generational abuse

Her films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' examine trauma's cyclical nature and how parental dysfunction perpetuates psychological damage across time.

His social realist works such as 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Sorry We Missed You' depict how systemic poverty and institutional neglect create cycles of desperation affecting families across generations.

Films like 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' use horror to explore how family trauma, grief, and inherited pain manifest in haunting ways that bind generations together inescapably.