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Coup d'éclat (2011)
, 1h32Directed by José Alcala
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about suicide, La précarité
Actors Catherine Frot, Tchéky Karyo, Karim Seghair, Marie Raynal, Liliane Rovère, Nicolas Giraud
Fabienne Bourrier (Catherine Frot), capitaine de police à Sète, traque les clandestins. Bien qu’elle soit usée par la vie, la mort d’une prostituée sans-papier l’affecte. Celle-ci aurait un petit garçon livré à lui-même dans la ville.
My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
, 1h55Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Natasha Lyonne, David Krumholtz, Tim Blake Nelson, Lorraine Bracco, Rosanna Arquette, David Paymer
From the moment he was six, Max wanted to die. He tried shooting himself, hanging himself and even throwing himself out of a window. But somehow, he always managed to survive. Exasperated, his parents have had him committed to a mental institution, where miraculously he's found something worth living for. Her name is Grace; she's a wild mental patient whose death wish is even stronger than Max's. But Max has a plan to save her. They're taking their marriage vows, 'til death do us part, and escaping the loony bin for the adventure of a new start. Max thinks Grace will be cured by visiting her mother, but he has to keep her alive until they get there. She tries overdosing on pills, running in front of a truck and jumping from a bridge, but luckily each time, Max comes to her rescue. Finally, he brings Grace to her mother and in a bizarre turn of events, the terminally ill oddball orders them to dig her grave. Mom says her goodbyes, but not before she tells Max and Grace that they both have something to live for—she sees a vision of their baby girl in Grace's tummy. It's more than the hope Grace and Max have been searching for; it's the wonderful beginning of a whole new life.
, 44minutesOrigin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
The film focuses on the employees who staff the United States Department of Veterans Affairs suicide hotline in Canandaigua, New York. The 44-minute documentary shows the emotional strain the job has on employees (many of whom are veterans, former service members, or military family members), and the deep compassion and devotion they have for veterans in a time of crisis.
Sacred Heart (2005)
, 1h57Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Di Stefano, Lisa Gastoni, Erika Blanc, Paola Minaccioni, Luigi Angelillo
Irène Ravelli est une manager qui réussit dans l'entreprise de sa tante. Sur la trace de ses parents, elle rencontre Benny, une gamine qui lui apprend l'altruisme, et elle commence à rencontrer les pauvres gens de Rome. Touchée par la mort accidentelle de la gamine, elle se met en recherche, prend conseil auprès d'un prêtre catholique, mais ne trouve sa voie que dans un altruisme extrême, jusqu'à avoir des comportements a-sociaux (elle se déshabille dans le métro pour donner ses vêtements)... les psychologues seront pourtant formels : elle n'est pas folle...
Electroma (2007)
, 1h14Directed by Thomas Bangalter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Musical
Themes Films about suicide, Robot films
Actors Thomas Bangalter, Ritchie Lago Bautista
The two lead characters appear as the robotic forms of Daft Punk and are credited as "Hero Robot No. 1" and "Hero Robot No. 2". One wears a silver helmet and the other wears a golden one. An opening scene shows the duo driving in a 1987 Ferrari 412 with its license plate displaying "HUMAN". After passing through a Southwestern United States landscape, the duo arrives by car at a town in Inyo County, California. The town's resident are also shown to be robots physically identical to the two main characters, but at different ages, with different clothing and alternating gender.
Damsels in Distress (2012)
, 1h39Directed by Whit Stillman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Hugo Becker, Alia Shawkat
Newly transferred college student Lily becomes friends with Violet, Heather and Rose, a clique who run the campus' suicide prevention centre. Over the course of the film, the four girls date less attractive men in order to help the men's confidence; they try to clean up the "unhygenic" Doar Dorm; they clash with the editor of the campus newspaper The Daily Complainer who wants to close down the "elitist" Roman letters fraternities; and finally they try and start a new dance craze, called The Sambola!
