Line #105 DrivenToSuicide/Film


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9	Times where somebody is DrivenToSuicide in {{Film}}s.
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13	* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanReturnOfTheCapedCrusaders'', Catwoman, wishing for no more jail time, throws herself down a factory smokestack after Batman refuses to join her at a European cafe (“Holy unsatisfying ending.” says Robin.) This, however, is subverted, as Catwoman eventually returns alive and well in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTwoFace''.
14	* In ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007'', the King in the story kills himself after Beowulf has succeeded in killing his bastard son he conceived with a monster. Beowulf, however, [[spoiler:is by some standards TooDumbToLive, seeing what the King's fooling around did, but nonetheless strikes a bargain with the monster and gives her ''another'' baby. Being also too [[{{Pride}} proud]] to kill himself, he dies in a [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeeming]] HeroicSacrifice]].
15	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', [[spoiler:Manolo's]] death at [[spoiler:Xibalba's]] hands has undertones of this. Believing himself to be responsible for [[spoiler:Maria's]] demise, he asks to see her again despite knowing what it entails.
16	* You could make a drinking game out of all the references to suicide in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''. Within the first few minutes, the Air Conditioner violently self-destructs. Main characters routinely throw themselves [[LeapOfFaith off of cliffs]], deliberately onto high places during a [[LightningCanDoAnything heavy thunderstorm]], and into [[HeroicSacrifice certain death]]. (Although they were all for heroic purposes.) There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kQDNLkT3c one scene]] in particular where a lone flower wilts and dies after realizing its isolated fate. There is a can opener/lamp/shaver character who ''strangles itself with its own cords onscreen'' for not knowing its purpose. By the end of the movie, there's a cast of ruined vehicles in a junkyard which sing about how they're [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0 'worthless']], with themes of despair, regret, intolerance, and loneliness, one of them even ''willingly'' driving straight into a gigantic shredder to be compressed into small metal cubes. Hey, [[ValuesDissonance it was a]] [[TheEighties different time]]. Just to make it even more depressing, the author of the book the movie was based on, Thomas M. Disch, committed suicide himself.
17	* ''WesternAnimation/Charlotte2021'': Charlotte's grandmother is suicidal by the time they arrive in Nice, and eventually kills herself by jumping out a window. After this, her grandfather confides in Charlotte that they have a family history of suicide.
18	* In a particularly tense scene in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplexSolidStateSociety'', Togusa is ghost-hacked by the Puppeteer and forced to take his daughter to the hospital, where the Puppeteer informs Togusa that she will be given a cybernetic body so that she too can be kidnapped, whereupon Togusa's memory of ever having a daughter will be wiped. The Puppeteer then releases Togusa's gun arm, giving him the option of [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident committing suicide]] instead. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the Major has been tracking Togusa the whole time and is able to save him.]]
19	* 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.
20	* In the Happy Science film ''Anime/TheRebirthOfBuddha'', Tokuzo Kanemoto, a reporter and a friend of the Amanokawa family, jumps into an oncoming train to take his own life after his latest report has been proven false and ruined his reputation. When Sayako witnesses his spirit's trial, the three judges lambast him for doing that and lament his denial of the Spirit World and God throughout his entire life before sending him to Hell.
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24	* Several people who stayed in room ''Film/FourteenOhEight'' were driven to this. We also come to find out that [[spoiler: this is true of ''everyone'' who died in [[EldritchLocation the room]]. It doesn't actually kill people (though it can come close), [[FateWorseThanDeath but instead tortures them]] until they take the [[DeadlyEuphemism "express check-out service"]].]]
25	* ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'' opens with with one of the teachers discovering that someone committed suicide in a school lavatory at 2:37 p.m. The movie then flashes back to that morning and shows the events leading up to the suicide, leaving the audience guessing as to who it was and why they did it.
26	* ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. Appropriately enough, the DespairEventHorizon having been crossed long, long ago, only the promise of women seems to have pulled several of the soldiers away from this, particularly Jones. Many others prior to him had probably gone through with it, as the main character's parents had, preferring to die rather than flee from [[HatePlague the infected]] or end up insane and slaughtering their loved ones.
27	* ''Film/ThreeIdiots'':
28	** Joy, a senior of the main trio during their freshmen years, hangs himself out of stress after his project is rejected by Virus.
29	** Later, Raju jumps off a window due of unwilling to choose between betraying his friends or letting his family down. Fortunately he is saved.
30	* ''Film/AbsolutePower1997'': Agent Burton kills himself out of guilt.
31	* In ''Film/{{Accident}}'', the pawnbroker's son throws himself off the roof of the insurance building: presumably because of a combination of guilt at having ordered his father's death, and the possibility that he might not receive the insurance payout.
32	* In ''Film/AdviseAndConsent'', [[spoiler: Senator Brigham Anderson commits suicide just before the vote on the Secretary of State nomination. A rival senator tries to blackmail Anderson into changing his "no" vote by threatening to expose a past homosexual affair he had.]]
33	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Three people commit suicide rather than listen to Ted Striker's reminiscing.
34	* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'': It's also PlayedForLaughs in this film as except for himself and Dr. Stone every other patient, doctor, and orderly in the psychiatric ward where Striker is being held commit suicide via firearms rather than listen to any more of Striker's [[TheBore life story]].
35	* About midway through ''Film/{{Alps}}'', Gymnast tries to hang herself because Matterhorn refuses to let her train to pop music, but Monte Rosa intervenes.
36	* ''Film/{{Apparitional}}'': At the beginning of the film, the crew of "Ghost Sightings" are investigating a pizzeria haunted by someone who killed himself in the 1950s.
37	* In ''Film/AprilShowers'', [[spoiler:Jason]] is unable to cope with his SurvivorGuilt after the school shooting, and kills himself.
38	* ''Film/{{Arcade}}'' starts with Alex finding her mother's body after the latter has taken her own life.
39	* In ''Film/{{Armored}}'', Palmer throws himself off the roof of the steel mill after suffering a CrisisOfFaith when Ty points out far he has strayed from his religious beliefs.
40	* In ''Film/AsianSchoolGirls'', Suzie is unable to cope with the shame of being raped and kills herself by throwing herself off the roof of the school.
41	* At the end of ''Film/BadGirlsFromValleyHigh'', Danielle and Tiffany realise ThisIsntHeaven as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton, [[AbhorrentAdmirer who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move]]. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever.
42	* In ''Film/TheBadSleepWell'', Miura throws himself in front of a truck to protect his superiors from incrimination.
43	* One of the last reveals in ''Film/TheBank'' is that [[spoiler:Jim's father committed suicide after Centabank foreclosed on the family farm. Young Jim found his father's body hanging in the shed.]]
44	* ''Film/BattleRoyale'':
45	** ''Battle Royale'' begins with [[spoiler: Shuya's father]] hanging himself before the events of the movie, and doesn't let up any time soon.
46	** During the events of the BR program, many students kill themselves out of despair, fear, and to avoid murdering others; [[spoiler:Kazuhiko]] and [[spoiler:Sakura]] jump off a cliff together, [[spoiler:Yoji]] and [[spoiler:Yoshimi]] hang themselves with the former's rope, and [[spoiler:Yuko]] throws herself from the lighthouse after accidentally poisoning [[spoiler:Yuka]] (and, in extension, causing the rest of her friends to shoot each other out of the resulting paranoia).
47	** Averted with [[spoiler:Shinji]], who attempts a TakingYouWithMe attack at Kiriyama after he murders his friends.
48	* ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'' begins with Stanley, depressed over his miserable life, especially his inability to talk to the woman he loves, trying to hang himself-- and [[BungledSuicide failing at that too]].
