Spider (2002), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955), Marnie (1964), The Great Water (2004), Begin Again (2013), The Botany of Desire (2009), Celia (1988), Last Light (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Childhood Trauma movies.
Storyline: Haunted by his childhood, a psychotic loner (Ralph Fiennes) has difficulty after his release from a mental institution.
Plot Keywords: mental patient, schizophrenic, father, mother, mistress, friend, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With a strange and powerful obsession stemming from a pampered childhood during the tumultuous years of the Mexican Revolution, the affluent bachelor and suave ceramist, Archibaldo de la Cruz, oscillates effortlessly between fantasy and reality, desire and hallucination. Compelled to taste again and again the delicious fruit of depravity that triggers an intense dark satisfaction, Archibaldo won't shy away from using one of his many shave-ready straight razors, bent on going to great lengths to quench his lust. Undoubtedly, death encircles the scheming Archibaldo, and the targets are always innocent women; however, is he truly capable of murder?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: sadist, wealthy man, governess, mother, police officer, young woman, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland's, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland. He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him. Their honeymoon is a disaster and she cannot stand to have a man touch her, and on their return home, Mark has a private detective look into her past. When he has the details of what happened in her childhood to make her what she is, he arranges a confrontation with her mother realizing that reliving the terrible events that occurred in her childhood and bringing out those repressed memories is the only way to save her.
Plot Keywords: publisher, secretary, businessman, mother, thief, brash, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On his deathbed, Lem (Meto Jovanovski) thinks back to his childhood in a post-World War II Stalinist "reeducation" camp, where the children of parents unwilling to embrace the new realities of Yugoslavia are taught the ways of the communist future. The young Lem (Saso Kekenovski) befriends a boy named Isak (Maja Stankovska), and they survive under the stern but compassionate tutelage of headmaster Ariton (Mitko Apostolovski) and the more brutal ways of his assistant, Olivera (Verica Nedeska).
Plot Keywords: headmaster, assistant, politician, young boy, best friend, old man, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so many abuse victims in communities nationwide. The flashback scenes are from my own abusive childhood. I share these scenes with the hope that others in abusive situations will seek help for themselves and their abusers before it is too late.—Lisa Spurrier
Plot Keywords: teenager, teen girl, abusive mother, abusive father, foster mother, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: parent, death, ghost, parapsychologist, police officer, child, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
Plot Keywords: young girl, mother, father, grandmother, uncle, rabbit, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prison guard Fred Whitmore (Forest Whitaker), who was raised in a violent household, can't let go of his childhood. He hides his pain from his family, and, as a result, distances himself from his wife, Hope (Lynne Moody). Denver Bayliss (Kiefer Sutherland), a death row inmate, must endure the maltreatment of the wardens during his final days. As the execution approaches, Denver and Fred realize they have plenty in common, and they form an unexpected life-changing bond.
Plot Keywords: prison guard, inmate, warden, wife, son, powerful, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terry is divorced from his German wife and has a Finnish girlfriend Christina. At Thelma's suggestion they join her and Bob on a caravan holiday but due to a mishap the men get separated from the women. Thelma mistakenly accuses Bob of infidelity and their row is heard publicly as they are in a van with the P.A. still switched on. Bob and Terry then holiday without the girls and,in a hotel at Whitley Bay,score with both the landlady and her daughter but have to make a hurried,trouserless,exit. Terry decides to emigrate and Bob joins him for a farewell drink on board his ship. However Terry changes his mind at the last minute and disembarks, realising too late that Bob is still on board and heading for Bahrain.—don @ minifie-1
Plot Keywords: friend, bachelor, lover, wife, divorce, amusing, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.—Molly Malloy <mailcall@bluemarble.net>
Plot Keywords: patient, psychiatrist, teen girl, mother, father, creative, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine. Now adults, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise once and for all.
Plot Keywords: clown, alien, young boy, teen girl, writer, zombie, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An independent film about a road trip to find a magical forest of marijuana.
Plot Keywords: salesman, paraplegic, stoner, hippie, stripper, brother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.—Ivana Redwine <credwine@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: teen boy, young boy, father, mother, aunt, evangelist, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th Century tells the story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mould his beliefs - and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego. Loosely inspired by the early childhood experiences of many of the great dictators of the 20th Century and infused with the same sense of dread as The Others and The Omen, The Childhood of a Leader is an ominous portrait of emerging evil.—Protagonist Pictures
Plot Keywords: young boy, american, government official, bleak, brooding, chilling, france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's seemingly obsessive concern over the upbringing of their daughter. Her own adulterous affair with an old flame, however, causes her to neglect her motherly duties until a spate of local kidnapings forces her to accept the possibility that he may be trying to recreate the twisted mind-control experiments of his discreditied psychologist father.
Plot Keywords: child psychologist, wife, daughter, lover, father, thrilling, dark ...
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