Childhood Trauma Movies

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely...

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

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose...

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved...

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a...

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific...

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

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

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing...

Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms. Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation....

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

In a bid to distract herself from an affair, a narcissistic woman befriends a cleaning lady with burn scars, but she soon discovers that the scars...

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...

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...

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...

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

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.

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