Childhood Trauma Movies

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...

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

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

Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a...

A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal...

Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote...

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 minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming...

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the...

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,...

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's...

BLACK NOISE is a hallucinatory psychological thriller. A tale of those two uneasy bedfellows; Justice & Revenge. A strangely seductive fantasy,...

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

A dramatic story of childhood trauma and mystical bonds telling of Matthew, a young boy haunted by a traumatizing memory of witnessing a suffocation...

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...

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

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

When Marcus was a child his mother was murdered. His father blamed the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the...