Movies and books about Trauma

Isabel Coixet (director)

The film «The Secret Life of Words» (dir. Isabel Coixet) is not just a chamber-style drama but a careful exploration of how a person with psychologica…

Henry Bean

"I love and I hate. Why do I do this, perhaps you ask? I don’t know, but I feel it happening and I am tormented." Gaius Valerius Catullus (87–54 BCE)…

Edward Berger

Another truthful series about child abuse and how the past shapes the rest of one’s life.Bravo to the screenwriters—throughout the first episode, we w…

Ruta Sepetys

A bestseller on the New York Times list and recipient of numerous literary awards, Ruta Sepetys’ novel Between Shades of Gray offers readers a chance…

François Ozon

An erotic psychological thriller that took the Cannes Film Festival and many viewers by storm with its subtle premise, where a woman traumatized for l…

Greg Oliver

A young woman named Lourdes is consumed. By whom or what? Society, poverty, illness, her love for her son, her son’s death, and even herself. A Spanis…

Sean Durkin

The film illustrates the transformations in a person’s psyche and consciousness after their experience in a cult—a commune of young people led by an a…

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout. A woman with a law degree and a writer’s talent, which, fortunately, was not stifled by the legal profession. A Pulitzer Prize winne…