Childhood Trauma Movies

Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young...

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 man who was abused as a child by his community returns there to take revenge.

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...

While at karaoke with his best friend Caden, Benjamin is haunted by his past and must face his greatest fear.

Twenty-six years after her parents' dramatic break-up, film director Nicoline Skotte takes on the task of revisiting her childhood trauma by inviting...

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother,...

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

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...

A young man's rapid descent into madness fueled by memories of a distant past of painful family experiences. Main character Michael Rose believes a...

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How...

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

In the apparent stillness of a solitary lake, the memories of two brothers resurface. With them a stone, buried for twenty years, too heavy to be...

A virgin gets visited by the Devil.

A young woman travels to the Teddy Bear Motel after seeing it in her dreams. Between the allure of the motel’s portal into childhood and the...

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...

A woman tells us the feelings of her childhood, through an atmospheric journey to her past, where we relive that traumatic moment: her father's abuse.