Childhood Trauma Movies

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing...

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

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let...

Danny is a troubled teen with a difficult home life. His parents' marriage has disintegrated, and his father's already found someone else he'd like...

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

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

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...

Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses...

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.

Clarence is an overly aggressive basketball fanatic who assembles an unlikely team of amateur detectives to stop a corrupt businessman from...

When his father refuses to stop reaching out, a young man groomed online at twelve must decide whether to finally let someone see what was left...

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...

As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.

A gay Egyptian couple return from America for a family emergency. In this homophobic environment, their secret threatens to unravel under anxiety,...

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.