Childhood Home Movies

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

When returning to a childhood home, traditions reveal themselves like a cyclical nightmare.

Returning to her childhood home after many years, Penelope is tormented by a monster that she thought had vanished long ago.

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home....

Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor...

Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.

After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town...

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and...

This short documentary sifts through the pages of a woman's diary who has recently begun to write her memoir. As she looks back at her life and some...

In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of...

A woman learns her estranged father has passed away. She returns with her boyfriend to her childhood home of Belize, where she is reunited with her...

Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.

An actress confronts her quarter-life crisis by breaking up with New York City and returning home to win back the love of her life.

A young woman follows a strange impulse to return to her childhood home to find her parents missing, her past erased and the house threatened inside...

Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to...

After a big break up Anna decides to move back to her hometown where her brother and sister-in-law still live. While there she develops an unhealthy...