Childhood Trauma Movies

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother,...

A young man suffering from significant childhood trauma believes there are portals to the darkness around him that can be accessed through extreme...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

A young man's rapid descent into madness fueled by memories of a distant past of painful family experiences. Main character Michael Rose believes a...

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

Papa has long promised his daughter Mika that he will take her to the beach during summer vacation, but as a golf caddy he keeps getting called into...

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

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 mentally disturbed "Hamburger Killer" stalks the streets murdering unsuspecting fast food diners in this 1978 low budget comedy-horror short.

Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young...

Heta ysyryre gueteri jahasata. Translating from guaraní: Many ways to go! Olga inhabits this world. Just like every day, Olga gets up to have...

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...

Monique is a 35 year old French woman, living in New York. The daughter of a French diplomat who has remarried, Monique has no financial worries, and...

Having suffered sexual abuse as a child, Veera grows into a psycho obsessed with sex and kills for pleasure.

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

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

Anker is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence for robbery. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the money...

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

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...