49	* In ''Film/BetterOffDead'' this was a major characteristic of the teenaged protagonist, who attempts suicide multiple times in many different ways. [[spoiler:He's never successful]].
50	* The jumping point of ''Film/BeyondTheLights''. More specifically, the pressures from Noni's mom and the sexualized image thrust upon her by the record label make Noni feel like she has no say or control over her own life. In her words, she feels like she's suffocating to the point that she didn't see any part of herself worth saving. However, it does get [[InterruptedSuicide interrupted]] by Office Kaz, who attempts to [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal talk her away from the balcony ledge]] and then grabs Noni's arm after she decides to jump anyway.
51	* ''Film/BlackRat'': Asuka suggested to her six classmates that they perform a modern version of a traditional rat-themed dance for their school's cultural festival. Though Misato is supportive, the others are reluctant and are repelled by a rat mask Asuka had crafted for the performance. This, combined with [[spoiler:Saki stealing her boyfriend Ryota]], drives Asuka to throw herself off the school roof while wearing the rat mask.
52	* ''Film/BlackWake'': In one scene, when an infected young man is being interrogated as to the wherabouts of his friend, who was last scene getting attacked by a creature in a dirty plastic milk jug, the guy steals one of the cops' guns and points it at them. After a tense moment, he puts the gun to his own temple and fires.
53	* In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', the shame and stress of having a physically deformed son drives Mrs Park's husband to commit suicide: hanging himself in front of the boy.
54	* In the film ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' the nerd Brian Johnson is so obsessed with his grades that when fails shop he [[spoiler:tries to kill himself]] because he knows his parents will say he's ruined his chances fortunately [[spoiler:he is unsuccessful because it was a flare gun that went off in his locker ]] giving him detention.
55	* ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'' ends with Chen stabbing himself after [[MurderSuicide shooting]] Lucy's murderer, [[OffingTheOffspring her father]].
56	* Tom in ''Film/BruteForce1947''. Munsey tells him that his wife, the only person Tom cares about in the world, is divorcing him. [[spoiler:Turns out, Munsey was just lying to get information out of Tom.]]
57	* ''Film/BurningBright'': Kelly and Tom's mother overdosed on pills at some point before the film began. [[spoiler: However, John admits eventually that he killed her to keep her from leaving him and staged it as suicide.]]
58	* At the end of ''Film/BurntByTheSun'', Dmitri "Mitya" Arsentiev slits his wrists in the bathtub of his flat.
59	* ''Film/Cadaver2020'': Hans [[SlashedThroat slits his own throat]] in front of [[TheProtagonist Leonora]] and her husband Jacob. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as he was just acting. He turns up later, alive and well, wearing the fake skin on his neck, with the fake blood tube sticking out.]]
60	* Minor character June from ''Film/{{Caged}}'' hangs herself after being denied parole.
61	* ''Film/CastAway'': We learn that Chuck did a suicide test-run by building a dummy and hanging it from a tree. But the tree broke from the dummy's weight, which would have resulted in a long and agonizing death had it been him instead. He decided not to go through with it for real.
62	* The original adaptation of ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'', called ''These Three'', removed the suicide but the second version did not. After her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to [[spoiler:Karen]], [[spoiler:Martha]] hangs herself due to {{gayngst}} combined with feeling her emotions ruined both her and [[spoiler:Karen]]'s lives.
63	* ''{{Film/Chloe}}'': Chloe kills herself due to Catherine's rejection.
64	* ''Film/Christine2016'': A docu-drama about the real-life story of Christine Chubbuck, a TV journalist who, after years of suffering with depression, shot herself on live TV in 1974. There's also ''Kate Plays Christine'', a film about an actress preparing for the role of Chubbuck in a fictional biopic.
65	%%* Frobisher in ''Film/CloudAtlas''.
66	* ''Film/Constantine2005'': John was driven to suicide at an early age because [[ISeeDeadPeople he saw demonically-possessed people]], managed to get himself [[OnlyMostlyDead just dead enough]] to count as a successful suicide by [[KnightTemplar Heaven's standards]], and spent the rest of his life trying to earn a [[GetOutOfJailFreeCard Get Out of Hell Free Card]]. [[spoiler:He eventually gets it by [[RedemptionEqualsDeath killing himself again]] (and then Satan screws him by making him better).]] This is different from the comic book character's story and motivation.
67	* In ''Film/CoronerCreek'', Chris's fiancee was abducted off the stage by Younger Miles and held prisoner by him for three days (and illicitly raped). She stole a knife off him and killed herself.
68	* ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002'': Dantes's father killed himself in despair over his son's imprisonment. Later, when [[spoiler: Villefort]] is being carted off to Chateau d'If, Dantes has a [[LeaveBehindAPistol pistol left behind]] for him if he'd prefer the easy way out. He almost immediately does. [[spoiler:It was unloaded, however, prompting Dantes to reveal he wouldn't let him off so easily]].
69	* ''Film/TheCriminal'': When Pauly is caught with a SinisterShiv (which might have been planted on him), he snaps and throws himself off the gallery. This is the event that triggers the PrisonRiot.
70	* ''Film/TheCrowd'': Near the end, John is driven to jump off a bridge into the track of an oncoming train. He's lost [[spoiler:his second child]], lost his job, and his marriage is in disarray. John, however, decides not to at the last moment. Ultimately ends up a HappilyFailedSuicide after he gets back on his feet and fixes his marriage.
71	* In ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', [[spoiler:John Ambrose Fauntroy V]] is accused of having black ancestry. Since the CSA is a CrapsackWorld where anyone with such heritage is enslaved, he opts to shoot himself rather than risk it.
72	* In ''Film/TheCube'', the man tries to commit suicide by the end, but the gun he's provided with just squirts ink at his head, upon which every character seen so far all show up and laugh at him.
73	* In ''Film/CurseOfTheUndead'', Drago Robles killed himself out of guilt over having murdered his brother. He would later rise as a vampire.
74	* Subverted and played straight with [[spoiler:Colonel Maguire]] in ''Film/Cube2Hypercube''. The first time around [[InterruptedSuicide he's saved in time by the group]], but the second time he voluntarily chains himself to a wall so he can be killed by one of the traps, before swallowing the key.
75	* In ''Film/DadsArmy1971'', Captain Mainwaring tells Sergeant Wilson that when the Germans invade England, they will stand strong and shall keep firing at them until they only have one round left each. They will save that for themselves.
76	* ''Film/DaftPunksElectroma'' [[DownerEnding ends]] with the two robot protagonists offing themselves. The silver robot dies from a self-destruction timer activated reluctantly by the gold robot. The gold robot dies when he smashes his helmet onto the ground, uses a stray shard as a burning glass, and lights himself on fire.
77	* After [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]], Walenski in ''Film/DarkCity1998'' announces that he's [[DeadlyEuphemism figured out a way out of the city]], at which point he hurls himself in front of a train.
78	* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', this is taken literally with [[spoiler:Talia al Ghul]], who crashes an armored truck and sustains mortal injuries in the process [[spoiler:just to seal Gotham's fate (not that it ultimately works)]]..
79	* In ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', Peter contemplates committing suicide but changes his mind as he rushes off to the helicopter to the sound of heroic music. So he can live a life in a world covered by zombies, yay. The original script had Peter kill himself but ExecutiveMeddling called for a "happier" ending. Played straight at the beginning of the film during the tenement building raid in Philadelphia, when one of the SWAT officers is so overwhelmed by all the horror going around him that he shoots himself. In [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 the remake]] of the movie Michael gets bitten and, after getting the other survivors away on a boat, shoots himself.
80	* ''Film/DawningOfTheDead'': In the intro, after a terrorist releases TheVirus, he puts a gun under his chin and then shoots himself.
81	** Prof. Laborde shoots himself after showing off his bandaged arm.
