History AbusiveParents / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/GhostNote'': Jack notes that his father was apparently this when he was alive. He beat up Rick for going into his workshop, and when he found Jack in the attic, he choked him and threw him down the attic stares. [[spoiler:We later find out that since he was keeping [[BigBad Eugene Burn]] behind a brick wall in his workshop, and hid his guitar in the attic, that he may have done those because he didn't want his sons being influenced by them.]]
* ''Film/GimmeShelter2014'': Apple's mother did ''something'' that she won't talk about in the past, and tries to ''murder'' her when Apple won't leave with her.
* ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': When accused by Diana of driving her mother to suicide with abuse, her father strikes her (Diana beats him, since she's trained as a boxer at this point).

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Dr. [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Emma Russell]] is revealed to be the emotionally abusive variety. It's subtly implied in the film (and all but confirmed in a deleted scene and in the novelization) that Emma has been trying to turn Madison against her father out of spite after the latter distanced himself from them in a GriefInducedSplit. [[spoiler:However, the big hitter which makes Emma hit this trope is that she's been indoctrinating Madison into her and [[BigBadWannabe Alan Jonah]]'s EcoTerrorist plot to release the {{Kaiju}}, by showing Madison herself how benevolent some of the very gentlest Titans (namely Mothra) can be whilst limiting Madison's exposure to other, much more violent Titans and absolutely sugar-coating the sheer amount of global mass murder that Emma and Jonah's plan (which Emma has made Madison herself '''directly''' complicit in) would involve. Furthermore, Emma's [[SanitySlippage mental instability]] has caused her to fail to in any way teach her daughter how to mentally ''cope'' with the horrible things they'll be doing, nor did she in any way prepare Madison for her friends and even ''her own father'' being among their victims, which leads to Madison being increasingly traumatized as the bodies start dropping because of events that she and her mother have had a hand in. Bear in mind, Madison is '''twelve years old''']].

* One of the Joker's "[[MultipleChoicePast scar stories]]" in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has Joker claiming that he got at least one of the GlasgowGrin scars from his drunken father as a child, after said father stabbed his mother to death [[ForcedToWatch right in front of him]]. Whether or not it's true, his interaction with [[PoliticianGuestStar Senator Patrick Leahy's character]] implies he ''does'' have legitimate anger toward his father.
-->'''The Joker''': You know, you remind me of my father. [''pulls the guy by the back of his head, and puts a knife to his mouth''] I HATED MY FATHER!

* ''Film/Joker2019'': In a flashback, it is shown that Penny Fleck's boyfriend used to severely beat her son Arthur, all the while she did nothing about it. Realizing this brings Arthur further into madness and it becomes a key factor of him becoming ComicBook/TheJoker.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** William Stryker in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' lobotomized his mutant son Jason and reduced him to a wheelchair-bound source of mind control serum. He even stops referring to his son by name, calling him "Mutant 143". Xavier is horrified that William would do this to his own son, but William claims that [[IHaveNoSon his son is already dead]], just like the rest of mutantkind.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Shingen Yashida is seen slapping his daughter early on, and [[spoiler:later tries to kill her.]]

* ''Film/EasternPromises''. Semyon is physically and verbally abusive well into Kirill's adulthood. It may have gotten worse now that Kirill's a grown man, and is also, at least implicitly, because Kirill is likely gay. It comes across as worse in contrast to how Semyon treats the little girls in their family, which seems genuinely avuncular. [[spoiler:Well, maybe not all the little girls in his family -- Semyon also orders Kirill to murder one of his illegitimate children, who would be Kirill's own infant half-sister.]]

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Dr. [[Characters/MonsterVerseEmmaRussell Emma Russell]] is ultimately revealed to be the emotionally abusive variety. It's subtly implied in the film (and all but confirmed in a deleted scene and in the novelization) that Emma has been trying to turn Madison against her father out of spite after the latter distanced himself from them in a GriefInducedSplit. [[spoiler:However, the big hitter which makes Emma hit this trope is that she's been indoctrinating Madison into her and [[BigBadWannabe Alan Jonah]]'s EcoTerrorist plot to release the {{Kaiju}}, by showing Madison herself how benevolent some of the Titans such as Mothra can be, whilst limiting Madison's exposure to other, more volatile Titans and absolutely sugar-coating the sheer amount of mass murder Emma and Jonah's plan (which Emma has made Madison herself '''directly''' complicit in) would involve. Furthermore, Emma's [[SanitySlippage mental instability]] has caused her to fail to in any way ''mentally'' prepare her daughter for accepting global genocide and the murders of her friends, which leads to Madison being increasingly traumatized as the bodies start dropping because of events that she and her mother have had a hand in]].

-->'''Elvira''': No, no podés. Qué va a decir la gente, quédate y llorá un poco. Llorá nena, ¿pero no tenés vergüenza vos?, ah, che, esta me sacó el carácter de los Musicardi, viste que son duros y egoístas que se
mueren, en cambio nosotros los Romero somos tan sentimentales que es mejor ser como ellos, te digo,
eh?, porque se sufre menos. Mirá lo que es a esta nadie me la va a pisotear. Andá a mi cuarto querida...

-->'''Elvira''': No, no podés. Qué va a decir la gente, quédate y llorá un poco. Llorá nena, ¿pero no tenés
vergüenza vos?, ah, che, esta me sacó el carácter de los Musicardi, viste que son duros y egoístas que se