Childhood Trauma Movies

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this...

Years after the cameras stopped rolling, a former child actor begins the difficult work of confronting what happened behind them.

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

A much abused loner achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting early morning mysterious phone calls from...

Assaf, a cynical boy frustrated by the death of his older brother Uri in Lebanon, refuses to join his family for the Memorial Day ceremony. Out of...

A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, grows up on Japan's northern coast. With nowhere to...

A virgin gets visited by the Devil.

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...

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...

While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where...

Matija, an amnesiac author writing his third book, confronts his fabricated memories and forgotten past. His journey reveals childhood trauma,...

Twenty-six years after her parents' dramatic break-up, film director Nicoline Skotte takes on the task of revisiting her childhood trauma by inviting...

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...

Sima, a talented woman who was punished by her father for drawing an erotic painting in the art class as a teenager, gives up painting forever. Now...

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

Max and Avery go on their first date after meeting on a social media app. Their evening takes a perilous turn when they end up at a local haunted...

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,...

While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.