82	* ''Film/DeadOfNight'': In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water hazard]] after losing Mary to Parratt in a game of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.
83	* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': [[spoiler: Neil]] realizes his father will never accept his vocation and shoots himself in the head. [[spoiler: Neil]]'s vocation is acting. Back then, a lot of people assumed that men in the theater were gay. We're not sure whether [[spoiler: Neil]]'s father suspects his son might be gay, or just fears that dabbling in theater might turn him gay, or is just afraid of what people might think-- but he decides to send him to a military academy to straighten him out and keep him away from show biz influences. We're left to draw our own conclusions about how much vocation, sexuality, and a bad relationship with his father-- that his father would make assumptions without talking to him is pretty awful, but also standard for the time-- played into his decision. It should be noted that ''in-universe'', the father's motivation is a ''time'' issue. The father wants his son to become a doctor in the future; if the son were to "waste" his time acting, that would detract from his doctor studies (and the father is heavily emotionally invested in his son becoming a doctor because he and his wife have made ''sacrifices'' to give the son what they think is his best future).
84	* ''Film/DeadtimeStoriesVolume2'': After being rejected by Professor Weaver after telling him she was pregnant in "On Sabbath Hill", Allison commits suicide in the middle of his class. [[spoiler:Later, her VengefulGhost drives Weaver to do exactly the same thing.]]
85	* Suicide is a recurring subject in the avant-garde horror {{anthology film}} ''Film/TheDeathKing'', with six of the seven segments exploring the topic in some way.
86	** "Monday" depicts a man coming home, calling his workplace to announce his resignation, writing cryptic messages, and then cleaning his apartment one last time before committing suicide by CyanidePill in his bathtub.
87	** "Tuesday" ends with a man's murder of his girlfriend revealed as being presented on a television screen in a room where another man has hanged himself.
88	** In "Wednesday", a man, distraught over his unhappy marriage which culminated in the murder of his wife, asks a young woman to shoot him, only to grab the gun and turn it on himself.
89	** "Thursday" contains a list of people who have committed suicide by jumping from a certain bridge.
90	** In "Friday", a woman receives a chain letter urging her to kill herself, but thankfully ignores it, ripping it up and throwing it away.
91	** In "Sunday", a clearly depressed man violently bashes his head against a nearby wall until he finally succumbs to brain damage.
92	* ''Film/DesertHeat'' only exists because [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Eddie Lomax]] wants to commit suicide but feels he needs the permission of an old friend first.
93	* In ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'' Mary attempts to shoot herself in the head after she thinks she killed three people; they're zombies however. She misses her brain causing her to bleed to death while the other characters attempt to save her life. There is something so sad about a failed suicide too.
94	* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
95	** In ''Film/DoctorAtSea'', Jenkins tries to hang himself after he thinks that his wife has found another man.
96	** In ''Film/DoctorInClover'', Sir Lancelot considers shooting himself after discovering Matron has a crush on him.
97	* ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'': At the beginning John is threatening to jump off a building due to losing the woman he loves. Dr. Mickler gets him to back off by playing into (what he thinks are) John's Byronic delusions.
98	* ''Film/DontListen'': At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Daniel discovers that he was possessed by the witch's ghost in his sleep. While under her power, he took Eric to the pool and drowned him in it. This revelation leads him to blow his own brains out]].
99	* In ''Film/TheDouble'', James drives both [[spoiler:Hannah and Simon]] to suicide. The former is interrupted by the latter, and in his case, the whole suicide [[spoiler:is [[DeliberateInjuryGambit really a ploy to kill James]], and he doesn't intend to die himself. He did come genuinely close a couple of times, though.]]
100	* The plot of ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills'' is kicked off by Jerry trying to drown himself in the Whitemans' pool.
101	* ''Film/Downfall2004'', 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.
102	* ''Film/DownloadingNancy'': The main character feels this way, so much that she [[spoiler: hires someone to kill her over the internet]].
103	* ''Film/DrHeckylAndMrHype'': Heckyl takes the formula specifically to kill himself. The results are not what he expected, but he will eventually get the results with another dose.
104	* In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1973'', realizing he can't be saved, Jekyll/Hyde lets himself fall through a glass roof to his death.
105	* ''Film/DrTerrorsHouseOfHorrors'': After losing his arm (and therefore his career) in "Disembodied Hand", artist Eric Landor falls into deep despair and blows his brains out. Only [[spoiler: he doesn't because all this is only what WOULD happen if the man who cost him his hand, Franklyn Marsh, did not die in a train wreck.]]
106	* ''Film/TheDrummerAndTheKeeper'': Gabriel's mother had bipolar disorder, like he does. She committed suicide via paracetamol overdose. She lingered for four days.
107	* ''Film/{{Elle}}'': Michèle's father, when he learns she is finally coming to see him in prison for the first time, near the end of the film.
108	* ''Film/{{Endless}}'': Jordan didn't actually get killed by robbers. He killed himself in guilt after losing track of his niece, who later was found dead.
109	* Jericho Cane in ''Film/EndOfDays'' contemplates suicide every Christmas because his wife and daughter were killed while doing his job.
110	* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': After being disqualified, [[spoiler:White]] tries to fire the Guard's gun on himself. [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets It doesn't work.]]
111	* ''Film/FemaleAgents'': After giving up the other operatives under torture, Gaëlle begs Louise for her cyanide capsule and takes it, after a prayer for forgiveness, posing in the manner of Christ on the cross.
112	* ''Film/FemmeFatale2002'': Laure's doppelgänger, Lily, kills herself in grief over the loss of her daughter and husband, allowing Laure to take her identity to escape from her vengeful ex-accomplices. [[spoiler: After the ending reveals that the entirety of the movie's events after Laure enters the tub in Lily's home were a dream, she stops Lily.]]
113	* The Danish film ''[[Film/TheCelebration Festen]]'' (''The Celebration'') centres on a family reunion in the aftermath of eldest daughter Linda's suicide, and the AwfulTruth behind the act which comes to light during the proceedings.
114	* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': In "The Cobbler's Lot", Botond lies to Princess Boglarka and tells her that Tivadar died in the forest. The distraught Boglarka immediately grabs a knife and slits her throat.
115	* In ''Film/FortyGuns'', Logan hangs himself after he realizes that Jessica doesn't love him and that he has thrown away his career for nothing.
116	* The film version of ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' departs from the novel by having [[spoiler:Gail Wynand]] blow his brains out at the end.
117	* ''Film/Fracture2007'': Detective Nunally kills himself when Crawford gets acquitted.
118	* In ''Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman'', Christina is driven to suicide after her lover Hans is executed for a crime he didn't commit.
119	* ''Film/GermanyYearZero'': Edmund jumps off a building to his death after he poisons his sick father, presumably out of grief.
120	* ''Film/GhostNote'': No less than three examples:
121	** In 1971, after listening to [[BigBad Eugene Burns]] play his guitar onstage, one man puts a gun to his head and blows his brains out.
122	** After toughing Astaroth, the Hispanic exterminator returns to his place of business, and hangs himself.
123	** When she senses that [[spoiler:Eugene has been woken up]], Ashley [[SlashedThroat slits her own throat]].
124	* ''Film/{{Gifted}}'': Mary's mother, Diane, killed herself when she was just a baby. It's indicated this was due to feeling that she was left without a purpose after [[spoiler: having solved the math problem she'd worked on for most of her life]], which her mother had [[MyBelovedSmother caused further by controlling her life quite strictly]], and became depressed as a result. She had previously attempted suicide before this as well.
125	* ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': According to Diana, her mom committed suicide because of the abuse she suffered at her father's hands.
126	* In ''Film/AGirlLikeHer'', high school sophomore Jessica swallows a jar of hydrocodone pills in response to relentless bullying over the course of a year from her former friend, Avery.
