Childhood Trauma Movies

Past/present story of a young man who lives in a fantasy world of aeronautics to escape a more challenging reality.

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

Sakiran (11), left behind by his parents, slips out of the house and meets a friend who takes him to a PS2 rental. Yet the joy of playing can’t...

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and...

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her...

Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver...

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

When his father refuses to stop reaching out, a young man groomed online at twelve must decide whether to finally let someone see what was left...

When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a...

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...

A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let...

Spending every evening in a new and mysterious stranger’s bed, capricious transient Nore agrees to move into a spare room eagerly offered to...

Khris, a shy lesbian haunted by a Greek chorus of judgmental church ladies in her head, must silence her internalized shame and confront romantic...

A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

When Marcus was a child his mother was murdered. His father blamed the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the...

Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote...