Here we've displayed a list of the best Troubled Childhood films : La môme(2007), Saving Mr. Banks(2013), Pakeezah(1971), The Cream Will Rise(1998), Chronicle(2012), Oliver Twist(2005), The Quiet One(1949), 16 Years of Alcohol(2003), A Dark Place(2018), The Cable Guy(1996), Room in Rome(2010), The Babe(1992) ... ...
Biography, Drama
France|UK|Czech Republic
2007
140 Minutes
Marion Cotillard Clotilde Courau Jean-Paul Rouve Sylvie Testud Pascal Greggory Jean-Pierre Martins Emmanuelle Seigner Gérard Depardieu Catherine Allégret Caroline Sihol Alban Casterman
friend singer musician grandmother club owner boxer engaging melodramatic incredible spectacular brothel normandy, france street hollywood, calif. city nightclub music edith piaf troubled childhood friendship
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
Drama, Comedy
USA|UK|Australia
2013
125 Minutes
Emma Thompson Tom Hanks Paul Giamatti Jason Schwartzman Colin Farrell Bradley Whitford Ruth Wilson B.J. Novak Rachel Griffiths Dendrie Taylor Kathy Baker
walt disney novelist filmmaker movie producer aunt driver charming endearing fascinating touching witty heartwarming hollywood, calif. london movie studio family home office limousine children's book film industry
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Drama
India
1971
125 Minutes
Meena Kumari Raaj Kumar Ashok Kumar Veena Kashif Rasheed Siddiqui Altaf Chandabai Pratima Devi Lotan Nadira Praveen Paul
courtesan prince husband ranger mother madam melodramatic powerful dark passionate india brothel palace secret past family troubled childhood romantic dilemma prostitution song and dance underdog
The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...
Documentary
USA
1998
90 Minutes
singer mother musician songwriter dark emotional engaging fascinating united states concert stage house troubled childhood artistic struggle music family history identity sophie b. hawkins discovery underdog transformation
The Cream Will Rise is a documentary that exposes the turbulent and troubling side of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' early years when a confrontation with her mother forces her to ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2012
84 Minutes
Dane DeHaan Alex Russell Michael B. Jordan Michael Kelly Ashley Hinshaw Bo Petersen Anna Wood Rudi Malcolm Luke Tyler Crystal-Donna Roberts Adrian Collins
teen boy cousin classmate love interest father mother frightening disturbing offbeat seattle household high school party cave supernatural teen angst abuse of power telekinesis video diary troubled childhood
Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.
Musical, Adventure, Drama
France|UK|Czech Republic
2005
130 Minutes
Ben Kingsley Barney Clark Jamie Foreman Harry Eden Leanne Rowe Edward Hardwicke Ian McNeice Mark Strong Jeremy Swift Frances Cuka Michael Heath
oliver twist orphan benefactor grandfather crime boss pickpocket amusing gripping bleak touching gritty london prison funeral home big city kidnapping darkness innocence cruelty troubled childhood
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Drama
USA
1949
65 Minutes
Donald Thompson Clarence Cooper Sadie Stockton Estelle Evans Paul Baucum Sidney Meyers
young boy psychiatrist counselor teacher juvenile delinquent mute person moving sad powerful harlem, n.y. wiltwyck school for boys ghetto esopus, n.y. new york city small town race troubled childhood psychiatry rehabilitation poverty
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
Drama
UK
2003
97 Minutes
Kevin McKidd Laura Fraser Susan Lynch Stuart Sinclair Blyth Jim Carter Ewen Bremner Elaine C. Smith Kate Robbins Marcia Rose Iain De Caestecker Lisa May Cooper
alcoholic father skinhead art student gang member lover brooding intense dark edinburgh, scotland pub alley group therapy alcoholism father/son relationship gangs memory domestic violence troubled childhood fall
16 years of alcohol is about a skinhead named Frankie; his violent childhood, alcoholism and his love for Ska.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
2018
89 Minutes
Andrew Scott Bronagh Waugh Christa Beth Campbell J.D. Evermore Catherine Dyer Sandra Ellis Lafferty Jason Davis Griff Furst
garbage collector boy detective single father suspect mother engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling brooding gritty town office small town united states forest crime scene missing persons mysterious deaths
When a young boy goes missing in a sleepy backwoods town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation.
Comedy
USA
1996
91 Minutes
Jim Carrey Matthew Broderick Leslie Mann Jack Black George Segal Diane Baker Ben Stiller Harry O'Reilly Misa Koprova Janeane Garofalo Andy Dick
cable installer customer girlfriend friend father police officer dark hilarious outlandish suspenseful california house theater restaurant roof friendship obsession television stalking troubled childhood
A lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.
Other, Drama, Romance, Gay & Lesbian
Spain
2010
109 Minutes
Elena Anaya Natasha Yarovenko Enrico Lo Verso Najwa Nimri Ander Malles Laura Meizoso
adult tourist lesbian big city connections film one-night stand troubled childhood identity foreign land 2010s
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
Biography
USA
1992
115 Minutes
John Goodman Kelly McGillis Trini Alvarado Bruce Boxleitner Peter Donat James Cromwell J.C. Quinn Joe Ragno Bernard Kates Michael McGrady Andy Voils
baseball player wife teacher team owner teammate lou gehrig fascinating rousing unrestrained baltimore boston new york city yankee stadium babe ruth baseball troubled childhood bad behavior fame rise fall
Babe Ruth becomes a baseball legend but is unheroic to those who know him.
Horror
USA
1990
84 Minutes
Alex Vincent Jenny Agutter Gerrit Graham Christine Elise Grace Zabriskie Peter Haskell Beth Grant Greg Germann Raymond Singer Charles C. Meshack Stuart Mabray
doll serial killer young boy mother foster child foster father creepy campy frightening chicago house toy shop school mental institution ambulance serial murders killer toys foster care troubled childhood supernatural
While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Canada
2017
92 Minutes
Jessica McLeod Hannah Cheramy John Emmet Tracy Jana Mitsoula Genevieve Buechner Connor Stanhope Johannah Newmarch Craig March Mamie Laverock Laiken Laverock Camille Atebe
doppelganger friend mother daughter impostor teen girl frightening forest evil haunted by the past personal tragedy troubled childhood responsibility disappearance rescue transformation 2010s
A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2012
120 Minutes
Katee Sackhoff Grant Harvey Bart Johnson Robyn Lively Bates Wilder John Shea Andria Blackman Michael Cognata
professor psychologist patient psychopath disturbing suspenseful campus therapist's office psychopath troubled childhood school shootings obsessive love forbidden love 2010s
At the age of six years, Suzanne (Katee Sackhoff) saw her mother kill her father. Twenty-five years later, she is a professor of psychology and lives in fear of becoming a criminal like her... See full summary »
Biography, Documentary
2011
90 Minutes
Bettie Page Hugh Hefner Dita Von Teese Perez Hilton Tricia Helfer Laetitia Casta
model interviewee family member hugh hefner engaging fascinating united states modeling personal life troubled childhood mental illness challenge sexual repression career unhappy marriage sexual awakening sex appeal rise 1950s
The pinup model and cult icon recounts how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Drama
1988
110 Minutes
young boy father bully grandfather grandmother aunt melodramatic eerie moving amusing california vermont family home asylum relocation world war ii small-town life imagination family dysfunction troubled childhood
A homesick Los Angeles boy (Lukas Haas) spends World War II with his Vermont grandparents, aunt (Lea Thompson) and 4-F uncle (Lance Guest).
Drama, Music
2015
114 Minutes
Shirley Henderson Steven Mackintosh Ian Hart Shaun Parkes Letitia Wright Caroline O'Neill Matthew Steer Jack McMullen
troubled youth teen girl singer social worker best friend amusing emotional moving uplifting inspiring london england united kingdom troubled youth troubled childhood singing escape loyalty friendship coming of age