Can y’all give me names of films with representations of suicide in them? Its for a project if you’re wondering,
thanks,
mog
First one that popped into my head is Monster’s Ball and the second is Magnolia (sort of, in the preface).
More will be along shortly, I’m sure.
DD
Off the top of my head:
The Front
Les Miserables
Girl Interrupted
MAS*H (unsuccessful)
Harold and Maude (not successful)
Dinner at Eight
On the Beach (the mother lode of suicide in film)
Swing Kids
Better Off Dead (black comedy)
Shawshank Redemption
Thelma and Louise
Lethal Weapon
Or you can go here and see a listing of over 1000 with “suicide” as a keyword. Hope this helps!
Ordinary People
Veree Teasdale’s leap in Skyscraper Souls
Joan Crawford’s drowning in Humoresque
Walter Huston’s throat-slashing in Rain
Great Garbo/Vivien Leigh’s train leap in* Anna Karenina*
Katharine Hepburn’s plane dive in Christopher Strong
Fredric March/James Mason/Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born
Lowell Sherman in What Price Hollywood?
Richard Barthelmess in Broken Blossoms
Full. Metal. Jacket.
Gets to me eveytime. Boy, what a haunting scene.
Kevin Costner’s (uncredited) wrists in The Big Chill
Hudsucker Proxy
Fire Within by Louis Malle. The whole film centers around a planned suicide.
Stroszek by Werner Herzog.
The Reflecting Skin by Philip Ridley. A horrific coming-of-age story set in the 50s. Dad goes a little bit crazy at an old gas station.
Sixth Sense has a suicide at the beginning.
Airplane!
Lonely Guy
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Hairdresser’s Husband
Some movies don’t have actual suicides, but do have either attempts, dream sequences, or characters with major suicidal ideation. Including:
City Lights
Hannah and her Sisters
Buffalo '66
Heathers
Scent of a Woman/Profumo di donna (attempted)
A Clockwork Orange (attempted)
The Virgin Suicides. As the title suggests, that’s virtually ALL the film is about and it has some beautiful in-depth performances. Loved the book and the film.
Leaving Las Vegas
slightly off-beam, but the opera Madame Butterfly ends with a suicide. no time to search now, but if there isn’t a literal film version of the opera, i believe a few years ago there was a movie based on the general plotline. now what was its name?
A Few Good Men
Boogie Nights
28 Days
About a Boy
'night Mother
White Oleander
Sophie’s Choice
An Officer and a Gentleman
It’s a Wonderful Life
What Dreams May Come
Groundhog Day
The Hours
Saturday Night Fever
Does attempted suicide count? Luke Wilson has a pretty good scene in Royal Tennenbaums.
Aside from that, ther’es a pretty disturbing one in The Rules of Attraction.