The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Act of Violence (1949), Fuse (2003), Cabaret Balkan (1998), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), The Pawnbroker (1964), The Blue Dahlia (1946) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Post-war Trauma movies.
Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank actually aided his Nazi captors, and he closely guards this secret. Frank's shameful past comes back to visit him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) emerges, intent on making the turncoat pay for his betrayal. As Joe closes in on Frank, the traitor goes into hiding, abandoning his wife, Edith (Janet Leigh), who has no clue about her husband's wartime transgressions.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, drama, mystery, revenge, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: President Bill Clinton's plans to visit to the town of Tesanj, Bosnia-Herzegovina, prompt the alcoholic former police chief Faruk (Enis Beslagic) to hatch a wacky plan to avenge the wartime death of his son.
Plot Keywords: war, conflict, soldiers, survival, humanity, friendship, danger ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People, each representing an aspect of the Serbian character, spend a hectic and frightening night in a city.
Plot Keywords: moral decay, multi-narrative, despair, hatred, revenge, social alienation, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Major Ben Marco (Frank Sinatra) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Iselin (Angela Lansbury). She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have had nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond...
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, brainwashing, conspiracy, espionage, mind control, assassination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.—Neel V Kumar <neelvk@iname.com>
Plot Keywords: feminism, social critique, moral dilemmas, personal sacrifice, capitalism, social change, emotional alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol's assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, racial discrimination, jewish, new york, psychological trauma, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, detective, murder, veteran, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes up with some ideas.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, sniper, murder, police, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).
Plot Keywords: family conflict, career vs family, female protagonist, psychological trauma, marital crisis, afghanistan war, family responsibility ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house - forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, emotional, father-son relationship, memory, loss ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Scott, a troubled Coast Guardsman assigned to a fog-bound station on a remote stretch of beach, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress when he survives a mine explosion that sinks his ship. Although he is engaged to a beautiful young woman who loves him, he becomes involved with an enigmatic femme fatale whom he meets near the beached wreckage of a torpedoed ship. She is married to a renowned painter who was blinded in a traumatic, but mysterious incident, details of which are very hazy. Although they only live in a small cottage, the couple have an ambivalent relationship especially in regards to his priceless cache of unsold paintings, a relationship that evolves into a romantic triangle as Scott falls under her seductive spell.—dule1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: film noir, psychological thriller, love triangle, mystery, moral dilemma, american film, repressed emotions ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: war, psychological trauma, soldiers, french film, female director, military, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
Plot Keywords: psychoanalysis, mental illness, cultural conflict, based on a true story, identity, memory, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Civil War is over and the South has fallen, but Col. Jonas (Joseph Cotten) has a plan to revive the Confederacy. He raids a Union Army detail and walks away with valuable treasure that he intends to put to use raising another rebel army. Jonas needs to keep the treasure safe during shipment, so he places it in a coffin and forces saloon girl Claire (Norma Bengell) to play widow. Claire is unwilling to do her part, however, and puts herself in danger by opposing the dangerous Jonas.
Plot Keywords: western, spaghetti western, revenge, civil war, violence, family conflict, bounty hunter ...
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