Childhood Trauma Movies

Unhappy with his unstimulating home life, 9-year-old Daniel yearns to be abducted by aliens. He sneaks out of his house to relive the kind of adventur...

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far a...

Harley, a twenty-year-old college student, visits her doctor to share how she's been feeling off lately. A recent culmination of events has caused her...

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 th...

The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killin...

Amelia falls in love with Dan, but she is fighting to escape a past that threatens to repeat itself. Can Amelia’s new relationship survive the hidden...

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari contemp...

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

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken car...

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 i...

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

A troubled young adult seduces and blackmails unsuspecting strangers on a dating site.

Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, Jacqueline von Kaenel begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and discover...

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him b...

Becky looks up from her phone and her world changes forever.