Childhood Trauma Movies

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

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,...

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

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...

Danny is a troubled teen with a difficult home life. His parents' marriage has disintegrated, and his father's already found someone else he'd like...

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.

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

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Spending every evening in a new and mysterious stranger’s bed, capricious transient Nore agrees to move into a spare room eagerly offered to...

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...

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

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

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