127	* In ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'' Frank Pentangelli is presented with this option as an honourable way to make up for his betrayal. [[spoiler: He graciously takes it.]]
128	* ''Film/Gone2012'': Jill attempted suicide or at least was viewed as a risk for it in the past due to depression after both her parents died, causing her temporary committal to a mental institution.
129	* ''Film/TheGreatStLouisBankRobbery'': After the bank robbery goes pear-shaped, Gino tries to escape. Finding there is no way out, and having vowed he was NeverGoingBackToPrison, he [[AteHisGun puts his gun his mouth and kills himself]].
130	* ''Film/TheGrizzlies'' is about a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, and a teacher introduces lacrosse in the hopes of giving Inuit students a purpose and sense of belonging. The film opens with one suicide, and two more occur throughout the film.
131	* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' tries several methods of suicide, presumably out of boredom after being forced to relive the same day of his life so many times in a row. Among the methods he tries are: jumping off a building, stepping in front of a speeding bus, a fiery high-speed chase ending in a car crash and dropping a toaster into his bath tub. And while all of these actually succeed, it does not stop him from waking up alive every morning on February 2.
132	* In ''Film/TheGuilty'', Iben's guilt over killing her infant son Oliver during a psychotic episode causes her to decide to jump off a bridge, leaving Asger to [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal try to convince her not to]].
133	* In the 2007 remake of ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'', after Michael kills a nurse at the institution he's in after killing his older sister, her boyfriend, and his step-dad, his mom commits suicide by gunshot to the head.
134	* In ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', suicide is present throughout the entire film.
135	** Lady Hideko's aunt hung herself on the cherry tree on the estate when she could not bear to live under Kouzuki's control any further. [[spoiler: Hideko ultimately realizes that [[NoDeadBodyPoops her body was in pristine condition as it hung]], and [[SubvertedTrope Kouzuki says that he actually killed her when she tried to escape.]]]]
136	** Hideko keeps a length of rope in her room for her own eventual suicide, to emulate her aunt. [[spoiler:She does tie the knot and jump when the guilt over her plan to betray Sook-hee grows too much, [[SubvertedTrope but Sook-hee catches her and confesses her own plan.]]]]
137	* ''Film/TheHappening'': [[spoiler:Plants start secreting chemicals which drive people to suicide.]]
138	* In ''Film/HardCoreLogo'' after the disastrous final show [[spoiler:where Joe Dick beats the hell out of Billy Tallent on stage, Joe goes out back to the alley and while he is talking to director [=Bruce McDonald=] he raises his glass with one hand, and then pulls a gun out of his coat and shoots himself in the head]].
139	* ''Film/HarrisonBergeron'': Harrison (after being forced to claim his broadcast was just a hoax) pulls out a gun, shooting himself on live TV (claiming beforehand this is also fake).
140	* This is played for laughs in the 1971 Hal Ashby film ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'', where the death-obsessed protagonist stages elaborate faux-suicides out of boredom. Until [[spoiler:his friend Maude really ([[SuicideIsPainless and cheerfully]]) commits SuicideByPills on [[DiedOnTheirBirthday her 80th birthday]], believing 80 is the right age and that she's lived a long, full life.]]
141	* ''Film/HigherLearning'': [[spoiler: Remy]] near the end.
142	* In ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'', Fred, the man who runs the gas station, blows his head off with a shotgun after he can no longer stomach helping the mutants to lure victims into ambushes.
143	* In ''Film/TheHoodlum'': Rosa jumps off the roof after she discovers she is pregnant and Vincent refuses to marry her and move away.
144	* In ''Film/HotSpur'', Carlo's sister committed suicide because she could not bear the shame of being raped. Following [[EverybodyDiesEnding the bloodbath at the end of the film]], SoleSurvivor Susan kills herself.
145	* At the end of ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' [[spoiler:Lou confesses that he ''was'' trying to kill himself at the start of the film]].
146	* In ''Film/TheHousemaid2010'', Eun-yi is driven to suicide, hanging herself and then setting herself on fire in protest of the family poisoning her and forcing her to get an abortion.
147	%%* Al B in ''Film/HouseOf9''.
148	* ''Film/{{Husk}}'': Corey Comstock AteHisGun after murdering his brother Alex and turning his body into a ScaryScarecrow.
149	* Sarah Packard in ''Film/TheHustler1961'' kills herself after she's been rejected by Eddie Felson and shamed into sleeping with ManipulativeBastard Bert Gordon all in a few hours.
150	* ''Film/IKnewHerWell'' had Adriana jumping off of her balcony at the end of the film.
151	* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', [[spoiler: after living through so many layers of dreams, Dom's wife Mal believed that reality was also a dream and jumped off a building to "kick" herself back to reality.]]
152	* ''Film/InTheFade'': Katja attempts suicide initially in despair over her husband and son dying without justice, after the killers aren't caught. She stops herself after they do arrest them. [[spoiler:However, after they're acquitted, she again decides to kill herself-along with the murderers. With a bomb she made, Katja does so.]]
153	* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': In the film's opening scene, an elegant woman hangs herself with razor wire. She's later revealed as having been Emmeline, Evie's white great-grandmother, who had killed herself to escape Deville.
154	* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': In the third film, Oscar relates that his daughter was spurred to kill herself over her rapist going free because the physical evidence against him went missing, and his lawyers having smeared her as a [[SlutShaming slut]] who was "asking for it".
155	* George Bailey in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': Every golden opportunity is frustrated by his self-imposed duties, until one Christmas Eve, when Potter seizes an opportunity to steal $8,000 from the Bailey Building & Loan, then threatens to charge George with the theft. He is saved by his guardian angel as he contemplates jumping off a bridge. Ironically, he ends up [[spoiler:jumping off the bridge anyway to save said guardian angel]].
156	* The entire plot of the 1996 film ''It's My Party'' is based on this very premise. Nick Stark, who is dying of AIDS, decides to throw himself a grand farewell party and invites all of his friends and family to say goodbye, as he intends to kill himself at the end of the party weekend by taking an overdose of pills.
157	* ''Film/JackAndDiane'': Jack's brother shot himself in the past due to his girlfriend leaving him. She's still traumatized by it and mourns him, with a {{tragic keepsake}} of his (a tape that he gave to his girlfriend) in her possession.
158	* ''Film/JasonsLyric'': The {{Jerkass}} younger brother, Joshua, is used to always rely on his older brother, Jason, in almost everything (including in avoiding the consequences of his wrongdoings) that he grows jealous when finding out Jason would move away with [[LoveInterest Lyric.]] So much so that he ends up shooting himself upon watching his dear older brother, Jason, ''could'' eventually walk away from him for good (after putting up with him for so many years) and chooses to rather save his girlfriend after he (accidentally) shot her.
159	* ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'': Subverted. After a dispiriting conversation with his daughter, Juan stands for a long moment on the edge of a tall building before jumping down [[spoiler:to a balcony below, so he can sneak into a married woman's apartment and have sex with her.]]
160	* ''Film/KickAss'': Mindy's mom, while pregnant and alone with her husband in prison, fell into a deep depression. So she overdosed on pills, though the doctors saved Mindy.
161	* In ''Film/TheKillerThatStalkedNewYork'', Francie kills herself after being confronted by her sister Sheila about [[AFamilyAffair her affair with Sheila's husband Matt]].
162	* Towards the end of ''Film/TheKingAndTheClown'' [[spoiler:when Jaeng-sang is blinded Gong-gil is DrivenToSuicide. But is [[InterruptedSuicide interrupted]]. But then they both [[TogetherInDeath commit suicide]] upon his recovery. [[TearJerker It's that kind of film]].]]
