Top Suicide Attempt Movies & TV Shows

A Single Man (2009)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, professor, grief, suicidal, los angeles, california, death of lover, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Sonakshi Sinha

Vijay Varma

Gulshan Devaiah

Sohum Shah

Dahaad (2023) TV Show

7.3 34 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: India

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Women are disappearing without a trace in Rajasthan and nobody seems surprised. But police officer Anjali Bhaati notices a similarity in the cases: long nightly phone calls and a boyfriend that no one in the neighbourhood has ever seen.

Plot: suicide, inspector, police, murder, serial killer, series of murders, criminal, killer, ...

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Ryan Gosling

David Strathairn

Rosamund Pike

Fracture (2007)

7.3 4.4K votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

Plot: suicide, perfect crime, detective, prosecution, murder, lawyer, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

James Woods

Debbie Harry

Sonja Smits

Peter Dvorsky

Videodrome (1983)

7.2 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Style: surreal

Plot: suicide, virtual reality, radio presenter, black market, insanity, paranoia, dystopia, toronto, ...

Cast

Andy Serkis

Woody Harrelson

Karin Konoval

Terry Notary

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

7.2 9.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Plot: suicide, civil war, escape, winter, mutation, peace, solidarity, gorilla, ...

Time: 2040s

Cast

Kazato Tomizawa

Akina Minami

Aoi Miyazaki

Jingi Irie

Colorful (2010)

7.2 315 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, slice of life, adult animation, school life, rebirth, anime, first person view

Cast

Liv Ullmann

Erland Josephson

Aino Taube

Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand

Face to Face (1976)

7.2 139 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy, Sweden

Duration: 114 min.

Story: A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)

Plot: loss of sense of reality, suicide attempt, psychological stress, hallucination, mental breakdown, childhood trauma, dysfunctional marriage, rape attempt, ...

Cast

Tilda Swinton

Tom Hiddleston

Anton Yelchin

Mia Wasikowska

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

7.2 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Plot: guitar, musician, immortality, vampire, tangier morocco, love, detroit, michigan, ...

Cast

Guy Pearce

Dakota Fanning

Carice van Houten

Kit Harington

Brimstone (2016)

7.2 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Plot: suicide, prostitute, rape, gun, obsession, villain, mute, religion, ...

Cast

George Sanders

Barbara Shelley

Martin Stephens

Michael Gwynn

Village of the Damned (1960)

7.2 500 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 77 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, pregnancy, village, youngster, parish, car crash, ...

Place: england

Cast

David Giuntoli

Romany Malco

James Roday Rodriguez

Christina Moses

A Million Little Things (2018) TV Show

7.2 152 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 87

Audience: TV-14

Story: A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly.

Plot: suicide, cheating, sense of guilt, boston, massachusetts, friendship, love, romance, ...

Cast

Tom Holland

Robert Pattinson

Bill Skarsgu00e5rd

Riley Keough

The Devil All the Time (2020)

7.2 3.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

Plot: small town, suicide, sheriff, based on novel or book, war veteran, gun, ohio, west virginia, ...

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Anthony Quinn

James Donald

Pamela Brown

Lust for Life (1956)

7.2 207 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Style: melancholy, philosophical, intense

Plot: suicide, paris, france, painting, artist, grave, ear, painter, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Emilia Unda

Dorothea Wieck

Hedwig Schlichter

Hertha Thiele

Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

7.2 122 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Plot: coming out, suicide attempt, female friendship, girls' boarding school, based on play or musical, punishment, black and white, orphan, ...

Melancholia (2011)

7.2 3.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Plot: depression, suicide, nihilism, wedding reception, wedding planner, horse, surrealism, end of the world, ...

Cast

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Daisy Coleman

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Jim Fall

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Delaney Henderson

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Darren White

Audrie & Daisy (2016)

7.2 200 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Story: A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

Plot: suicide, rape, woman director, sexual assault, cyber bully, victim blaming, rape culture

Cast

Dileep

Harisree Ashokan

Cochin Haneefa

Mohini

Punjabi House (1998)

7.1 25 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 146 min.

Story: A fisherman saves a suicidal Unni, only to sell him to a Punjabi moneylender in Kerala. Unni is then forced to pose as a man with hearing and speech impairment, resulting in hilarious consequences.

Plot: suicide, fake identity, debt

Cast

Tippi Hedren

Sean Connery

Diane Baker

Martin Gabel

Marnie (1964)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

Plot: prostitute, rape, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), chase, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Robert Taylor

Deborah Kerr

Leo Genn

Peter Ustinov

Quo Vadis (1951)

7.1 454 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 174 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, rome, italy, roman empire, christianity, emperor, ancient rome, ...

Time: 1st century

Cast

Sophie Wilde

Alexandra Jensen

Joe Bird

Otis Dhanji

Talk to Me (2023)

7.1 3.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Plot: suicide, trauma, possession, female friendship, addiction, grief, female protagonist, death of mother, ...

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