Childhood Trauma Movies

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...

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's...

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

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming...

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing...

A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet,...

Three teenage brothers are terrorized by a trio of escaped mental patients disguised as clowns.

While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a...

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

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

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

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

In this raw true story of faith and redemption, college student, Riley, runs from her painful past of abuse and religious hypocrisy. However, God has...

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

Based on the classic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Hyde" tells the story of successful defense attorney Edward Hyde, who has the perfect family...