Childhood Trauma Movies

A fearless outlaw offers to safeguard the daughter of his accomplice in return for a map to a secret diamond mine. However, his quest is compromised...

Monique is a 35 year old French woman, living in New York. The daughter of a French diplomat who has remarried, Monique has no financial worries, and...

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

Having suffered sexual abuse as a child, Veera grows into a psycho obsessed with sex and kills for pleasure.

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother,...

When an eccentric stranger promises to cure his claustrophobia, a sceptical man agrees to her treatment, only to discover that escaping his fear may...

Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and...

A young man's rapid descent into madness fueled by memories of a distant past of painful family experiences. Main character Michael Rose believes a...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

When Connor is unexpectedly told he needs to find another place to stay, he's thrust into the streets of Darwin with no safety net. A chance...

On his 21st birthday, Peter receives an unpleasant surprise and is forced to come face-to-face with his abusive past.

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire...

This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven...

Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter...

A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.

There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue...

When Eli enters her grandmother’s house with her mother Renate for the first time, it quickly becomes clear why she has never met her...

Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to...

After the major flood recedes, a family separated during the evacuation reunites for the first time. However, the cheerful middle child has become...