163	* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'': Balian's wife hung herself out of grief at their child being stillborn.
164	* In ''Film/LadyNinjaKaede'', Koharu hangs herself out of shame after she is raped.
165	* In ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' Junior blows his brains out, as commanded by Krug.
166	* In ''Film/LemonTreePassage'', when confronted with his part in the rape and murder, [[spoiler:Sam]] kills himself; seemingly destroying the ghost in the process.
167	* ''Film/LethalWeapon1987'': Self-destructive cop Riggs is distraught over the death of his wife. At one point, Riggs nearly [[AteHisGun eats his gun]], and tells Murtaugh that every morning when he wakes up, he makes a decision whether to off himself or not.
168	* ''Film/ListenToYourHeart'': Danny kills himself because he doesn't want Roger to watch him die, which he did with his mother. He was dying of cancer already.
169	* In ''Film/LostAndDelirious'', Paulie [[spoiler:jumps off the school roof after Tori rejects her.]]
170	* ''Film/LostInAlaska'': Joe [=McDermott=] ''tries'', repeatedly, after his girlfriend dumps him. He ultimately gets persuaded not to.
171	* At the end of ''Film/MadchenInUniform'' [[spoiler:Manuela]] tries to jump from the main staircase of her boarding school after [[spoiler:she is banned from talking to her teacher, [[PrecociousCrush who she has a crush on]]]]. She's [[InterruptedSuicide saved by her schoolmates]] and the movie ends with the headmistress silently walking down the hall afterwards.
172	* ''Mannen som elsket Yngve'' (The Man Who Loved Yngve): Jarle's sudden attack at a party, caused by internalised homophobia and the stress of being in love with two people at the same time, one of them secretly, combines with [[spoiler: underlying mental health problems]] to send [[spoiler: Yngve]] jumping off a bridge. [[spoiler: He survives, but ends up in mental hospital.]]
173	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
174	** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', it appears that suicide by collapsing wormhole is [[spoiler: [[AntiVillain Loki]]]]'s response to the realization that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father]] would never condone his actions, and indeed he is assumed dead by his family and the rest of Asgard. [[spoiler: Subverted [[ChekhovsSkill with precedent]], however, in TheStinger, when he is shown to be alive and well and close to grabbing the Tessaract.]]
175	** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'':
176	*** [[spoiler: Bruce]] reveals that they once tried to attempt suicide but [[spoiler:the Hulk took control and "spat the bullet out"]]
177	*** Subverted with [[spoiler: Selvig]] who had been [[spoiler: mind-controlled by Loki for most of the film]]. When Natasha found him after [[spoiler: he was back to normal]], he was looking over the edge of [[spoiler: Stark Tower]] as if he wanted to jump, to which she quickly tried to talk him down. But it turned out he wasn't looking at the ground but at [[spoiler: Loki's scepter a few floors down which was the key to closing the alien portal]].
178	** Subverted with [[spoiler:Zemo]] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. [[spoiler: After successfully turning the Avengers against each other as revenge for the collateral damage that killed his family, Zemo prepares to be killed by T'Challa/Black Panther. However, T'Challa decides not to kill Zemo for revenge for the death of his father at the U.N. bombing which framed Bucky, due to him realizing that it will continue to perpetuate his CycleOfRevenge, so Zemo decides to put a bullet in his head. Unfortunately for him, T'Challa stops him just in time and has him sent to prison to face justice for his crimes]].
179	** In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', [[spoiler:Ikaris is wracked with guilt over his actions and unable to reconcile his UndyingLoyalty for Arishem and love for Sersi, and he commits suicide by flying at the sun.]]
180	* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', after Mr. Banks is [[spoiler:fired from his job]] and has disappeared, one of his domestic staff speculates he's thrown himself into the Thames. When he then reappears alive...
181	--> '''Mrs. Banks:''' Oh, George, you didn't jump into the river! How sensible of you!
182	--> '''Constable Jones:''' ''(on the phone)'' It's alright, sir; he's been found. ''(beat)'' No, alive.
183	* 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.]]
184	* ''Film/TheMenu''
185	** Chef Slowik [[BreakThemByTalking convinces Jeremy that no matter how hard he works or how good he gets]], [[AlwaysSecondBest he will never rise to his own level]], prompting him to [[AteHisGun put a gun in his mouth]] to complete the fourth course.
186	** 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.
187	** Despite having just prepared the only course that he truly enjoyed preparing, Chef Slowik still goes through with his own suicidal agenda, bringing everyone except Margo with him.
188	* ''Film/{{MFA}}'': Upon discovering that her friend Noelle is the 'Campus Killer', Skye cannot cope with the revelation and slits her wrists. She leaves behind a suicide note [[FalseConfession claiming to be the 'Campus Killer']] in an attempt to clear Noelle's name. Noelle is devastated by this.
189	* ''Film/LesMiserables1995'': In the prologue, Henri's mother killed herself after learning that his father had died during a failed prison escape.
190	* ''Film/MisfitHeights'': One puppet is seen preparing a noose to hang himself.
191	* Having become a DeathSeeker by the time the events of ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' occur, Lane's main goal after escaping custody is to kill himself in the nuclear blast at Kashmir but not before [[TakingYouWithMe taking as much as Ethan's friends with him]] as well as to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled avoid answering for his crimes]].
192	* ''Film/MonstersBall'': Sonny fatally shoots himself through the heart after a confrontation with his father Hank.
193	* In ''A Murderer And His Child'', the VillainProtagonist is an otherwise decent man who, once every 6 months or so, gets an irresistible urge to rape and murder a preteen girl. Then he marries a women who has a 9-year-old daughter. When he notices that he starts imagining killing that girl (who by then has completely opened up to him and would be an easy victim), he kills himself.
194	* ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'': It's {{implied}} that Young killed himself to escape solitary, with a note found saying that he was now free.
195	* ''Film/TheMurderMan'': The woman who calls Halford at the beginning, who got dumped and lost all her money, drowns herself in the bay.
196	%%* Ece in ''Film/{{Mustang}}''.
197	* Jordy in ''Film/MysteryTeam'' mentioned that he planned on working at the convenience store until this happened. The fact that he's still alive is his idea of happiness.
198	* ''{{Film/Mythica}}'': Dagen's mother hung herself when he was a little boy, to escape {{sex slave}}ry.
199	* The Harold Lloyd film ''Film/NeverWeaken'' revolves entirely around his multiple suicide attempts after being jilted. Since they all play out in Lloyd's typical "thrill comedy" style, and we know there's no way he'll actually succeed, it's okay to laugh.
200	* ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': In the prime timeline Gabby was so devastated after miscarrying that she killed herself by walking in front of a car.
201	* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Amanda Krueger killed herself after seeing news reports of how the rape-conceived son she'd given up for adoption had been arrested for murdering children.
202	* ''Film/NightTrainToLisbon'': Catarina tried to kill herself when she found out her beloved grandfather used to be a brutal secret policeman under the Salazar regime in Portugal known as "the Butcher of Lisbon". Stefania's father also killed himself to escape the pain of his illness, though it was called an accident given the stigma on suicide.
203	* In ''Film/NoKidding'', Vanilla tells Catherine that her mother jumped out of a window after the death of her father and that she wished she had taken her with her. However, like all of Vanilla's tales, this was all a lie.
204	* In ''Film/NoneShallEscape'', Anna drowns herself after letting slip to Marja who it was that raped her.
205	* ''Film/Oldboy2003'': [[spoiler:Woo-jin wanted to die ever since the loss of Soo-ah, but the only thing keeping him alive was a desire to exact revenge. Once he finished this and was able to revel in the suffering he inflicted to Dae-su, he saw no reason to keep living, and shot himself in the head. Dae-su also begs Woo-jin to kill him when he realizes he's [[ParentalIncest fucked]] his own daughter.]]
