Childhood Trauma Movies

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her...

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

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

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.

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...

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

A troubled young adult seduces and blackmails unsuspecting strangers on a dating site.

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

A virgin gets visited by the Devil.

Unhappy with his unstimulating home life, 9-year-old Daniel yearns to be abducted by aliens. He sneaks out of his house to relive the kind of...

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

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

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...

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

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

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

A young man, severely addicted to drugs due to childhood abuse, has his life impacted even further after a meeting with his dealer goes horribly...