Trauma Movies

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection,...

A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.

Gabi is undermined when her only friend gets attention from the boy who assaulted her in the past. As night falls on Tel Aviv, the friendship is...

A girl seeks help and guidance from a robot monster to cope with the bullies at school and her father's new girlfriend.

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with Clara. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and...

A New York artist gouges eyes out with a spoon after the same is done to him.

Suffocating memories dominate the mind of a young woman living alone on a houseboat. Ruled by her own fantasies, she lingers to the sound of old...

Troubles from the past resurfaces as a disowned son receives a distress call from his sister forcing him to decide on the fate of their ill mother...

An eighteen-step scavenger hunt for people loneliest in their own homes. This animated video collage serves as a survival guide and an ode to the...

A traumatized cheer captain races to stop a masked killer and the new tourist attraction aimed to exploit her tragedy from a year earlier.

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past....

In the suburb of Lille, Stéphane holds a tobacco shop with his father, Maurice, a retired military officer. Although feeling trapped in his...

A loner artist with a history of abuse meets a beautiful woman who takes an interest in his life and work; leading to a chilling path of tragedy.

When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality,...

The film tells the bittersweet love life of a group of young men who could not be more different from each other: Ryuji is a teenager passionate...

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family....

High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's...