Childhood Trauma Movies

Tom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his...

Filmmaker Juliet Belisario revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering truths she...

Battling against the legacy of childhood trauma, internalised misogyny, and the image-obsessed fat shaming of the LA music business, aspiring...

While cleaning out her recently deceased grandfather's house, a traumatized young woman must confront her narcissistic brother's behavior and the...

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After...

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

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How...

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...

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...

Meet the real Paris Hilton for the very first time as she embarks on a journey of healing and reflection, reclaiming her true identity along the way.

A look at Genghis Khan's life, from his birth to conquests in Asia.

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of...

After a relapse, 39-year-old Amaro returns to his mother’s home, where their opposing relationships with food expose a cycle of love, control,...

A horribly burned man escapes from a mental institution and terrorizes teenagers at a party.

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

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

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...

On a summer morning, Chichou, a six-year-old girl, invite us to discover what her daily life is made of. Perhaps at the cost of what childhood should...

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

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