Childhood Trauma Movies

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 psychology student who experienced night terrors as a child must face the chilling realization that her nightmares were not all in her head.

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...

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape...

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose...

A man returns to the childhood town where his brother was abducted 20 years earlier.

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

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...

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and...

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...

On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive,...

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

Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses...

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

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

With formal rigour and subtly playing with genre, body and soul, this story of knots and liberation follows Lilian, who is as inscrutable as her...

After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the...

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,...

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

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.