| Mulholland Drive (2001) | 7.9 | |
| The Babadook (2014) | 6.8 | |
| Ray Donovan (2013) | 8.3 | |
| Mystic River (2003) | 7.9 | |
| Bones (2005) | 7.8 |
Trauma movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant trauma movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, crying, psychological thriller, suspense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with trauma, injury, psychological drama, death, violence, female nudity, flashback, woman, blood and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as trauma: Speak (2004), Ray Donovan (2013), Elfen Lied (2004), Bones (2005), The Babadook (2014), You Were Never Really Here (2017), Hereditary (2018), Dexter (2006), Seven Veils (2023), Hesher (2010).
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
identity crisis, hollywood, violence, family feud, nudity, power relations, cover up, blackmail, trauma, brother sister incest, relatives, family problems ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, chicago, south america ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
memory loss, supernatural ability, trauma, split personality, childhood trauma, decapitation, sadism, life is a bitch, supernatural, experiment gone awry, social misfits, danger ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
189K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification ...
Style:
witty, suspenseful, intellectual, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, fbi, partners against crime, forensics, partner, teamwork, law enforcement, crime investigation, expert, scientist, ambitious, police investigation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Is relevant?
268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Style:
psychological, suspense, cerebral, neo noir, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence, childhood trauma, hotel, suicide, trauma, murder, child prostitution, suicidal thoughts, traumatized man, teenage girl, perversion, corruption ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
new york, iraq, afghanistan
Is relevant?
448K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style:
psychological horror, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah, america
Is relevant?
912K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Dexter is an American television drama series. The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for 'Miami Metro Police Department' who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have ...
Style:
bloody, detective, captivating, stylized, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, double life, crime investigation, forensics, loner, right and wrong, hidden identity, dark humor, serial murder, dark secret, anti hero, vigilantism ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, y2k, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
55K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style:
bleak, thought provoking, serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
loner, grief, antisocial behavior, depression, trauma, arson, life is a bitch, family problems, rebelliousness, youth, family drama, dealing with death ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.
Style:
anime, touching, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
letter, female protagonist, love, child soldier, relationships, war, loss of loved one, travel, trauma, slice of life, self discovery, orphan ...
Place:
thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style:
depressing, sad, heartbreaking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
sadness, family drama, loneliness, suicide attempt, depression, loss, death, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, guardian, nephew, grief ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
blind character, loneliness, happy ending, nurse patient relationship, haunted by the past, disability, trauma, accident, burn victim, blind man, love, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free- all the while fueling a vivid thesis exhibition.
Style:
detective, psychological, suspense, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, rape, art student, femme fatale, art class, rape and revenge, murder, female vigilante, violence, party, female psychopath ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, bleak, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, dancer, incest, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, ballerina, trauma, eating disorder, sex with brother, dancing ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pittsburgh
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had ...
Style:
anime, psychological, sadistic, adult animation, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, mature, folklore, trauma, village, fear, mysterious death, under the surface, mental illness, rage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, autism, brother sister incest, orphan, trauma, pursuit, on the run, brother sister relationship, incest, mentally challenged, child abandonment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Is relevant?
518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
Style:
sexy, emotional, cult classic, sexual, erotic ...
Plot:
captive, sex scene, destiny, trauma, nymphomaniac, promiscuous woman, sex addict, outdoor sex, sexual harassment, nervous breakdown, sexualized violence, unfaithful girlfriend ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, mississippi, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Style:
ambiguous ending, crying, road movie, prehistoric, biting ...
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, monster, post war japan, trauma, nightmare, orphan, island, baby, giant monster, post war, scientist ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, year 1945, post world war two, year 1946 ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pedophile, childhood sexual abuse, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual abuse, forced sex, abuse, 13 year old, woman, mother daughter relationship, investigation, child rape ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire ...
Style:
crying, inspirational, non-linear
Plot:
nudity, trauma, female nudity, death of mother, transvestite, loss of mother, street gang, bullying, turkish bath, sexual attraction, voice over narration, bare chested male ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
cerebral, sexy, philosophical, visual, art house ...
Plot:
grief, classical music, musician, solitude, loss of child, sex, mourning, trauma, loneliness, depression, stripper, car accident ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style:
sincere, erotic, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, gang rape, teenage girl, trauma, memory, beach, rapist, journalist, coping, musician's life ...
Place:
florida, usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
male rape victim, male nudity, sex scene, trauma, childhood trauma, revenge, bare butt, haunted by the past, boy, rage, storytelling, traumatized man ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
532K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic horror, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, monster, paranormal, ghost, demon, brother brother relationship, supernatural ability, creature, angel, supernatural power, peril ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 80s, year 1958, year 1978 ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, murder, home invasion, revenge, rape, violent, rape and revenge, sex, sexual assault, vigilante, rape turns to consensual sex, protective male ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
england, cornwall, britain, europe, united kingdom
Is relevant?
144K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, controversy, fear, violence, woods, female nudity, nudity, black magic, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
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