Top Suicide Attempt Movies & TV Shows

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Asami Seto

Tomoaki Maeno

Misa Kato

Yuna Taniguchi

Death Parade (2015) TV Show

8.0 605 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, gambling, jealousy, reincarnation, afterlife, roulette, murder, game, ...

Cast

Clint Eastwood

Hilary Swank

Morgan Freeman

Jay Baruchel

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

8.0 10.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Switzerland

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

Plot: dying and death, transporter, strong woman, stroke of fate, advancement, sports, fight, suicide attempt, ...

Cast

Ailsa Davidson

Simon Gordon

Maddison Firth

Vivian Panka

Heathers: The Musical (2023)

7.9 46 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.

Plot: suicide, funeral, dark comedy, bullying, based on play or musical, paternalism, ohio, coming of age, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jung Jae-young

Jung Ryeo-won

Yang Mi-kyung

Lee Sang-hun

Castaway on the Moon (2009)

7.9 734 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Story: Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River – only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.

Plot: isolation, suicide attempt, loneliness, castaway, isolated island, seoul, south korea, han river

Cast

Ricky Gervais

Tom Basden

Kerry Godliman

David Bradley

After Life (2019) TV Show

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

Style: witty

Plot: suicide, depression, husband wife relationship, sadness, grief, dark comedy, grieving widower, widower, ...

Cast

Ingrid Thulin

Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand

Gunnel Lindblom

Max von Sydow

Winter Light (1963)

7.9 506 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Duration: 80 min.

Story: A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Plot: suicide, winter, faith, pastor, priest, meaningless existence, meditative, reflective, ...

Cast

Toni Collette

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Barry Humphries

Eric Bana

Mary and Max (2009)

7.9 2.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Plot: chocolate, suicide attempt, approach, letter, birthmark, only child, bullying, friendship bracelet, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Luna Wedler

Jannik Schu00fcmann

Luise Befort

Victoria Mayer

Close to the Horizon (2019)

7.8 507 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 117 min.

Story: Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.

Plot: depression, based on novel or book, aids, pain, childhood trauma, based on true story, terminal illness, grief, ...

Cast

Eden Dambrine

Gustav De Waele

u00c9milie Dequenne

Lu00e9a Drucker

Close (2022)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

Plot: friendship, suicide, forgiveness, male friendship, bullying, ice hockey, coming of age, grief, ...

Cast

Soran Ebrahim

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Turtles Can Fly (2004)

7.8 242 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Iran, France

Duration: 98 min.

Story: Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Plot: suicide, rape, muslim, refugee, village, landmine, tank, bicycle, ...

Place: iraq

Cast

Tom Hanks

Mariana Treviu00f1o

Cameron Britton

Mack Bayda

A Man Called Otto (2022)

7.7 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

Style: melancholy

Plot: friendship, based on novel or book, suicide attempt, flashback, remake, miscarriage, new neighbor, social media, ...

Cast

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Fatih Artman

Defne Kayalar

Ethos (2020) TV Show

7.7 129 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: A group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meet in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, some by chance and some by force of will.

Plot: suicide, rape, muslim, chaos, betrayal, family relationships, psychiatrist, city

Cast

Brie Larson

John Gallagher Jr.

Kaitlyn Dever

Rami Malek

Short Term 12 (2013)

7.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Plot: child abuse, parent child relationship, suicide attempt, social worker, pregnancy, parole, incest, foster child, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Philip Baker Hall

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Julianne Moore

Magnolia (1999)

7.7 4.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Plot: dying and death, daughter, farewell, regret, unsociability, chance, becoming an adult, parent child relationship, ...

Haibane Renmei (2002) TV Show

7.7 128 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, angel, countryside, amnesia, afterlife, slice of life, tragedy, redemption, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Glenn Ford

Gloria Grahame

Jocelyn Brando

Alexander Scourby

The Big Heat (1953)

7.7 558 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: 15

Story: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Plot: suicide, police, gangster, homicide, car bomb, cop, revenge, film noir, ...

Cast

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Mustang (2015)

7.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Turkey, France

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Plot: sibling relationship, arranged marriage, sexism, run away, sexual violence, teenage girl, gang, female protagonist, ...

Place: turkey

Cast

Homayoun Ershadi

Abdolrahman Bagheri

Safar Ali Moradi

Mir Hossein Noori

Taste of Cherry (1997)

7.7 712 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Iran, France

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Plot: depression, suicide, life and death, muslim, talking, nihilism, koran, teheran (tehran), ...

Cast

Ulrich Thomsen

Henning Moritzen

Thomas Bo Larsen

Paprika Steen

The Celebration (1998)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Style: intense

Plot: daughter, depression, infidelity, child abuse, suicide, parent child relationship, birthday, country house, ...

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