Childhood Trauma Movies

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

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. ...

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming...

Three teenage brothers are terrorized by a trio of escaped mental patients disguised as clowns.

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

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

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or...

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

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

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of...

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

A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in...

A horribly burned man escapes from a mental institution and terrorizes teenagers at a party.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver...

A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.

While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where...

Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and...