206	* Occurs in ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' when Sid Worley drops out of the Navy Aviator program to marry his pregnant girlfriend. After [[spoiler:she reveals the pregnancy was faked and she only want to marry an airman]], he hangs himself in a motel shower stall.
207	* ''Film/ParanormalAsylum'': When Mark returns to George Sheffield's apartment, he sees him standing on the railing of his balcony. George says something to him, then walks off it, falling to his death.
208	* In ''Film/ThePatriot2000'', 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.
209	* In ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' (''The Skin I Live In'') Dr. Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps. Later on, Vera (more woman than man now) tries to kill herself by slicing her throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing her any edged or bladed items. In present time, Vera half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from her books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, she would have cut her throat instead of her chest.
210	* In ''Film/{{Pihu}}'', Pooja leaves a scrawled note that she's committing suicide to escape her unhappy marriage.
211	* ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'': In Jo's book, ''Naked Revolt'', Blanche briefly considers drowning herself in the lake after learning of Roger's affair with Stella.
212	* ''Film/PrayersForBobby'': [[spoiler: Bobby Griffith]] jumps off an overpass after being rejected by his mother for being gay.
213	* In ''Film/TheQuietEarth'', most of the world's population has disappeared thanks to a mysterious experiment, and one person who felt responsible for the disaster chose suicide over living with the guilt. [[spoiler: The twist here is that the man who committed suicide is [[TheAloner the main character]], and he survives to [[AFateWorseThanDeath wander in an empty world]], [[GoMadFromTheIsolation consumed by guilt and loneliness]], because he ''succeeded'' at killing himself at the exact moment that the world ended.]]
214	* In ''Film/TheRaid'', [[spoiler: Lieutenant Wahyu tries to]] shoot himself after [[spoiler: shooting Tama]], believing that there was no point to the operation after all and not wanting to be turned in to the police. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: his revolver had run out of bullets.]]
215	* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'': When Mervyn is at risk of losing his scholarship unless he raises £500 in a fortnight:
216	-->'''Jill''': There's an obvious way out.
217	-->'''Mervyn''': There are ''three'' obvious ways, ''actually''. I could hang myself, shoot myself, or throw myself in the river.
218	* In ''Film/RatsNightOfTerror'', Diana slashes her wrists during her HeroicBSOD after being attacked by rats.
219	* Near the end of ''Film/ReeferMadness'' [[spoiler:Blanche]] jumps out of a window. This was actually enforced by UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode. One of their rules was that wrongdoers needed to punished.
220	* ''Film/ReformSchoolGirls'': After the murder of her kitten drives her over the DespairEventHorizon, Lisa goes to the tower in the center of the compound, climbs up, and falls to her death.
221	* Towards the end of ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', [[spoiler:Frank, a genuinely nice guy who doesn't want to hurt anybody, has become a zombie and must now sustain himself with live brains. When Freddy reanimates, Frank runs out of the chapel and, the next time we see him, [[DyingAsYourself immolates himself in the retort]]]].
222	* In ''Film/RoboCop2'', two of Murphy's would-be replacements commit suicide because they couldn't bear to live as cyborgs.
223	* ''Film/RomeoMustDie'': After Han confronts his father about Po's murder, the latter admits he's the one responsible. When Han leaves rather than kill him, his father shoots himself.
224	* In ''Film/ARoomInTown'', Edmond kills himself when Edith makes clear her intent to leave him, and [[spoiler:Edith herself dies by suicide when Francois is fatally wounded]].
225	* In ''Film/TheRoom2003'', 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]].
226	* ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': [[spoiler:Sappho]] kills herself in the finale when [[spoiler:Helene]] ends their affair.
227	* In ''Film/SawII'', John Kramer tried to kill himself. [[SubvertedTrope He lived, though. It gives John an epiphany.]]
228	* Helena, the main villain in ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover''. When the [[PsychoSerum Ephemerol 3]] no longer affects her psyche and she's confronted with her actions, she kills herself by electrocution.
229	* In ''Film/TheScribbler'', a high-rise halfway house for mental patients suffers a plague of jumper suicides. Subverted in that the main character, who suffers from SplitPersonality syndrome, thinks one of her alternate personalities is killing the patients. [[spoiler:Doubly subverted in that ''another'' patient is the actual murderer.]]
230	* Subverted in ''Film/SecretHonor''. Nixon, at the apex of his VillainousBreakdown, puts a gun to his head and contemplates pulling the trigger, but decides to keep living [[ThePowerOfHate out of sheer spite.]]
231	--> '''Nixon:''' They flushed me down the toilet. They wanted me to ''kill'' myself. Well, I won't do it. If they want me dead, ''they'll have to do it.''
232	* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'':
233	** Though she doesn't actually carry it out, [[TheWoobie River]] is shown putting a gun to her head while in the middle of her absolute rock-bottom mental breakdown, complete with her begging Simon to [[MercyKill put a bullet in her]], because she is terrified of what [[KnightTemplar the Operative]] will do to the rest of the crew to get to her.
234	-->'''River''': Put a bullet to me... Bullet in the brainpan, squish.
235	** It is implied that the Operative was DrivenToSuicide after [[spoiler: seeing the effects of the Pax.]]
236	-->'''The Operative''': There is nothing left to see.
237	*** It turns out he wasnt though, as Zoe gets her revenge in the comics.
238	* The Creator/MichaelHaneke film ''The Seventh Continent'' is a very realistic portrayal of suicide, and largely focuses on the emptiness of the central family's life.
239	* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
240	** The elderly inmate [[spoiler:Brooks]], after being in prison for more than 50 years, is finally let out. Unfortunately, the world outside of the prison is too much for the old man to handle after being locked away for so long, so he hangs himself in his bedroom.
241	** At the film's climax,[[spoiler: Warden Norton]], realizing he could potentially spend the rest of his life in his own prison for illicit money-handling and ordering an inmate murdered, [[AteHisGun eats his gun]].
242	* ''Film/SheHateMe'': Schiller jumps out of a window to his death in the very first scene.
243	* Subverted towards the end of ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' [[spoiler: Dr. Watson and Mary were getting ready to leave and Dr. Watson had to see Sherlock. He reassured Mary that Sherlock had no problem with him leaving to marry her. They entered Sherlock's room to see that he had hung himself. Dr. Watson knew that Sherlock would never kill himself and woke him up by poking him with his cane. It turns out that he was just testing out how Blackwood managed to survive being hung in the first place. He ended up getting stuck.]]
244	* ''Film/AShockToTheSystem'': George kills himself with the downers Graham left behind out of depression after he's forced into retirement.
245	* In the Czech film ''Film/TheShopOnMainStreet'', after accidentally killing the elderly woman whose shop he'd been managing, the main character hangs himself.
246	* ''Film/ShutterIsland'' has a slight variation; [[spoiler:at the end of the film, a "cured" Andrew Laeddis fakes relapsing into his delusion so that the doctors will lobotomize him. This is essentially a suicide without death, as it will destroy his memories and personality, and he chooses it over living with his guilt about the fate of his wife and children.]]
247	* ''Film/TheSisterhoodOfNight'': [[spoiler: Lavinia]] deliberately overdoses with pills after she's publicly forced to confess that the Sisterhood practices witchcraft and humiliated.
248	* In both the play and the movie of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', [[spoiler: Rick kills himself after realizing [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone how much he's screwed up in letting]] ConMan [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Paul spend all of his and Elizabeth's savings]]. Near the end, it's implied Paul may have killed himself in prison, though we don't know for sure]].
249	* ''Film/TheSkeletonTwins'' is about a brother and sister pair that both come together after they both attempt suicide. [[spoiler:Their father was said to have jumped off a bridge years earlier.]]
