History DrivenToSuicide / FIlm

* In ''Film/VampireDiary'': Hazel slits her wrists after learning that Vicki is going to have a vampire baby.

* In ''Film/DoctorAtSea'', Jenkins tries to hang himself after he thinks that his wife has found another man.

* Mel Gibson plays a self-destructive cop in ''Film/LethalWeapon'', distraught over the death of his wife. At one point Riggs nearly AteHisGun, and tells Murtaugh that every morning when he wakes up he makes a decision whether to off himself or not.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', If you thought it looked like Zira smiled during her fall it's because she ''did''. It was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] a suicide but that did not officially make it past [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoctlRyGdf8 the storyboards]], because it was considered too dark. Despite this she still looks way too happy to have accidentally fell to her death.

** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':

** After Tyler botches a dish that somebody with his cooking experience, or lack thereof, has no business attempting,
Chef Slowik whispers something to him that causes him to hang himself in a storage closet.

* In ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', the oldest midshipman Hollom is believed by the rest of the crew to be cursed with bringing all kinds of bad luck to the ship. After a series of events involving the crew's disrespect becoming clearer and clearer to him, Hollom [[spoiler: picks up a small cannonball and jumps off the ship to drown.]]

* In Creator/JessFranco's ''Film/{{Venus In Furs|Franco1969}}'', one of the revenge-killings is accomplished by inducing the person to commit BathSuicide.

* In ''Film/ThePatriot'', after discovering that [[BigBad Tavington]] and his men have killed his wife and son, John Billings shoots himself in full view of the other militia members.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'', set in the last days of the fighting in Berlin at the close of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, is essentially DrivenToSuicide: TheMovie, as scores of German soldiers and civilians (UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler being naturally in their number) commit suicide by gun, cyanide pill and grenade. TruthInTelevision, of course; many hardcore Nazis chose to kill themselves over facing justice for their crimes or [[FateWorseThanDeath revenge at the hands of the Red Army]], or even they simply couldn't face living in a world without National Socialism, or a world where Jews, Gypsies and other minorities are alive and not considered subhumans.

* In ''Film/TheRoom'', throughout the film, Johnny's fiancee cheats on him with his best friend, Mark. After Johnny finds out, his response is to throw a fit, trash his home, [[AteHisGun eat a gun]], and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday kill himself on his birthday]].

* The Colonel in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfheApes'' when he realizes he’s been infected with the virus that’s robbing humans of their speech ability. He first tries to get Caesar to do it, then takes his own life when Caesar won’t do it.

* The Colonel in ''{{Film/WarForThePlanetOfheApes}}'' when he realizes he’s been infected with the virus that’s robbing humans of their speech ability. He first tries to get Caesar to do it, then takes his own life when Caesar won’t do it.