Movies: Traumatic past

In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Ch...

A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life....

Dion questions his own existence as he begins to uncontrollably transcend between a real and projected world within his own mind....

The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown....

Amelia's blog empowering women not to tolerate violent relationships has brought her fame, fortune and now someone is out to kill her. Is it the new man in her life, her now paroled ex who inspired the blog, or a deranged fan? Just as she has put the...

9/11 was perhaps the defining historical event of the postwar era. Broadcast live around the world like horrifying theatre, it was a moment in history imprinted onto people's memories. But what was it like to actually live through, and how easy is it...

Following four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bo...

A serial killer preying on unfaithful wives sets his eyes on an investigator's wife. The culprit is a debonair director, whose compulsion to prey on married women stems from a deep psychological trauma....

Rae Ripple, a welder from the outskirts of West Texas transforms neglected metal into works of art and in the process finds healing from her traumatic past....

After the disappearance of some of their close friends on their 21st birthday, overly determined Isa is left to pick up the pieces of the tragedy, fueled by their misdirected motivation. Years later, lost, misguided, and frustrated, Isa is about to c...

Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Full Circle tells the story of Trevor Kennison and Barry Corbet’s shared resiliency and refusal to let their passion for life be limited by Spinal C...

In a quiet, rural Filipino village, sibling rivalry continues through adulthood for two sisters and finally tears their family apart....

Casey, a timid Hospitality worker, works at an isolated country club near Wellington, hiding his deep trauma behind a friendly demeanor and finding comfort in a sheepskin pocket square. His routine life is disrupted when Hunter, an abrasive guest, a...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that was interrupted with such violence? How does one reconstruct oneself when all or most of one’s family were butchered? How does one resume studies and ea...

Evelyn, a young author, loves spending time with her main character, Lucas, whom she has become extremely close to. But as the demons of her past haunt her, she finds herself falling for him, and must choose between getting caught up in a fantasy or...

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert o...

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An all-star hockey player is critically injured during a game. With nothing to do, he seeks a week-long job at a decrepit hotel in Colorado. When he arrives, he must face past trauma from the strange employees and spirits in the building....

Composed of songs and memories, this powerful musical film traces the traumatic experience of young survivors from different parts of Africa. In the village of Conques in France, they found a therapeutic space where they learn to overcome their past ...

A woman contemplates her life as she suffers from anxiety and depression....