Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in films

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This article is about pedophilia/paedophilia in movies/films. For pedophilia in other media, see Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in fiction, Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in the theatre, and Pedophilia and child sexual abuse in songs.

Pedophilia and child sexual abuse have been an important theme in many films. Although abuse is an overriding theme for many of these films, like I Know My First Name Is Steven or M, some are ambivalent about the idea of adult/child sexual relations, like Voor een verloren soldaat or L.I.E., and a few are positive, for example Le Souffle au coeur or Du er ikke alene. Some films, like Hearts in Atlantis or The Man Without a Face, do not deal so much with sexual abuse per se, but the underlying concept of the "bad man" accused as a pedophile. The novel Lolita and its two film adaptations are perhaps the most well known examples of pedophilia in popular culture.

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[edit] Adult/boy

Special Friendships
Special Friendships
Bad Education
Bad Education
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face
Running Scared
Running Scared
Death in Venice
Death in Venice
Song for a Raggy Boy
Song for a Raggy Boy
The Woodsman
The Woodsman

Movies with child sexual abuse or pedophile theme or content involving boys include:

A boy is raped and killed by a fascist.

[edit] A - M

  • Abuse, 1983, directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
Thomas, an effeminate 14-year-old who is physically abused by his parents, has a relationship with a 30-year-old gay man
A boy falls in love with a much younger schoolboy who is also loved by a priest
  • Amor Estranho Amor, released in English as Love Strange Love, 1982 Brazilian film directed by Walter Hugo Khouri and starring Xuxa
A prostitute seduces a 12-year-old boy
12-year-old Danny is molested by a Vietnam Vet
features an episode where an immoral priest solicits a street urchin.
The true story of Catholic priest Father Oliver O'Grady who abused both boys and girls
  • La discesa di Aclà a Floristella, released in English as Acla's Descent into Floristella, 1992, Italian film directed by Aurelio Grimaldi
11-year-old Aclà is sold into slavery and has to work in a sulpher mine with other young boys who are regularly sexually abused by the miners
  • Duvar, released in English as Güney's The Wall or The Wall, 1983 Turkish film directed by Yilmaz Güney
  • Eban and Charley, 2000, directed by James Bolton
A 29-year-old forms an intimate relationship with a 14-year-old boy
  • Un enfant dans la foule, A Child in the Crowd, 1976, directed by Gérard Blain
13-year-old Paul discovers that he is attractive to certain soldiers in 1944
A respected psychiatrist and family man is a predatory abuser of his young son's friends
The child sex trade in London
Two boys fall in love and are also abused by a priest at their school
A disfigured teacher with a mysterious past forms a friendship with a troubled 12-year-old boy.
A composer becomes obsessed with a beautiful teenage boy he meets in Venice.
Two adolescents molested as young boys have very different memories of their experiences.
The lives of four men who were childhood friends come together again. One boy had been abducted by pedophiles when playing in the street with the others.

[edit] N - Z

  • The Near Room 1995, directed by David Hayman
Charlie Colquhoun (Adrian Dunbar) learns that his old schoolmate Harris Hill was raped by his father and is now involved in a child pornography ring.
A female teacher falls for a 15-year-old student and has sex with him.
Lorenzo, a professor, falls under the spell of Duilio, a 12-year-old pupil.
  • Say Uncle, 2005, directed by and starring Peter Paige
  • Seduction in a Small Town, also known as Harvest of Lies, 1997, directed by Charles Wilkinson
A mother is falsely accused of abusing her children
The true story of one teacher's fight to stop sexual abuse in an Irish Reformatory School
Incest between a boy and his mother.
  • Tras el crystal, also released as In a Glass Cage, 1987, a Spanish film directed by Agustí Villaronga [[1]]
Angelo, sexually abused as a 10-year-old boy, returns to haunt Klaus, the now-paralised abuser and a Nazi child killer. In a cycle of abuse, Angelo reenacts scenes of child torture and murder from Klaus' scrapbook.
  • Torzók, released in English as Abandoned, 2001, Hungarian film directed by Árpád Sopsits
  • Twist of Faith, 2004, directed by Kirby Dick
  • Der Unhold, a German film released in English as The Ogre, 1996, directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  • La Ville dont le Prince est un Enfant, released in the USA as The Fire that Burns, 1997 French film, directed by Christophe Malavoy, based on the play by Henry de Montherlant
  • La Virgen de los sicarios, released in English as Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000, directed by Barbet Schroeder
  • Vito e gli altri, Vito and the Others, 1991, Italian film directed by Antonio Capuano
  • Voor een verloren soldaat, 1992, released in the USA as For a Lost Soldier from the novel by Dutch author Rudi van Dantzig
  • Whipping Boy, 1996, directed by Di Drew from the novel Whipping Boy by Gabrielle Lord

[edit] Pedophilia as a minor theme

Pedophilia is a minor theme in some films, including:

