Traumatic Childhood Movies

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and...

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...

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the...

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

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...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

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

A musician's growth beyond a cult.

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...

A powerful true story about the journey of a troubled teenage girl who finds healing in the most unlikely of places, and who must choose to either...

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...

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

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

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

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...

Having suffered sexual abuse as a child, Veera grows into a psycho obsessed with sex and kills for pleasure.

A man estranged from his family confronts the painful memories of his childhood and the struggles of growing up with an autistic sibling, forcing him...

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

In this documentary, we follow Zwangere Guy during a period of loneliness, pain, and healing. For the first time in his life, he has stopped using...