Suicidal movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant suicidal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, realistic, serious, depressing, melancholic and sad films and TV shows about / with suicidal, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, psychological drama, mental disorder, coming of age, friendship, death and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Japan, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as suicidal: Goodbye Solo (2008), Veronika Decides to Die (2009), 13 Reasons Why (2017), 12 Suicidal Teens (2019), Kill Me Please (2010), The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017), The Butcher Boy (1997), The Sea of Trees (2015), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Just Before I Go (2014).
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Style:
touching, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicidal, taxi driver, friendship, depression, immigrant, loneliness, mentor, character study, elderly, suicide, society, regret ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, africa, southern usa, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sincere, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
suicide, suicidal, mental institution, coma, female protagonist, terminal illness, hopes, suicide attempt, starting over, doctors and patients, depression, life & death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, ireland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Style:
emotional, psychological, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, troubled teen, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, lgbtq ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
12 boys and girls gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The 12 boys and girl attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
suicidal, japanese teenager, abandoned hospital, mysterious man, teenager, stranger, teenage girl, twists and turns, murder, suicide attempt, trap, mass murder ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, realistic, bleak, feel good ...
Plot:
suicidal, suicide, dark humor, doctors and patients, last wish, power relations, dealing with death, life is a bitch, terminal illness, serial killer, obsession, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
forest, suicidal, murder, brutality, violence, psychopath, masked killer, pursuit, blood, revenge, maniac, fear ...
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, cult classic, depressing ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, bullying, boarding school, transformation, life is a bitch, human nature, family problems ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Style:
sad, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
forest, spirituality, aeroplane, doctor, regret, suicidal, survival, mental disorder, loss of wife, professor, anger, rescue ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style:
road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, gay, relationships, brutality, loneliness, midlife crisis, suicide, closeted homosexual, down syndrome, guilt, dark humor, family relations ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, death, hitchhiker, suicide attempt, friendship, on the road, gay brother, suicidal, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
turkey, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style:
sexy, gothic, teen, sad, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
suburbs, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, coming of age, overbearing parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, suicidal, friendship, suburban life, sisters ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
detroit, michigan, yale university
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, clever, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, twists and turns, robbery, caper, police, happy ending, perfect crime, mind game, conspiracy, investigation, nypd, negotiator ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie ...
Style:
dark comedy, ironic, light, feel good, cynical ...
Plot:
death wish, writers, suicide attempt, hitman, traumatized man, psychological manipulation, suicidal tendency, kidnapping, criminal, saving a life, chase, killer ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sick of her life, housewife Nancy just wants it to be over and done with, but rather than kill herself, she hires a stranger from the Internet to do the job for her. But fate takes a strange turn when she meets her killer and the two fall in love. ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, erotic, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, perversion, rape victim, self mutilation, adultery, suicidal, rough sex, self discovery, fall in love, destructive relationship, death wish, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
baltimore, usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, bleak, thought provoking, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, high school life, teen angst, human relationship, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
child's point of view, coming of age, dysfunctional family, society, small town, young heroes, lifestyle, family life, family problems, understanding, obsession, youth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Perry Roberts is about to graduate from a prestigious private college. The son of a corrupt Congressman, Perry has lost faith in all the things he held true - his family, girlfriend, and the American Dream. He finds himself emotionally bereft and ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, serious, psychological, touching
Plot:
drug abuse, russian roulette, friendship, rebellion, class differences, self discovery, self destructing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, frustration, suicidal thoughts, depression, freedom ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, dark comedy, black comedy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicidal, social satire, dysfunctional family, teenager, husband wife relationship, journey, save the day, aunt nephew relationship, mediterranean, atmosphere, teenage protagonist, half sister ...
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
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 ...
Style:
anime, serious, adult animation, manga, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide, reincarnation, high school life, dealing with death, supernatural, one more chance, suicidal, afterlife, memory loss, everyday life, brother brother relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
Style:
touching, melancholic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
self discovery, overweight, friendship, youth, parents and children, coming of age, music band, misfit, unsupportive parent, suicidal, little boy, fat man ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ethiopia, seattle, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four lost souls decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When they meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family.
Style:
emotional, touching, dark comedy, teen, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
new year, friendship, coping, dark humor, introspection, direction and purpose, unfulfillment, dull life, group of strangers, cause and meaning, suicidal, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dominik is an ordinary boy. He's got loads of friends, the hottest girl in school, rich parents and money to spend on brand-name clothes. But one innocent kiss with a mate changes everything. He begins to isolate himself from the outside world, ...
Style:
tense, bleak, captivating, serious, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
suicide, escape from reality, gay, youth, depression, emo, alienation, delusion, internet, mental illness, fictional reality, self harm ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style:
anime, sincere, touching, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, teenager, high school, japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, japanese school, suicide attempt, redemption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Style:
depressing, disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
depression, dancing, social commentary, survival, contest, competition, great depression, cynicism, mental breakdown, exhaustion, contests and competitions, heart attack ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1969, 1920s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, chicago, dallas texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Calvin, an alcoholic wastrel, is forced to find a new job after he is fired from his grounds-keeping job at a golf course. After scaring away other potential applicants, he is hired to tend the grounds of a beautiful hillside mansion by Julie, the ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcoholic, suicidal, suicidal tendency, alcoholism, loneliness, drunkenness, suicide, character study, substance abuse, self destructing, friends ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
depressing, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Can a coward commit suicide?
Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, suicidal, jazz, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, down on your luck, life, character study, self discovery, suicide attempt, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan
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