Suicide attempt movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant suicide attempt movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, touching, emotional, psychological and depressing films and TV shows about / with suicide attempt, depression, suicide, mental illness, psychology, kiss, telephone call, friendship, suicidal and blood plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as suicide attempt: Before I Disappear (2014), Mommy (2014), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Just Before I Go (2014), Manchester by the Sea (2016), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), Cyber Bully (2011), Shame (2011).

List of suicide attempt movies

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Before I Disappear (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Style: depressing, melancholic, emotional, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: suicide attempt, depression, mental illness, self discovery, life, coming of age, suicide, loneliness, direction and purpose, regret, low lives, relationships ...
Time: y2k
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 8.0
 61K
Mommy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style: melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, oedipus complex, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, mother son relationship, mother love, teenage boy, violence, teenager, caught masturbating ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2015, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
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: disturbing, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: suicide, suburbs, depression, overbearing parent, suicide attempt, teenager, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, teenage life, coming of age, friendship, suicidal ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, yale university
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Just Before I Go (2014)
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, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
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 ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
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, dark comedy, humorous, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: turkey, new jersey
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 5.4
 13K
Cyber Bully (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot: bullying, suicide attempt, high school, betrayal, teen angst, teenage life, rumor, popularity, bully, socially awkward, social misfits, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.2
 205K
Shame (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style: sexual, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, nudity, sexual relations, masturbation, suicide attempt, sex scene, lifestyle, erotica ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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Last Life in the Universe (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his lifeless apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of Nid, seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This brings ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: suicide attempt, suicide, friendship, self discovery, melancholy, perfectionist, loneliness, relationships, opposites attract, existentialism, couples, destiny ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: japan, thailand, east asia, bangkok thailand, asia ...
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 6.7
 86K
Stay (2005)
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, confusing, gloomy ...
Plot: suicide, surrealism, twists and turns, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, death, unfulfillment, parallel universe, mental institution, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2005, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, depression, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, psychiatric ward, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, anxiety, suicidal, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
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The Bothersome Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style: surreal, enigmatic, psychological, psychedelic, mindfuck ...
Plot: dystopia, suicide attempt, parallel universe, exile, accountant, nightmare, emotionless, new job, isolation, confined, captivity, confusion ...
Time: distant future
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Ordinary People (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style: depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, middle east, houston texas ...
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 6.3
 8K
About Alex (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style: independent film, inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, suicide attempt, depression, relationships, suicide, friends, group of friends, life philosophy, writer's block, anxiety, introspection, college graduate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state, new york
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
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, hitman, suicide attempt, psychological manipulation, saving a life, criminal, chase, kidnapping, traumatized man, manipulative behavior, killing a pet ...
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 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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 7.1
 291K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas
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The Suicide Shop (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A city where suicide is the only growing business. A shop where you can get everything to cater this urge. In the hand of one family for centuries.. till they get a happy baby. And he has to power to make all around him happy as well.
Style: adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide attempt, family business, dark humor, family problems, changing lives, life turned upside down, suicidal thoughts, depression, family relations, dysfunctional family, hopes, workplace ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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 6.2
 19K
Prozac Nation (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style: psychological, depressing, emotional, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, depression, college, university, teenage girl, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, coming of age, therapy, bipolar disorder, female nudity, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2010s, 90s
Place: harvard university, austin texas
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 8.1
 99K
A Silent Voice (2016)
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, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, coming of age, deafness, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: suicide attempt, depression, redemption, love triangle, mental illness, suicide, fall in love, family relations, human nature, hopes, dark humor, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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 7.0
 43K
Two Lovers (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Style: depressing, psychological, romantic, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, suicide attempt, love, lust, love triangle, neighbor, character study, fall in love, young lovers, life turned upside down, love of one's life, desire ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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The Sunset Limited (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the play of the same name by Pulitzer Prize Winner Cormac McCarthy, this searing two-character drama mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. Set in a New ...
Style: philosophical, talky, minimal cast, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: atheism, atheist, psychology, religion, suicide attempt, dialogue, faith, bible, suffering, suicide, multiple storylines, alone in the world ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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A Man Called Ove (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she ...
Style: touching, ironic, emotional, feel good, scenic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: unlikely friendships, suicide attempt, love, aging, swedish, mentor, life & death, pregnant woman, cancer, friendship, destiny, adaptation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: spain, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 7.9
 92K
Short Term 12 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style: sad, compassionate, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, depression, social worker, adolescence, teenager, suicide attempt, self mutilation, troubled teen, foster child, coming of age, mental illness, self harm ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
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, emotional, intense ...
Plot: suicide, mental institution, suicidal, coma, mental illness, psychiatrist, terminal illness, suicide attempt, female protagonist, depression, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Better Off Dead... (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, dark comedy, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, skiing, teenager, high school, suicide attempt, youth, slutty attitude, machismo, teenage love, young lovers, rivalry, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: usa, california, seattle
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