Movies: Repressed trauma

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future....

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and...

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth....

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis....

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a rela...

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires....

A triad of vicious vixens scam (and occasionally murder) hapless, lonely men from the internet but run into a nightmarish labyrinth of deception and horror when one attempts to use her wiles on a far more cunning adversary....

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 ...

A woman returns to her childhood home following her father's death, and begins to remember the horrors of her past....

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power....

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizin...

After a tragedy, a lost boy navigates a mystical forest where he comes face to face with is own fears and trauma....

A young man looks back at his past as he gets ready to leave his childhood apartment....

Iren, who went to visit her grandmother with her mother (Lal), finds her grandmother dead at home. Lal is forced to stay at the deceased mother's house with her child (Iren) for a while to host guests and clean the house. Due to the stress of the sit...

A twentysomething man inexplicably begins being followed by a mysterious figure only he can see. In order to find an explanation, he must confront his repressed demons....

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A pyromaniac wrestles with his abusive upbringing as he becomes consumed by a formative childhood memory of fireflies....

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How is it possible to repress an incident for one’s entire life? How did it happen that she made films an...