Childhood Trauma Movies

A short film about a man searching to reconcile his faith and his sexuality.

When a 7-year-old son of the well-known businessman is kidnapped, he has no idea what awaits him! It turns out that the mysterious kidnapper does not...

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody...

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

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

Johnny Taylor has a big problem: he LOVES to drown good-looking girls. When he sees water and attractive females together, something in his head begs...

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

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...

A young man suffering from significant childhood trauma believes there are portals to the darkness around him that can be accessed through extreme...

Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to...

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

Papa has long promised his daughter Mika that he will take her to the beach during summer vacation, but as a golf caddy he keeps getting called into...

A gay Egyptian couple return from America for a family emergency. In this homophobic environment, their secret threatens to unravel under anxiety,...

It seems innocent enough. Struggling young artist Daniel King is invited by his childhood friend Natasha...

After her parents tragically died in a car crash, Lily is adopted and raised by Jeff, the driver of the other car. Jeff's young wife did not survive...

As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.

A psychology student who experienced night terrors as a child must face the chilling realization that her nightmares were not all in her head.

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

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and...

Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the...