List of mainstream films with violent trauma

Violent trauma in film and other visual media has been increasingly tolerated and increasingly life-like and graphic throughout the history of film-making. The effects of watching violent trauma in visual media remain controversial. Some studies show that watching increased amounts of violence on television and film can lead to violent behavior later in life. Other studies show that watching violent trauma can act as a trauma trigger, causing flashbacks and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in trauma survivors. Listed below are films containing violent trauma content of various types. Please add to the lists alphabetically.

Films with Violent Trauma Content
* Domestic abuse
** Boys on the Side
** Dolores Claiborne
** Fried Green Tomatoes
** Sleeping with the Enemy
** Titanic

* Mugging
**Trade

* Hostage taking
* Kidnapping
** Fargo
** The Crying Game
** The Wicker Man

* Murder
** Five Corners
** The Shawshank Redemption
** Gerry

* Suicide
** Dead Poets Society
** Girl, Interrupted
** The Hotel New Hampshire
** It's My Party
** Monster's Ball
** Nowhere
** Ordinary People
** Palindromes
** The Royal Tanenbaums
** The Rules Of Attraction


* Abortion
** The Cider House Rules
** Dirty Dancing
** Palindromes

* Slave trafficking
** The Magdalene Sisters

* Cannibalism
**Delicatessen
**Fried Green Tomatoes
**Ravenous
**Titus

* Gun violence
** Palindromes
** Regarding Henry

* Knife violence
** Crocodile Dundee

* Hate crime-specific violence
**American History X
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**Jeffrey
**My Beautiful Laundrette
**Romper Stomper
**Urbania

* Animal Abuse
** All the Little Animals
** Babe: Pig in the City
** Five Corners
** Straw Dogs


* School Shootings
** Elephant
** Higher Learning

Accident/Accidental Death
* Car accident
**Audrey Rose
**Fly Away Home

* Drowning

* Fire
**Audrey Rose
**Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
**The Wicker Man (non-accidental)

* Train accident

* Airplane crash
** The Hotel New Hampshire

* Death by exposure to elements

* Starvation

* Accidental gunshot death
** Pulp Fiction

* Miscarriage
** Kill Bill
 
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