Highest-Rated Movies about 'Traumatic Past', Sort by Popularity

Paris, Texas (1984), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Sometimes They Come Back (1991), The Call (2013), September (1987), Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945), Alice and Martin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Traumatic Past movies.

#2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

Storyline: Inseparable best friends and cousins Autumn and Skylar precariously navigate the vulnerability of female adolescence in rural Pennsylvania. When Autumn mysteriously falls pregnant, she's confronted by conservative legislation without mercy for blue-collar women seeking an abortion. With Skylar's unfailing support and bold resourcefulness, money to fund the procedure is secured and the duo board a bus bound for New York state to find the help Autumn needs.—Mae Moreno

Plot Keywords: teen girl, friend, teen boy, parent, doctor, bleak, chilling ...

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#4. The Call (2013)

Storyline: Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue, but then teenager Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) is abducted and calls 911. Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to try to help Casey escape and also to make sure the man is brought to justice.

Plot Keywords: telephone operator, young woman, colleague, teen girl, serial killer, tense, thrilling ...

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#6. Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)

Storyline: In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: schizophrenic, daughter, mother, gypsy, thief, husband, sultry ...

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#7. Alice and Martin (1998)

Storyline: At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him.—Billy

Plot Keywords: model, half brother, girlfriend, father, mother, brooding, melodramatic ...

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#8. Don't Say a Word (2001)

Storyline: A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.

Plot Keywords: therapist, criminal, mental patient, daughter, father, detective, eerie ...

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#9. Dark Places (2015)

Storyline: Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth.

Plot Keywords: murderer, suspect, brother, sister, investigator, orphan, bleak ...

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#11. Hannibal Rising (2007)

Storyline: Mischa and Hannibal, baby brother and sister, are inseparable; it is their love for each other that ties their bond. Their companionship is forever binding, until, with their family, while hiding from the Nazi war machine a twisted set of circumstance sets the pace for a most vicious attack on the future of one Hannibal Lecter for the sworn vengeance for the brutal killing of his baby sister. Years later, we find Hannibal, the teenager, setting up in Paris, and living with his aunt Lady Murasaki Shikibu and studying at medical school here he finds his forte. Still searching for his sister's murderers, still bitter and still ever hopeful of satisfying his desire for retribution. This chance arrives, and soon we are to learn that for a pound of flesh lost a pound of flesh must be repaid. This is the horrific tale of justice and honor, a young man's growing pains that will have the guilty paying with more than just flesh and bone. This is the up and rising tale of the young Hannibal, ...

Plot Keywords: young man, sister, medical student, aunt, hannibal lecter, widow, dark ...

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#12. The Lodge (2019)

Storyline: A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.—Callum Price

Plot Keywords: father, girlfriend, young boy, young girl, cult leader, bleak, brooding ...

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#13. Half Light (2006)

Storyline: After the tragic drowning of her 5 year old son, best selling thriller novelist Rachel Carlson moves to a remote cottage on the Scottish coast. But Rachel's demons have followed her as loneliness and paranoia leave her not knowing what's real and what's imagination in the fight to save her life.

Plot Keywords: novelist, husband, son, lover, friend, ghost, chilling ...

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#14. 28 Days (2000)

Storyline: New York based writer Gwen Cummings knows that she drinks a lot but doesn't believe it's a problem, and if she decides that it is an issue that she could stop drinking on her own. She and her live-in boyfriend Jasper fuel each other's hyperactivity with this excessive alcohol consumption, "a normal life" is not in either's vocabulary. Between Gwen and her older straight-laced sister Lily, Gwen more closely resembles their larger than life mother, who was also an alcoholic and who died because of that when they were children. Lily believes that Gwen's addictions makes her a difficult if not impossible person to love. While Gwen is in a drunken stupor at Lily's wedding, Gwen causes one issue after another, ruining the day for Lily. Gwen is forced to examine her drinking with the culmination of bad events she caused at the wedding, leading to her being court ordered to enter into rehab or jail for twenty-eight days, which is only marginally more tolerable an idea to her than the ...

Plot Keywords: writer, alcoholic, boyfriend, sister, therapist, hilarious, gripping ...

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#15. Kaleidoscope (2016)

Storyline: Kaleidoscope is a taut, psychological thriller that explores the inescapability of a destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother. At the heart of this modern day 'Psycho' are some unsettling questions: Can we ever escape the role in which we are cast by our early circumstances? Must a perpetrator first be a victim?

Plot Keywords: ex-convict, son, mother, love interest, police officer, husband, bleak ...

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