250	* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': JR's cellmate kills himself to escape being [[PrisonRape raped in prison regularly]].
251	* In ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', Gracchus and [[BigBad Crassus]] are mortal enemies in the Roman Senate. When Gracchus sees that Crassus has destroyed Spartacus's slave army, after having used it as a tool to destabilize Crassus's power base, he hires someone to free Spartacus's wife Varinia and then releases both her and her newborn son from slavery. To keep Crassus from striking back at him, he commits suicide, thereby securing the last laugh.
252	* Timan in ''Film/{{Stag}}''. Early in the film, Pete discovers that Timan has a secret gay lover and quite publically threatens to blackmail him over this. Later, the realisation that he is unlikely to be able to extract himself from the situation without either going to prison or helping to cover up a major crime (or, in extremis, becoming an accessory to murder), combined with the fact that even if he does somehow escape with life, family, career and reputation intact, he will still be under Pete's thumb, drives him to [[SuicideBySea drown himself in Victor's swimming pool]].
253	* In ''Film/StageDoor'', [[spoiler: Kaye kills herself because the part she had so desperately wanted was taken by someone else.]]
254	* A judge early on in ''Film/TheStarChamber'' shoots himself in the restroom after a banquet in his honor, presumably out of guilt over his involvement with the titular secret vigilante court of judges who condemn murderers who got OffOnATechnicality to death via hitman.
255	* ''A Star Is Born'': Both versions ([[Film/AStarIsBorn1937 1937]] and [[Film/AStarIsBorn1954 1954]]) are famous for this occurring. The SuicideBySea scene is often referenced. Norman Maine is an actor in the early 20th century who falls for an up-and-coming actress named Esther. As time goes on his wife becomes more popular than him and his career starts dying. After a downward spiral of alcoholism and depression he kills himself near the end.
256	** ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018'' - Jackson Maine is a rock star who launches his love interest, Ally, to pop stardom. Ally's music gradually diverges from the work that originally drew Jackson towards her. She goes mainstream, gains increasing commercial success, and in Jackson's view-- sells out. Ally's very business-minded manager delivers the straw that breaks the camel's back-- reprimanding his behavior, and encouraging more distance between him and Ally. A few scenes later, Jackson's hung himself in his garage.
257	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
258	** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Captain Clark Terrell finds himself unwilling to kill Admiral Kirk despite Khan's insistence that he does so and the pain from the [[PuppeteerParasite Ceti Alphan Eel]] Khan put in Terrell becoming intolerable. Throwing his wrist communicator aside Terrell turns his phaser on himself.
259	* ''Film/TheStationOfTheCross'': Maria is so burdened by her constant guilt over sin, her hatred for her body, and her mother's scathing criticisms that the only good thing she feels she can do is sacrifice her life to God, or in plainer words, kill herself. Despite talking about sacrificing herself to her priest, he can only say that God would like more people on Earth to help convert more people, with no attempt to understand or address Maria's emotional trouble.
260	* ''Film/StellaMaris'':
261	** In the 1918 film ''Film/StellaMaris'', [[TheHeroDies the protagonist]] kills herself after killing another woman. Most people think it was because [[AbusiveParents Louise abused Unity when she adopted her]], however Unity really [[HeroicSuicide killed herself]] to protect her friends from Louise.
262	** There's an off-hand note that a woman opted to kill herself and her child in order to avoid starvation. This is one of the many things that shocks Stella Maris about how dark the world can be.
263	** Stella has some implications of being suicidal after she becomes well-aware of what is beyond her GildedCage.
264	* ''Film/StonehearstAsylum'': A man kills himself after escaping from Stonehearst. Lamb also attempted this in the past, but failed to because he ran out of bullets.
265	* Percival in ''Film/TheSuicideTheory'' is depressed and suicidal after his lover, Christopher is murdered. He keeps surviving his numerous attempts to kill himself, so he hires a hit man named Steve to do the job for him.
266	* ''Film/TheSunsetLimited:'' It begins with a main character ready and eager to off himself. He tried to jump in front of a train, but another man prevented it, then spends the rest of the film talking with him about this and some other things. [[spoiler: He leaves do it in the end.]]
267	* Happens on several occasions in the movie ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' (2007), which takes place on a spaceship trying to avert the end of the world by re-igniting the Sun. [[spoiler:Trey cuts his wrists when he makes an elementary mistake (forgetting to realign the heat shield) that causes the death of several crewmembers. The ship's psychiatrist Searle follows the example of the crew of Icarus II and fully opens the observation portal to the Sun, incinerating himself rather than facing a slow death from asphyxiation.]]
268	* ''Film/SunshineCleaning'':
269	** Early on, a man goes into a gun store and acts like he's going to buy a shotgun. After they get one out, the guy surreptitiously puts a shell in he brought, then kills himself with it.
270	** [[spoiler: When cleaning up after an elderly man's suicide, Rose and Norah are troubled by memories of their own mother's suicide]].
271	* In the 1968 {{mondo}} film ''Film/SwedenHeavenAndHell'', much is made about the titular nation's supposedly high suicide rate. To illustrate this, a young woman is shown jumping to her death in one of the film's "found footage" moments.
272	* ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'': Near the end of the film, [[BigBad Mr. Blue]] electrocutes himself on the third rail when he learns that New York doesn't execute people.
273	-->'''Mr. Blue''': Excuse me, do you still execute in this state?
274	-->'''Lieutenant Garber''': What? Oh, execute; no, not at the moment.
275	-->'''Mr. Blue''': Pity. ''[deliberately touches third rail]''
276	* ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'': After a sustained campaign of psychological warfare from the Elliots aimed at driving him out of his home, Grimsdyke hangs himself.
277	* The protagonist in ''Film/TheTenant'' feels [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighted]] by his neighbors up to the point where he can't take it anymore and jumps from his window. He ends up as a BandageMummy in hospital.
278	* In the end of ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' John and Katherine, armed with an already ticking C4 bomb, discover the "system core" they were sent to destroy to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt was actually just a fallout shelter for them to survive in while the world is obliterated by nukes. Katherine suggests just letting the bomb go off anyways and John considers it... until all the other survivors start hailing the shelter on the radios and they instead realize [[LastBastion humanity needs them]].
279	* ''Film/TheTerror'': [[spoiler:Katrina]]'s ultimate plan is to drive the Baron to suicide to [[spoiler:avenge her son's death]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:she succeeds]].
280	* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' Max Walker confronts a time criminal messing with Wall Street during the black Thursday of '29. To keep the bad guy from harming his family the criminal decides to take his own life instead and jumps out of a window. Max Walker follows and saves him by jumping back to his time period. He is then sentenced to death for his time meddling. Great, well, the execution is applied by sending him back to the point where he was saved, thus joining all the brokers who committed suicide during the great crash.
281	* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'':
282	** At the end, we learn that [[spoiler: [[DisposableFiance Cal]] apparently shot himself]] after losing everything in the [[TheGreatDepression Great Depression]].
283	** Also during the sinking of the ship, a crewman, historically speculated to be First Officer William Murdoch, shoots himself, presumably to avoid death by hypothermia.
284	* The 1922 classic ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'' ends with the protagonist killing herself. After her American husband left her for his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]], Lotus Blossom [[spoiler:gives their son to them]] then throws herself off a cliff into the sea.
285	* In ''Film/TowerBlock'', [[spoiler:Jenny survives the sniper's initial assault but [[DeathOfAChild her young children are killed]].]] Some time afterwards, she decides she can't go on, and deliberately walks into the sniper's line of fire.
286	* ''Film/TrapForCinderella'': Do's father had shot himself as a result of [[spoiler:Micky and Do discovering he was having an affair with Elinor]].
