My list of movies that depict child abuse
In no particular order:
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
aka
An American Crime
The Basketball Diaries
Bastard Out of Carolina
Beautiful Thing
Boot Camp
Boy's Don't Cry
The Breakfast Club
Brothers of the Head
The Butterfly Effect
The Cell
Dear Frankie
El Bola/Pellet
Evelyn
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Frailty
Gracie's Choice
The Hamiltons
Hannibal Rising
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Joe the King
Jumper
Ken Park
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
L.I.E.
Leon
Life as a House
Lightning Bug
Magnolia
Matilda
Mirage (macedonian)
Mysterious Skin
Mystic River
Personal Velocity
The Quiet
Running Scared
Salo
Sleepers
Sleepwalking
Song for a Raggy Boy
Tom Brown's School Days
Turn the River
Undertow
White Oleander
Savage Messiah
Freeway
cider house rules
enough
Friday night lights
Pan's Labyrinth
To Kill a Mockingbird
A history of violence
The Good Son
Lonely Hearts
Seabiscuit
Walk The line
Jane Eyre
James and the Giant Peach