Early One Morning (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Jean-Marc Moutout
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about suicide, Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Xavier Beauvois, Valérie Dréville, Yannick Renier, Laurent Delbecque, Aladin Reibel
Lundi matin, Paul Wertret (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) se rend à son travail, à la banque où il est chargé d’affaires. Il arrive, comme à son habitude, à huit heures précises. Il sort un pistolet, abat deux de ses supérieurs puis s’enferme dans son bureau. Dans l’attente des forces de l’ordre, cet homme, jusque-là sans histoire, se remémore des pans de sa vie et les évènements qui l’ont conduit à commettre son acte.
Young Girls in Black (2010)
, 1h25Directed by Jean Paul Civeyrac
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Élise Lhomeau, Roger Jendly, Élise Caron, Nathalie Eno, Isabelle Sadoyan, Laurent Lacotte
Une ville de province. Noémie et Priscilla, deux filles de 17 ans de milieux modestes, nourrissent le même dégoût du monde, et la même violence. Elles inquiètent fortement leurs proches qui les sentent capables de tout…
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.
Castaway on the Moon (2009)
, 1h50Directed by Lee Hae-joon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe
Actors Jung Jae-young, Jung Ryeo-won, Yang Mi-kyung
Kim Seung-geun (Jung Jae-young) is deep in debt and his life seems completely hopeless. He jumps off a bridge into the Han River and washes up on the shore of Bamseom, which lies directly below the bridge. After searching the island he finds it is filled mostly with vegetation and surrounded by the city but too far to shout and he can't swim. He finds a duck-shaped boat and begins to like living on the island, free of his debt and worries of city life, though it is not easy.
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.
Dr. M (1990)
, 1h57Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoît Régent, William Berger
In the near future, a deadly epidemic is infecting people throughout West Berlin, leading to people taking their own lives to avoid catching it. All the media reports seem like unusual propaganda. No one knows what to do or how to help, except for one police officer who suspects that the suicides are really caused by a lone madman. His investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Patch Adams (1998)
, 1h55Directed by Tom Shadyac
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide
Actors Robin Williams, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Monica Potter, Daniel London, Bob Gunton
A suicidal Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor to help his fellow patients gives him a purpose in life. Because of this he wants to become a medical doctor and two years later enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia (now known as VCU School of Medicine) as the oldest first year student. He questions the school's soulless approach to medical care and clashes with the school's Dean Walcott (Bob Gunton), who believes that doctors must treat patients as patients and not bond with them as people. Because of this and incidents such as setting up a giant pair of legs during an obstetric conference, he is expelled from the medical school, although he is later reinstated due to his methods actually helping patients improve. Adams encourages medical students to work closely with nurses, learn interviewing skills early, and argues that death should be treated with dignity and sometimes even humor.
Man on a Ledge (2012)
, 1h42Directed by Asger Leth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about suicide, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Génesis Rodríguez
In New York City, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) checks in to the Roosevelt Hotel under the false name of Walker, goes to his hotel room on the 21st floor, and climbs on the ledge, apparently ready to commit suicide. The crowd below calls the police, with Dante Marcus (Titus Welliver) controlling the crowd, while Jack Dougherty (Edward Burns) tries to talk with Nick. However, Nick will only speak to negotiator Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks), who is on a leave of absence, after failing to save a suicidal policeman. Lydia arrives at the hotel room and manages to acquire Nick's fingerprints from a cigarette they share. Dougherty has them analyzed and discovers that Nick is an ex-policeman, arrested for stealing the $40 million Monarch diamond from businessman David Englander (Ed Harris). Nick was given a 25-year sentence but escaped from the Sing Sing Correctional Facility one month earlier, after being allowed to attend his father's funeral. Nick, however, maintains his innocence and accuses Englander of framing him for the theft of the diamond, as Englander lost his fortune and was too proud to sell the diamond.
Double Suicide (1969)
, 1h45Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Shima Iwashita, Nakamura Kichiemon II, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshi Katō, Jun Hamamura, Sumiko Hidaka
Au XVIIIe siècle, un marchand de papier tombe amoureux de Koharu, une courtisane, mais ne peut se permettre de la racheter. Son épouse demande à Koharu de le quitter pour préserver son couple.