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10 Best Movies Like Abuse

If you loved Abuse, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
As You Are

As You Are

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of di...

#2
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ....

#3
I Can Only Imagine

I Can Only Imagine

2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, Arthur. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by em...

#4
Pretty Boy

Pretty Boy

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of...

#5
Rocks

Rocks

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and...

#6
Flowers in the Attic

Flowers in the Attic

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Abuse for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother....

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