Childhood Trauma Movies

Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver...

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...

Filmmaker Juliet Belisario revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering truths she...

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody...

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

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...

On a summer morning, Chichou, a six-year-old girl, invite us to discover what her daily life is made of. Perhaps at the cost of what childhood should...

Khris, a shy lesbian haunted by a Greek chorus of judgmental church ladies in her head, must silence her internalized shame and confront romantic...

Clarence is an overly aggressive basketball fanatic who assembles an unlikely team of amateur detectives to stop a corrupt businessman from...

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

A young woman accepts a job on a property with a traumatic history. Upon her arrival, she soon realizes that the nightmares of her childhood are...

When his father refuses to stop reaching out, a young man groomed online at twelve must decide whether to finally let someone see what was left...

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

A story of a fragmented friendship finding new ground, director Daniel Stine’s feature film debut Virginia Minnesota begins with a young woman...

A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

tercerosombra is a surreal and experimental short film about suppressed emotions, childhood fears, bodily anxiety and the fragile relationship...

A young man grapples with his past in care when he's faced with a life-changing responsibility

A popular live streamer gets invited to a podcast where the questions begin to blur the line between reality and his traumatic past.

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