287	* ''Film/TroubleForTwo'' is a 1936 film about a prince who joins a suicide club. In order to avoid embarrassing their families due to their suicide, the people are killed by others instead of themselves.
288	* ''Film/TruthOrDare2012'': After being humiliated at the end of term party, Felix receives a postcard reminding him of his humiliation a few months later, and hangs himself. His brother Justin sets out to determine who sent the postcard.
289	* ''Film/TunesOfGlory'': Colonel Barrow spends the entire film trying to wrest control of his battalion away from Colonel Sinclair. Left with only two allies, one of them coldly tells Barrow that the impression among the officers is that Sinclair has really been in charge all along. Barrow shoots himself with a pistol shortly afterward.
290	* In ''Twelve and Holding'', Jeff, one of the boys who accidentally killed Rudy, kills himself while in juvie.
291	* ''Film/TwiceToldTales'': In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Giovanni consumes the antidote in front of Beatrice, but it kills him. Beatrice then drinks it also, killing herself. On seeing Beatrice die, Giacomo grabs the exotic plant with both hands and its touch kills him.
292	* One night in ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'', John breaks down in tears to Nurse Catty telling her to give him a pill so he'll never wake up again, believing himself to be more of use to his family dead now that he isn't earning any money for them. Luckily, Nurse Catty talks him out of thinking like this.
293	* In ''Film/TheTwoFacesOfDrJekyll'', after Paul Allen's death, Kitty steps off a balcony and crashes through a glass roof onto the party guests.
294	* ''Film/UnderThePiano'' opens with Rosetta downing a bottle of ammonia. Most of the rest of the movie is told in flashback, showing how she got to that point.
295	* ''Film/UnderworldUSA'': When DirtyCop Police Chief Fowler is indicted for corruption, Driscoll attempts to get him to take a deal to testify against the TheSyndicate. Fowler says that his family will never be safe so long as he is alive, draws his gun, and blows his brains out.
296	* ''Film/TheUntoldStory'': [[BigBad Wong Chi Hang]] [[spoiler: kills himself to avoid his own death sentence]] while in jail.
297	* ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'': In a final, desperate attempt to keep [[spoiler:STEM from killing Cortez, Grey]] aims the gun he's holding at his head. [[spoiler:STEM itself decides to trap Grey's mind in a LotusEaterMachine to prevent him from doing this.]]
298	* Alice from ''Literature/UpTheDownStaircase'' has a crush on a teacher of hers. When she gives him a love letter [[GrammarCorrectionGag he just fixes her grammar]]. It upsets her so much that she jumps out of a school window, though she survives.
299	* In ''Film/VampireDiary'': Hazel slits her wrists after learning that Vicki is going to have a vampire baby, killing herself so Vicki can feed on her blood.
300	* ''Film/VampiresKiss'': Peter, in despair over thinking he's a vampire, tries to kill himself. It doesn't work however.
301	* In Creator/JessFranco's ''Film/{{Venus In Furs\|Franco}}'', one of the revenge-killings is accomplished by inducing the person to commit BathSuicide.
302	* ''Film/TheVindicator'': As one last "fuck you" to [[{{Cyborg}} Carl]] after trying to make him kill his own pregnant wife who she was also torturing, once Carl has her cornered, Hunter shoots herself in the head.
303	* ''Film/VirusShark'': Kristi, upon learning that humanity is now just 130 people, feels that it's too late to save them. So she throws the cure for [[TheVirus [=SHVID=]-1]] into the sea, and then jumps into it herself.
304	* ''Film/TheVoices'': Jerry's mother tried to kill herself in the past rather than be put in a mental institution (Jerry finished her off at her request). Near the end, [[spoiler:a distraught Jerry gives up and lets himself die in a fire rather than harm anyone else]].
305	* ''Film/TheVoyeurs'':
306	** Julia appears to slit her wrists after discovering Sebastian's been cheating on her. It turns out to be faked though.
307	** Thomas hangs himself on seeing Pippa having sex with Sebastian, though she later suspects this was also faked, with it being murder, and it's strongly implied she's right.
308	* Jonas in ''Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones'' jumps off a roof after ratting on his sadistic accomplices, expecting that they would find out do the same things to him that they did to the victims they tortured and killed.
309	* Patchi from ''Film/WalkingWithDinosaurs: The Movie'' goes into a HeroicBSOD after he loses his fight with Scowler and gets kicked out of the herd. He was still pinned under the tree, and when scavengers come to eat him, Patchi lets them attack, believing he was foolish to win Juniper back and confront Scowler. Alex has to tell him to not die in vain...and if he was going to die, he could die fighting for something worth fighting for.
310	* The Colonel in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'' 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.
311	* In ''Film/WatchYourStern'', Captain Foster considers this after being told by Admiral Pettigrew that Miss Potter is on her way to look at the Creeper torpedo plans, which will reveal that the plans were actually destroyed:
312	-->'''Captain Foster''': Get me my sword, Bill. I'm about to commit hara-kiri.
313	* It's implied that Anna was trying to kill herself in the 1920 film ''Film/WayDownEast''. Cast out into a blizzard, she runs towards the river... and falls down faint before she can jump in.
314	* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Charlotte kills herself after her elderly daughter dies, with signs she was depressed even before at her life as a vampire.
315	* ''Film/WhenAWomanAscendsTheStairs'': Early on in the movie, a hostess at the Bluebird bar has committed suicide, though why is unclear - some of her colleagues say it was because of lack of money, others say it was because of a man. [[spoiler:This is {{Foreshadowing}} for Yuri's suicide later in the movie]].
316	* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', one student is so stressed by the pressure of exams that he kills himself by sticking two sharpened pencils up his nose and slamming his head into the desk: driving the pencils into his brain.
317	* ''Film/WhiteFawnsDevotion'': White Fawn pulls out a knife and kills herself as Combs prepares to leave—or at least it looks like she does.
318	* ''Film/TheWidow2020'': [[spoiler:Zoya, after telling Vika that she's passing her burden on to her]], has Vika shoot [[spoiler:her]] in the head with a FlareGun.
319	* ''Film/{{Wolves}}'': Lucinda Tollerman, Cayden's mother. Raped and impregnated by Connor Slaughter, she was thrown out by her parents, spent her pregnancy hiding at her great uncle John's house, gave up her baby for adoption and then killed herself. Or, in Connor's version, it was being separated from the man she loved and having to give up their baby that did it. It's not clear which is correct.
320	* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'':
321	** Kanako's first boyfriend Ogata commits suicide after a long term of being bullied by the Matsunaga gang.
322	** DirtyCop Aikawa tries to commit suicide but fails, but is shot by [[spoiler:fellow cop Asai]] immediately afterwards, who claims that Aikawa commited suicide.
323	** The narrator contemplates suicide but changes his mind after Kanako interferes. It does not turn out well for him.
324	* In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' [[spoiler:Gary King]] tried to commit suicide some time before the events of the film due to disillusionment with how his life turned out to be.
325	* The entire premise of ''Film/WristcuttersALoveStory''. The only characters who didn't kill themselves are Kneller, who is one of the PowersThatBe and [=McCall=] who accidentally overdosed.
326	* ''Film/AYearAndChange'': After being confronted about being complicit in a rape case involving underage girls, [[spoiler: Kenny eventually kills himself when it is looking likely he will end up in prison.]]
327	* In ''Film/TheYoungPoisonersHandbook'', Berridge hangs himself with a bedsheet in the cell he shares with Graham after being driven to suicide by his guilt over his actions and (most likely) the stress of Graham waking him every hour to ask about his dreams (ItMakesSenseInContext). [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Graham kills himself in his prison cell using the antimony 'Newton's Diamond' he had concealed in his ring.]]
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