Traumatic Childhood Movies

Claire and her husband find themselves moving back into Claire's childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come...

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...

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours...

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this...

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the...

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

A game becomes deadly serious! An insane cop hunts down five students in a shopping mall after closing time. His life is ruined as he was...

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

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

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...

Life is not easy for a young woman with no parents--her mother died and her alcoholic father abandoned her. Nevertheless, she climbs her way out of...

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.

Years after a tragic event unfolds, Noah finds his long lost childhood teddy bear. Shortly after finding it, Noah starts to realize that the bear has...

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

A man from an upper class family is manipulated into laundering drug money by his brother.

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

When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a...

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...