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Germany, Year Zero (1948)
, 1h18Directed by Carlo Lizzani, Roberto Rossellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about children, Films about suicide
Actors Franz-Otto Krüger, Jo Herbst
Thirteen-year-old Edmund Kohler lives in devastated, post-World War II Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Karl-Heinz. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with soldiers of the Allied forces, but she resists her friends' advice to prostitute herself. Karl-Heinz is the older son who fought in the war and is a burden to the struggling family, refusing to register with the police and get a ration card because he is afraid of what would happen if they found out he fought to the bitter end. The Kohlers and others have been assigned to the apartment home of the Rademachers by the housing authority, much to Mr. Rademacher's irritation.
The Fire Within (1963)
, 1h48Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about suicide
Actors Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Hubert Deschamps, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Jean-Paul Moulinot
Alain Leroy, a recovering alcoholic at a rehabilitation clinic in Versailles suffers with a depression. He intends to commit suicide, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one final time, trying to find a reason to live.
Poetry (2010)
, 2h19Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction
Actors Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee David, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Hee-ra, Jang Hye-jin
The movie opens on a river scene with children playing on the bank. The body of a girl in a school uniform floats by.
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
, 2h28Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about families, Politique, Prison films, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadejda Mikhalkova, Inna Oulianova, André Oumansky
The Soviet Union, summer 1936. Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov, his wife Maroussia (Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė), and their young daughter Nadia are relaxing in a banya, when they are suddenly interrupted. A peasant from the local collective farm explains that the Soviet Army's tanks are about to crush the wheat harvest as part of general maneuvers. Although annoyed to be bothered during his vacation, Kotov rides on horseback to where the tank crews are confronting outraged peasants.
, 1h26Directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Disaster films
Boy Interrupted (2009)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Gabhricha Paus (2009)
, 1h35Directed by Satish Manwar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Sonali Kulkarni, Girish Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash
The plot of the movie is based on simple aspirations, the undying urge in the human race to live and to live against all odds.The film is about the life of a farmer Kisna (Girish Kulkarni), who is trying to get a good crop in the drought-stricken Vidarbha region, which has been notorious for farmer suicides. It also allegorically tells about how lack of information and education amongst the farmers, can ruin them, despite their indefatigable spirit.
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
, 1h50Directed by Felix Van Groeningen
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Jan Bijvoet, Blanka Heirman, Jan Hammenecker
The film is set in Ghent, in the Flemish Region of Belgium, and explores the lives of Didier and Elise over seven years as they fall in love through their passion for bluegrass music. They have a daughter, Maybelle, who develops cancer after her sixth birthday, and succumbs to it within a year. The outcome of Maybelle's illness has a devastating effect on their relationship and their lives.
Taste of Cherry (1997)
, 1h39Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Homayoun Ershadi, Homayoun Ershadi
Mr Badii (Homayon Ershadi), a middle-aged man, drives through Tehran looking for someone to do a job for him, and he offers a large amount of money in return. During his drives with prospective candidates, Badii reveals that he plans to kill himself and has already dug the grave. He needs someone to throw earth on his body, after his death. He does not discuss why he wants to commit suicide.
Detachment (2011)
, 1h37Directed by Tony Kaye
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about suicide
Actors Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson
Detachment is a chronicle of one month in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody). Barthes' method of imparting vital knowledge to his temporary students is interrupted by the arrival of three women in his life — the damaged and naive prostitute Erica (Sami Gayle), a fellow teacher (Christina Hendricks) and a troubled teen named Meredith (Betty Kaye). These women all have profound effects on Barthes' life, forcing him to both re-discover aspects of his own personality, and to come to terms with both the tragic suicide of his mother and the impending death of his grandfather. The film is punctuated with flashbacks of scenes of Barthes' young childhood and his mother's suicide.
Ordinary People (1980)
, 2h4Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry
Actors Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. He feels alienated from his friends and family and begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger (Judd Hirsch). Berger learns that Conrad was involved in a sailing accident in which his older brother, Buck, whom everyone idolized, died. Conrad now deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt.
Jules and Jim (1962)
, 1h42Directed by François Truffaut, Robert Bober
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Buddy films
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Jean-Louis Richard
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile, and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea.
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
, 2h4Directed by Elia Kazan, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Joanna Roos, Gary Lockwood
1928 Kansas: Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the most prosperous families in town. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace (Pat Hingle), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.
This Special Friendship (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Jean Delannoy, François Dupont-Midi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Rail transport films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Didier Haudepin, Michel Bouquet, Louis Seigner, François Leccia, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, Gérard Chambre
Georges, un beau et ambitieux jeune homme de 14 ans, entre dans l’internat catholique Saint-Claude, régi d’une main de fer par les bons pères. Il devine, avec étonnement, l’existence de relations homosexuelles entre certains condisciples du même âge ; mais lui-même fait la connaissance d’Alexandre, un beau et charmant élève des petites classes âgé de 12 ans et il en tombe amoureux.
Open Your Eyes (1997)
, 1h57Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Films set in the future
Actors Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri, Gérard Barray, Fanny Gautier
A young, handsome man wakes up to a female voice telling him to open his eyes. He drives to an empty city. He wakes up again, this time to a woman in his bed. He tells her not to leave messages on his alarm.