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Audrie & Daisy

Audrie & Daisy is a sober, close-up documentary about two American teenagers assaulted at parties, and the digital pile-on that followed. It moves between the girls, their families, the boys accused, and the towns that judged them, using texts and social media posts as evidence. It's for anyone trying to understand how online shame can outlast the crime itself — hard to watch, harder to look away from.

TMDb rating7.2

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A limited series dramatizing a real case of police disbelieving a teenage rape victim, then the detectives who finally listen; it turns the same institutional failure into gripping, humane drama.

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The Hunt2012

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But Sitting with the accused as the sympathetic figure feels uncomfortable, even queasy, given who this documentary is about.

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Follows the gymnasts who exposed Larry Nassar's abuse and the institutions that looked away — the same anatomy of cover-up and courage, just inside a different closed world.

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The Tale2018

Jennifer Fox's autobiographical film reconstructs her own childhood abuse from unreliable memory, giving a survivor's inner experience a raw honesty documentary can rarely reach.

But Its subject is childhood rather than teenage assault, and the fractured structure demands patience.

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Follows Drew Dixon's decision to publicly accuse Russell Simmons, examining the particular cost Black women pay for speaking out — a dimension this documentary doesn't touch.

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13 Reasons Why2017no page yet

A fictional teen drama built around cyberbullying, suicide and assault in an American high school, dramatizing the same small-town cruelty machine from inside its victims' heads.

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The Accused1988

Same accusation that a victim's clothes, drinking or behavior invited it — this film named that argument decades before it resurfaced in a Missouri Facebook comment section.

Jodie Foster won an Oscar playing a gang-rape survivor fighting to be believed in court, made nearly thirty years before Audrie and Daisy's cases, proving how little had actually changed by the time cameras found them.

But Its courtroom-drama polish and Hollywood pacing feel a world away from the raw, unresolved footage of a real documentary.

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Rashomon1950

This documentary is built from the same competing accounts — victims, attackers, parents, town — and Rashomon is the film that taught cinema how to hold contradictory versions of an assault without picking a winner for you.

Kurosawa's classic tells one violent crime through four contradictory testimonies, inventing the structure that lets a single act splinter into as many truths as there are people describing it.

But A 70-year-old black-and-white Japanese film with a slow, theatrical rhythm — nothing like the urgency of true-crime documentary.

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