Childhood Trauma Movies

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

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

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...

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...

On his 21st birthday, Peter receives an unpleasant surprise and is forced to come face-to-face with his abusive past.

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 family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

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

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...

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...

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

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

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...

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.

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