Top Suicide Attempt Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Gene Hackman

Willem Dafoe

Frances McDormand

Brad Dourif

Mississippi Burning (1988)

7.7 2.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Plot: suicide, sheriff, police, funeral, ku klux klan, mississippi river, shotgun, fbi, ...

Cast

Paul Newman

Jackie Gleason

Piper Laurie

George C. Scott

The Hustler (1961)

7.7 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Plot: new york city, suicide, based on novel or book, sports, gambling, alcohol, manager, pool billiards, ...

Cast

Miyu Irino

Yui Ogura

Mao Ichimichi

Natsuki Hanae

Platinum End (2021) TV Show

7.7 249 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, angel, supernatural, tragedy, school, based on manga, shounen, anime, ...

Cast

P. S. Keerthana

R. Madhavan

Simran

Nandita Das

Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)

7.6 52 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: India

Duration: 137 min.

Story: A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.

Plot: civil war, refugee, war victim, suicide bomber, extremist, ltte

Place: sri lanka

Cast

Elle Fanning

Justice Smith

Alexandra Shipp

Kelli O'Hara

All the Bright Places (2020)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Plot: depression, suicide, indiana, usa, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, loss, coming of age, ...

Cast

Ray Milland

Jane Wyman

Phillip Terry

Howard Da Silva

The Lost Weekend (1945)

7.6 672 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Plot: based on novel or book, alcohol, brother, paranoia, bartender, addiction, alcoholism, flashback, ...

Cast

Lee Pace

Justine Waddell

Daniel Caltagirone

Leo Bill

The Fall (2006)

7.6 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Plot: suicide attempt, stuntman, remake, morphine, hospital, patient, bandit, filmmaking, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Alakina Mann

James Bentley

Fionnula Flanagan

The Others (2001)

7.6 7.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Plot: nightmare, suicide attempt, shotgun, servant, cemetery, nanny, haunted house, channel islands, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Oksana Akinshina

Artyom Bogucharsky

Ljubov Agapova

Liilia u0160inkarjova

Lilya 4-ever (2002)

7.6 671 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Style: intense

Plot: suicide, escape, underground, despair, nightclub, human trafficking, based on true story, poverty, ...

Place: sweden

Cast

Rolf Lassgu00e5rd

Bahar Pars

Filip Berg

Ida Engvoll

A Man Called Ove (2015)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Norway, Sweden

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Plot: friendship, dark comedy, black humor, suicidal, pregnant woman, first kiss, bitterness, power of love, ...

Cast

Jeanne Moreau

Maurice Ronet

Georges Poujouly

Yori Bertin

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

7.6 707 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Plot: secret love, paris, france, car race, suicide attempt, arms deal, photography, camera, ...

Cast

Alain Cuny

Rosanna Schiaffino

Jacques Perrin

Isa Miranda

Corruption (1963)

7.6 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 82 min.

Story: Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

Plot: suicide, love triangle, seduction, materialism, loss of virginity, older man younger woman relationship, publisher, chastity, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Time (2021) TV Show

7.6 264 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 6

Story: Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

Plot: suicide, prison, fight, blackmail, prison guard, teacher, drugs, alcoholic, ...

Cast

Jane Fonda

Michael Sarrazin

Susannah York

Gig Young

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

7.6 371 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.

Style: bleak

Plot: dancing, based on novel or book, dance competition, boardwalk, marathon, pregnant woman, endurance, depression era, ...

Gattaca (1997)

7.6 7.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

Plot: genetics, cheating, paraplegic, suicide attempt, dystopia, dna, new identity, investigation, ...

Cast

Winona Ryder

Angelina Jolie

Clea DuVall

Brittany Murphy

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

7.6 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Tom Cruise

Jack Nicholson

Demi Moore

Kevin Bacon

A Few Good Men (1992)

7.6 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

Plot: underdog, dying and death, suicide, navy, right and justice, court case, suspicion of murder, guantanamo bay, ...

Cast

Omar Sharif

Julie Christie

Geraldine Chaplin

Rod Steiger

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: Italy, United Kingdom

Duration: 200 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Plot: daughter, based on novel or book, love triangle, nurse, suicide attempt, loss of loved one, forbidden love, stepparents, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s