This is a list of films about suicide, divided between those in which the suicide is the main theme of the and those in which the act of suicide is committed but isn't the main theme.
When adding a new film, try to provide a short one-line summary of how it relates to suicide or the method of suicide.Main theme
- Bad_Dreams - In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?
- Suicide Circle - A wave of seemingly unconnected suicides strikes Japan
- Joy of Life - stunning landscape cinematography tells two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide landmark, and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery
- The Virgin Suicides - About the suicides of five sisters
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself - A man tries to commit suicide regularly, but his brother interrupts him every time.
Occurrence
- 24 Hour Party People - Ian Curtis hangs himself while watching a chicken dance on TV
- The Butterfly Effect - The main character kills himself in the end to change destiny (or at least in the director's cut he does).
- Constantine - Angela Dodson's twin sister commits suicide because she can see demons and angels walking on earth and to escape the torment of seeing them.
- Dead Poets Society - student shoots himself after being emotionally rejected by his father
- Full Metal Jacket - a marine in boot-camp shoots himself after killing his drill instructor
- Girl, Interrupted (film) - Academy-Award Winning film (loosely) based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen, starring Angelina Jolie (for which she won an Oscar) and Winona Ryder; one of the characters from the mental hospital commits suicide
- Groundhog Day - Bill Murray's character attempts suicide to avoid living through another Groundhog Day.
- Harold and Maude - Harold fakes suicides regularly
- Romeo & Juliet - Romeo ingests poison and Juliet stabs herself in the chest
- Shawshank Redemption - prison warden commits suicide by firearm to avoid imprisonment for corruption
- Sixth Sense - Vincent Gray commits suicide because he sees dead people
- The Unsaid - Andy Garcia's son commits suicide at the beginning of this film.
- Interiors - The family's mother suffers from depression at being perpetually rejected by her former husband and eventually commits suicide by walking out into the ocean.
Attempted suicide
- About A Boy - The main character's mother attempts suicide early in the film.
- The Royal Tenenbaums - One of the main characters attempts suicide in the second half of the film.
- Thirteen - The main character attempts suicide in the middle of the film.
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