Childhood Trauma Movies

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari contemp...

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

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

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 adventur...

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

Past/present story of a young man who lives in a fantasy world of aeronautics to escape a more challenging reality.

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him b...

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 i...

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

While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.

DAY AND NIGHT is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his yo...

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.

Sixteen year-old Bobby is emotionally damaged by his mother's early death. He accidentally causes a nun's death, unleashing a chain of supernatural ev...

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

A mentally disturbed "Hamburger Killer" stalks the streets murdering unsuspecting fast food diners in this 1978 low budget comedy-horror short.

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 ad...

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

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