Hidden in the Spotlight

Running Away

May 2017 •English

Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.

The Boys of St. Vincent

June 1994 •English

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

Four Good Days

April 2021 •English

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

Madeline's Madeline

August 2018 •English

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

To Live

May 1994 •Chinese

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

Bloody Mama

March 1970 •English

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

Bad Indian - the Villain Origin Story

November 2023 •English

Bad Indian – The Villain Origin Story, is a coming of age comedy-drama about Abbey, a young woman from Croydon. When Abbey lies to her strict Catholic Indian Mother about her rejection from Cambridge University her only method of escapism is to have one memorable night at the infamous Tiger Croydon’s A-Level Results Party. But what happens when the truth she's been running from violently slaps her in the face.

Now, Voyager

October 1942 •English

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Beautiful Destroyer

December 2015 •English

Dedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist Jake Morrison is trained to help individuals cope with trauma. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake finds himself going down a road that he never imagined. The NYPD's newest inmate, Leigh, is a woman scarred by a devastating childhood. She witnessed her mother's brutal murder at the hands of the woman who raised her from then on. Victoria is a ruthless drug lord who forces Leigh to live a life ruled by lies, betrayal and murder. Only when Leigh meets Greg does she start to understand the true meaning of love, but it might be too late.

Daddy

October 2012 •Danish

A father comes home for Christmas in the basement where he is keeping his wife and children captive. Inspired by the Josef Fritzl case.

Sanako

September 2021 •English

After attempting to commit suicide Sanako's relationship with her mother changes. Her mother Mrs. Hamada being to blame herself. Was there more she could have done to save her daughter?

On the Doll

October 2007 •English

A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.

Leo

March 2002 •English

A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome obstacles of the past to save the little boy and ultimately himself.

Lo de aquella noche

November 2020 •Spanish

Albino

July 2016 •Japanese

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day she visits a home for a job and meets Kyu. Yashima senses Kyu's eyes watching her. They become intimate, but a dark secret is soon revealed.

Vegas

September 2009 •Norwegian

You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.

My Last Summer

March 2017 •French

During a heat wave in Montreal, Tom, 11, meets Édith, who’s the same age. He soon discovers that Édith has a terrible secret.

Mockingbird Don't Sing

May 2001 •English

The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.

Black Mama, White Mama

January 1973 •English

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.

Strait-Jacket

January 1964 •English

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.