Top Suicide Attempt Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Anne Wiazemsky

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Walter Green

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Franu00e7ois Lafarge

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Jean-Claude Guilbert

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

7.5 513 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Sweden

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Plot: suicide, rape, countryside, misery, donkey, gang leader, youth gang, black and white, ...

Cast

William Finley

Paul Williams

Jessica Harper

George Memmoli

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

7.5 755 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.

Plot: mask, new york city, rock 'n' roll, suicide attempt, greed, haunted house, phantom, palace, ...

Cast

Tristan Harris

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Jeff Seibert

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Bailey Richardson

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Joe Toscano

The Social Dilemma (2020)

7.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), technology, silicon valley, high tech surveillance, internet, surveillance, big corporation, media manipulation, ...

Cast

Alberto Ammann

Luis Tosar

Antonio Resines

Marta Etura

Cell 211 (2009)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, Spain

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: 18

Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Plot: suicide, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, prison cell, penitentiary, prison guard, flashback, ...

Cast

Hayato Ichihara

Shugo Oshinari

Yu Aoi

Ayumi Ito

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

7.4 299 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Plot: suicide, bullying, okinawa, coming of age, middle school, kendo, junior high school, japanese junior high schooler

Place: japan

Cast

Jane Adams

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Dylan Baker

Lara Flynn Boyle

Happiness (1998)

7.4 946 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Style: shocking

Plot: pedophilia, depression, suicide, secret love, rape, strike, sibling relationship, new jersey, ...

Cast

Rosanna Arquette

Jean-Marc Barr

Jean Reno

Paul Shenar

The Big Blue (1988)

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 168 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.

Plot: dying and death, friendship, suicide, diving, sports, parent child relationship, ocean, competition, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Prithviraj Sukumaran

Kavya Madhavan

Indrajith Sukumaran

Jayasurya

Classmates (2006)

7.4 36 votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 150 min.

Story: Years after graduating from college, a few friends from across the world decide to get together for a reunion. But on the night of the reunion, one of them attempts suicide and goes into a coma.

Plot: friendship, police, suicide attempt, politician, tragic love, election, college reunion

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Cast

Carmen Maura

Antonio Banderas

Julieta Serrano

Maru00eda Barranco

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

7.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Plot: infidelity, friendship, airport, madrid, spain, suicide attempt, pregnancy, female friendship, ...

Cast

Elliott Gould

Nina van Pallandt

Sterling Hayden

Mark Rydell

The Long Goodbye (1973)

7.4 777 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Plot: infidelity, suicide, corruption, police, cat, detective, greed, mission of murder, ...

Cast

Rena Owen

Temuera Morrison

Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell

Julian Arahanga

Once Were Warriors (1994)

7.4 499 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: New Zealand

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

Plot: individual, suicide, rape, strong woman, tattoo, slum, funeral, alcohol, ...

Place: new zealand

Cast

Nivin Pauly

Joju George

Saiju Kurup

Major Ravi

Action Hero Biju (2016)

7.4 45 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: India

Duration: 144 min.

Story: Biju is an honest policeman who fights the injustice head-on. In his pursuit to keep things under control and clean, he encounters a series of events and cases which test his authority, honesty and integrity. With a week to his wedding, what ensues is a heartfelt story of a cop sans the cinematic hype.

Plot: police, suicide attempt, robber, illegal drugs, dog attack, real life

21 Grams (2003)

7.3 3.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Plot: life and death, rage and hate, transplantation, faith, suicide attempt, loss of loved one, widow, ex-detainee, ...

Patch Adams (1998)

7.3 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

Plot: based on novel or book, nurse, based on true story, psychiatric hospital, hospital, doctor, suicidal thoughts, medical school, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Cast

Dominique Pinon

Marie-Laure Dougnac

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Karin Viard

Delicatessen (1991)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Plot: underground, suicide attempt, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dark comedy, clown, butcher, butcher's shop, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

Ingrid Thulin

Helmut Griem

Helmut Berger

The Damned (1969)

7.3 233 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Germany, Italy

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Plot: nazi, poison, orgy, opportunist, family relationships, industrialist, murder, male homosexuality, ...

Time: 1930s, pre-war

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Takayuki Yamada

Yu016bsuke Iseya

Goro Inagaki

13 Assassins (2010)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Plot: suicide, mission, assassin, samurai, immortality, swordsman, massacre, battle, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: japan

Cast

Ananda Everingham

Natthaweeranuch Thongmee

Achita Sikamana

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Unnop Chanpaibool

Shutter (2004)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Thailand

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

Plot: suicide, nightmare, photographer, bangkok, thailand, flashback, revenge, car accident, ...

Place: thailand

Cast

Paul Bettany

Sophia Lillis

Peter Macdissi

Steve Zahn

Uncle Frank (2020)

7.3 445 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

Plot: coming out, new york city, suicide, funeral, homophobia, uncle, alcoholism, road trip, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Aki Maeda

Takeshi Kitano

Taro Yamamoto

Battle Royale (2000)

7.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Style: psychological

Plot: high school, friendship, suicide, island, based on novel or book, asia, dystopia, gore, ...

Place: japan

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