Key Largo (1948) starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G Robinson. About a war vet visiting a hotel in the Florida keys, they become trapped there with some mobsters when a hurricane hits.
The Ice Storm (1997) a New England family begins to buckle and strain over a thanksgiving dinner before a winter storm hits

The Deer Hunter

Flatliners
:The Ring
The Silence of the Lambs
I agree with The Butterfly Effect suggestion.

Alfred Hitchcock's, The Birds..
Both towns seem very similar. Another is Marnie.
Not quite the same mood but . talk about your childhood demons!
I just thought of another one. The Shuttered Room.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"

Frailty was excellent!!

People said love was blind, but what they meant was that love blinded them.

Frailty is a really good one!

Frailty.. Bill Paxson, Matthew McConaghey

I might possibly be flamed by this - but I think "The Butterfly Effect" captures this atmosphere w/ flashbacks, mood, etc (even to some part the abuse).

The Weight of Water
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That's another movie that stays with you. Has a very oppressed and claustrophobic feel to it.
I read the book when it first came out, and of course, the book is a heavy read, but the movie was good too.
~Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable~

Stand By Me
to some degree
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"Get the pointget the point!" Terry Silver Karate Kid III

A good example is the psychological thriller "Identity", with John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet and several other drifters who are trapped by a huge rainstorm in a remote, Nevada motel. The whole thing takes place at night so it's very dark but the constant rain adds to the tension.
Other examples usually occur in horror films but the tradition has spread to television, with shows like Breaking Bad setting specific tones for moods or even characters (for example, each time someone goes to Mexico, they are drenched in sepia!). Another recent one is Mr. Robot, in which each character gets his or her own palette, with the overall look of NYC usually being gray and bleak.
For a fun example of using color to define mood, try the film "Pleasantville", in which 50's TV buff, Tobey Maguire and his sister Reese Witherspoon are "zapped" back into the show's 1950's world of black-and-white. Slowly, as they change their surroundings, things and people begin to turn into technicolor.
-Those we should know elude us. But we canlove without complete understanding.

Well it's not as good but The Quiet has a similar plot.