Childhood Trauma Movies

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

Alice Miller (1923-2010) psychologist and researcher, became world famous for her books about child abuse and its consequences. But how was it like...

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

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

A woman tells us the feelings of her childhood, through an atmospheric journey to her past, where we relive that traumatic moment: her father's abuse.

Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, Jacqueline von Kaenel begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and...

After losing her job, Charlie is forced to return to her childhood home. Tensions rise as long since disposed of memories are brought once again to...

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...

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

Matija, an amnesiac author writing his third book, confronts his fabricated memories and forgotten past. His journey reveals childhood trauma,...

A short film based on a real interview with a kid survived the 2006 war on Lebanon.

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

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

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we...

A man attending a funeral in his hometown comes face-to-face with his past when he is confronted with memories of mistrust, adultery, abuse, and a...

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

A man who was abused as a child by his community returns there to take revenge.

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.