Scenes of intimacy between two brothers - 18-year-old AIDS sufferer Léo and 12-year-old Marcel; between Marcel and his best friend Yvan, and between Marcel and Yvan's mother
The exterminator kills the leader of a child pornography ring and one of his clients
Bobby's mother wrongly suspects that Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins) has molested both her 11-year-old son (Anton Yelchin) and his friend Carol
  • Henry & Verlin, also relased in Canada as Eyes That Went Away, directed by
Henry, who is slow-witted, is wrongly suspected of molesting Verlin, his autistic 9-year-old best friend.
a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy explore their sexuality at boarding school
Michael Lamb, a Christian Brother, abducts 12-year-old Owen Kane, but does not molest him.
Sy (Robin Williams) was abused by his father as a child
Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is propositioned by a man when he runs away from home and Eugene (Kevin Spacey) attacks the man
A prisoner who escaped with Dutch tries to molest 8-year-old Phillip (T.J Lowther)
Friends and neighbours question Graham's motives when he tries to adopt 10-year-old James
  • Vers le sud, released in English as Heading South, 2005, directed by Laurent Cantet
One of the women is tempted to spend some time with a 12 year-old boy.
Mike (Nicholas Hoult), a 15-year-old boy, claims his counsellor comes on to him and the boy's father David Spritz (Nicholas Cage) beats the man up.
  • Without a Trace 1983, directed by Stanley R. Jaffe and based on Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
A gay housekeeper is suspected of molesting and kidnapping a 6-year-old boy

[edit] Pedophile overtones

Some commentators have implied that there are pedophile overtones in the following movies:

Anna (Nicole Kidman) and 10-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) share a bath [2][3]
The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn-Davies boys who inspired him to create Peter Pan, including Peter (Freddie Highmore)
  • Whole New Thing, 2005, directed by Amnon Buchbinder
A 13-year-old boy develops a crush on his teacher.

[edit] Adult/girl

Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina

Movies with child sexual abuse or pedophile theme or content involving girls include:

An affair between a 30-year-old Chinese man and a 15-year-old French girl in colonial Vietnam.
The main character, Max Cady, sexually abuses Danielle Bowden, the daughter of Sam Bowden.
Saint Phalle is sexually abused by her father
A police officer tells children about the dangers of accepting rides or presents from strangers
A man allows a 6-year-old girl to touch his genitals, although not with the intention of sexual stimulation.
Detective Hartigan (Bruce Willis) is framed for raping 11-year-old Nancy

Pedophilia is a minor theme in some films, including:

[edit] Pedophile overtones

Some commentators have implied that there are pedophile overtones in the following movie:

  • Léon, 1994, directed by Luc Besson; involving Léon (Jean Reno) and 12-year-old Mathilda. There is a cut scene only available on DVD where Mathilda asks Leon to be her first which he refuses saying she should enjoy life as little girl more before contemplating such things. (Natalie Portman)[4]

[edit] Criminal investigations based on true stories

The Boys of St. Vincent
The Boys of St. Vincent
The two films chronicle abuse by priests at an orphanage in Canada and are based on true events[[5]]
The controversy surrounding the conviction of a father and son for the abuse of children who came into their home for computer classes.
The true story of Catholic priest Father Oliver O'Grady who abused both boys and girls
Ritual satanic sexual abuse and child pornography at a day-care centre.
  • I Know My First Name Is Steven, also released as The Missing Years, 1989, directed by Larry Elikann
The true story of Steven Stayner's life after being kidnapped at the age of seven and his abuse over seven years.
The true story of the McMartin family who were wrongly accused of the molestation of preschool children.
  • Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story, 1999, directed by Stephen Tolkin
Ellie Nesler shoots he son Willy's alleged molester during his trial.
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
  • 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.
  • Pure Fiction, 1998, directed by Marian Handwerker
A child sex abuse ring in Belgium
  • Unspeakable Acts, 1990, directed by Linda Otto and featuring Joseph Mazzello, based on the novel Unspeakable Acts by Jan Hollingsworth
Sexual abuse at a day care centre; based on a true story.

The Waco siege has been the subject of a number of documentary films, including:

  • In the Line of Duty: Ambush at Waco
  • Waco: The Big Lie and Waco II: The Big Lie Continues
  • Waco: An Apparent Deviation
  • Day 51: The True Story of Waco
  • Waco: The Rules of Engagement
  • America Wake Up (Or Waco)
  • The Assault on Waco
  • Inside Waco
The justification for the assault on the Branch Davidian compound included allegations of child sexual abuse. David Koresh was also said to have taken child brides.

[edit] Media personalities

Michael Jackson was acquitted of child sexual abuse. Films that cover the story include:

  • Michael Jackson and the Boy He Paid Off, 2004, directed by Helen Littleboy
  • Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, 2004, directed by Allan Moyle
  • Behind the Scenes at the Michael Jackson Trial, 2005

The film Clownhouse was directed by Victor Salva and released in 1989. The lead role was played by 12-year-old child actor Nathan Forrest Winters. Salva was convicted in 1989 of molesting Winters and of capturing the mutual oral sex on video. Salva served fifteen months in a California state prison.[6]

The Aristocrats, 2005, directed by Paul Provenza is a documentary about the classic dirty joke. Many tellings of the joke by famous comedians feature explicit descriptions of the violent child sexual abuse of infants and children by their parents and siblings.

[edit] See also

Children in the Movies, by Neil Sinyard is a study of how childhood has been portrayed in films.

[edit] External links

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