual Discourse between Mythological Banishment and Domestic Violence as Exile in Take My Eyes (Te doy mis ojos)". In Zinn, Gesa; Stanley, Maureen Tobin (eds.). Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 99–118. ISBN 978-0-230-33999-6.
  26. ↑ Reid, Craig D. (December 2021). "The Legend of Christy Martin and a Deal with the Devil". Black Belt. Vol. 60, no. 1. pp. 30–32. Gale A688815196.
  27. ↑ Land, Joshua (July 25, 2006). "Vacationland". The Village Voice. Retrieved August 1, 2026.
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