Traumatic Childhood Movies

A troubled young woman inherits a cabin filled with memories, but revealed secrets of the past ruin her hopes of a fresh start.

A powerful true story about the journey of a troubled teenage girl who finds healing in the most unlikely of places, and who must choose to either...

The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his...

Explores the emotional highs and lows of Theo Fleury’s journey, both on and off the ice. A seven-time NHL All-Star, Olympic gold medalist, and...

Plagued by a hidden childhood trauma that is destroying his life, an obsessive-compulsive MMA fighter moves to Fire Island and pretends to be gay in...

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

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

The main character of the film, Akif, escapes from an orphanage to find his mother. On this painful journey, with an uncertain ending, the...

Monica was born into the darkness of abuse and forged in trauma. Once triggered, Monica embarks on a journey using her manipulative personality -...

Two people on a road-trip through Europe and Morocco to find inner freedom.

Noah Holiday lives his life being constantly reminded of a tragic event that occurred while he was a baby in 2004. During his rough times alone, Noah...

A young woman's life has very little going for her, her mother having died and her alcoholic father having abandoned her. Nevertheless, she climbs...

The film follows Michael Moskowitz’s work with a New York-based therapist named Kirkland Vaughns, one of the few African-American Freudian...

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's...

During a family dinner, Marine, a young women firefighter and pyromaniac, and Simon, her brother who's suffering from depression, see each other...

While recording a video tribute to his family, Leo (Rafael Gevú) unravels special moments lived with his beloved uncle Raul to free himself...

Marc Page, a physics teacher and amateur writer, is thrown into the memory of a traumatic incident from his childhood during his daily commute. He...

A traumatised mother sets off on a personal mission to retrieve her daughter’s favourite stuffed animal from their old home, but can she pull...

A found footage film about suicidal ideation. Text written by Hannelore Commers.