intergenerational trauma movies

House (1986)
6.1 / 10

Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent...

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
7.792 / 10

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she...

Toró (2024)
0 / 10

Drama, Family

Relative (2022)
8 / 10

Documentary

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

The Call (2023)
0 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Fantasy

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an...

Mandarins (1969)
0 / 10

Drama, Family

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

My Father, Nour and I (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

After twenty years, Wiam Al Zabari starts a conversation with his father. Why did they flee from Iraq? Why was that never discussed? Will he be able...

Reverberations (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family....

Children of the Camps (1999)
0 / 10

Documentary

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps during World War II.

The Feeling of Being Close to You (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary, Family

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk...

I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story (2021)
0 / 10

Animation, Drama, Fantasy

"I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered...