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Times where somebody is Driven to Suicide in Films.


Animation:

  • In Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, 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 Batman vs. Two-Face.
  • In Beowulf (2007), the King in the story kills himself after Beowulf has succeeded in killing his bastard son he conceived with a monster. Beowulf, however, is by some standards Too Dumb to Live, seeing what the King's fooling around did, but nonetheless strikes a bargain with the monster and gives her another baby. Being also too proud to kill himself, he dies in a redeeming Heroic Sacrifice.
  • In The Book of Life, Manolo's death at Xibalba's hands has undertones of this. Believing himself to be responsible for Maria's demise, he asks to see her again despite knowing what it entails.
  • You could make a drinking game out of all the references to suicide in The Brave Little Toaster. Within the first few minutes, the Air Conditioner violently self-destructs. Main characters routinely throw themselves off of cliffs, deliberately onto high places during a heavy thunderstorm, and into certain death. (Although they were all for heroic purposes.) There's 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 '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, it was a 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.
  • Charlotte (2021): 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.
  • In a particularly tense scene in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society, 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 committing suicide instead. Fortunately, the Major has been tracking Togusa the whole time and is able to save him.
  • In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, If you thought it looked like Zira smiled during her fall it's because she did. It was originally a suicide but that did not officially make it past the storyboards, because it was considered too dark. Despite this she still looks way too happy to have accidentally fell to her death.

Live-Action:

  • Several people who stayed in room 1408 were driven to this. We also come to find out that this is true of everyone who died in the room. It doesn't actually kill people (though it can come close), but instead tortures them until they take the "express check-out service".
  • 2:37 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.
  • 28 Days Later. Appropriately enough, the Despair Event Horizon 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 the infected or end up insane and slaughtering their loved ones.
  • 3 Idiots:
    • Joy, a senior of the main trio during their freshmen years, hangs himself out of stress after his project is rejected by Virus.
    • Later, Raju jumps off a window due of unwilling to choose between betraying his friends or letting his family down. Fortunately he is saved.
  • Absolute Power (1997): Agent Burton kills himself out of guilt.
  • In 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.
  • In Advise & Consent, 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.
  • Played for Laughs in Airplane!. Three people commit suicide rather than listen to Ted Striker's reminiscing.
  • Airplane II: The Sequel: It's also Played for Laughs 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 life story.
  • About midway through Alps, Gymnast tries to hang herself because Matterhorn refuses to let her train to pop music, but Monte Rosa intervenes.
  • 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.
  • In April Showers, Jason is unable to cope with his Survivor Guilt after the school shooting, and kills himself.
  • In Armored, Palmer throws himself off the roof of the steel mill after suffering a Crisis of Faith when Ty points out far he has strayed from his religious beliefs.
  • In Asian School Girls, Suzie is unable to cope with the shame of being raped and kills herself by throwing herself off the roof of the school.
  • At the end of Bad Girls from Valley High, Danielle and Tiffany realise This Isn't Heaven as they are forced to forever endure the company of their school's most annoying dork, Jonathan Wharton, who is completely devoted to Danielle's every move. As such, he reveals that he committed suicide just to be with her forever.
  • In The Bad Sleep Well, Miura throws himself in front of a truck to protect his superiors from incrimination.
  • One of the last reveals in The Bank is that Jim's father committed suicide after Centabank foreclosed on the family farm. Young Jim found his father's body hanging in the shed.
  • Battle Royale:
    • Battle Royale begins with Shuya's father hanging himself before the events of the movie, and doesn't let up any time soon.
    • During the events of the BR program, many students kill themselves out of despair, fear, and to avoid murdering others; Kazuhiko and Sakura jump off a cliff together, Yoji and Yoshimi hang themselves with the former's rope, and Yuko throws herself from the lighthouse after accidentally poisoning Yuka (and, in extension, causing the rest of her friends to shoot each other out of the resulting paranoia).
    • Averted with Shinji, who attempts a Taking You with Me attack at Kiriyama after he murders his friends.
  • 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 failing at that too.
  • In Better Off Dead this was a major characteristic of the teenaged protagonist, who attempts suicide multiple times in many different ways. He's never successful.
  • The jumping point of Beyond the Lights. 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 interrupted by Office Kaz, who attempts to talk her away from the balcony ledge and then grabs Noni's arm after she decides to jump anyway.
  • Black Rat: 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 Saki stealing her boyfriend Ryota, drives Asuka to throw herself off the school roof while wearing the rat mask.
  • Black Wake: 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.
  • In Bloody Reunion, 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.
  • In the film The Breakfast Club the nerd Brian Johnson is so obsessed with his grades that when fails shop he tries to kill himself because he knows his parents will say he's ruined his chances fortunately he is unsuccessful because it was a flare gun that went off in his locker giving him detention.
  • Broken Blossoms ends with Chen stabbing himself after shooting Lucy's murderer, her father.
  • Tom in Brute Force (1947). Munsey tells him that his wife, the only person Tom cares about in the world, is divorcing him. Turns out, Munsey was just lying to get information out of Tom.
  • Burning Bright: Kelly and Tom's mother overdosed on pills at some point before the film began. However, John admits eventually that he killed her to keep her from leaving him and staged it as suicide.
  • At the end of Burnt by the Sun, Dmitri "Mitya" Arsentiev slits his wrists in the bathtub of his flat.
  • Cadaver (2020): Hans slits his own throat in front of Leonora and her husband Jacob. 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.
  • Minor character June from Caged hangs herself after being denied parole.
  • Cast Away: 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.
  • The original adaptation of The Children's Hour, called These Three, removed the suicide but the second version did not. After her Anguished Declaration of Love to Karen, Martha hangs herself due to gayngst combined with feeling her emotions ruined both her and Karen's lives.
  • Chloe: Chloe kills herself due to Catherine's rejection.
  • Christine (2016): 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.
  • Constantine (2005): John was driven to suicide at an early age because he saw demonically-possessed people, managed to get himself just dead enough to count as a successful suicide by Heaven's standards, and spent the rest of his life trying to earn a Get Out of Hell Free Card. He eventually gets it by killing himself again (and then Satan screws him by making him better). This is different from the comic book character's story and motivation.
  • In Coroner Creek, 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.
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (2002): Dantes's father killed himself in despair over his son's imprisonment. Later, when Villefort is being carted off to Chateau d'If, Dantes has a pistol left behind for him if he'd prefer the easy way out. He almost immediately does. It was unloaded, however, prompting Dantes to reveal he wouldn't let him off so easily.
  • The Criminal: When Pauly is caught with a Sinister Shiv (which might have been planted on him), he snaps and throws himself off the gallery. This is the event that triggers the Prison Riot.
  • The Crowd: Near the end, John is driven to jump off a bridge into the track of an oncoming train. He's lost 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 Happily Failed Suicide after he gets back on his feet and fixes his marriage.
  • In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, John Ambrose Fauntroy V is accused of having black ancestry. Since the CSA is a Crapsack World where anyone with such heritage is enslaved, he opts to shoot himself rather than risk it.
  • In The Cube, 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.
  • In Curse of the Undead, Drago Robles killed himself out of guilt over having murdered his brother. He would later rise as a vampire.
  • Subverted and played straight with Colonel Maguire in Cube 2: Hypercube. The first time around 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.
  • In Dad's Army (1971), 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.
  • Daft Punk's Electroma 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.
  • After going mad from the revelation, Walenski in Dark City (1998) announces that he's figured out a way out of the city, at which point he hurls himself in front of a train.
  • In The Dark Knight Rises, this is taken literally with Talia al Ghul, who crashes an armored truck and sustains mortal injuries in the process just to seal Gotham's fate (not that it ultimately works)..
  • In Dawn of the Dead (1978), 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 Executive Meddling 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 the remake of the movie Michael gets bitten and, after getting the other survivors away on a boat, shoots himself.
  • Dawning of the Dead: In the intro, after a terrorist releases The Virus, he puts a gun under his chin and then shoots himself.
    • Prof. Laborde shoots himself after showing off his bandaged arm.
  • Dead of Night: In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits suicide by water hazard after losing Mary to Parratt in a game of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.
  • Dead Poets Society: Neil realizes his father will never accept his vocation and shoots himself in the head. Neil's vocation is acting. Back then, a lot of people assumed that men in the theater were gay. We're not sure whether 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).
  • Deadtime Stories: Volume 2: 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. Later, her Vengeful Ghost drives Weaver to do exactly the same thing.
  • Suicide is a recurring subject in the avant-garde horror anthology film The Death King, with six of the seven segments exploring the topic in some way.
    • "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 Cyanide Pill in his bathtub.
    • "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.
    • 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.
    • "Thursday" contains a list of people who have committed suicide by jumping from a certain bridge.
    • In "Friday", a woman receives a chain letter urging her to kill herself, but thankfully ignores it, ripping it up and throwing it away.
    • In "Sunday", a clearly depressed man violently bashes his head against a nearby wall until he finally succumbs to brain damage.
  • Desert Heat only exists because Eddie Lomax wants to commit suicide but feels he needs the permission of an old friend first.
  • In Diary of the Dead 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.
  • Doctor... Series:
    • In Doctor at Sea, Jenkins tries to hang himself after he thinks that his wife has found another man.
    • In Doctor in Clover, Sir Lancelot considers shooting himself after discovering Matron has a crush on him.
  • Don Juan DeMarco: 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.
  • Don't Listen: At the end of the movie, 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.
  • In The Double, James drives both Hannah and Simon to suicide. The former is interrupted by the latter, and in his case, the whole suicide is really a ploy to kill James, and he doesn't intend to die himself. He did come genuinely close a couple of times, though.
  • The plot of Down and Out in Beverly Hills is kicked off by Jerry trying to drown himself in the Whitemans' pool.
  • Downfall (2004), set in the last days of the fighting in Berlin at the close of World War II, is essentially Driven to Suicide: The Movie, as scores of German soldiers and civilians (Adolf Hitler being naturally in their number) commit suicide by gun, cyanide pill and grenade. Truth in Television, of course; many hardcore Nazis chose to kill themselves over facing justice for their crimes or 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.
  • Downloading Nancy: The main character feels this way, so much that she hires someone to kill her over the internet.
  • Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype: 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.
  • In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973), realizing he can't be saved, Jekyll/Hyde lets himself fall through a glass roof to his death.
  • Dr. Terror's House of Horrors: After losing his arm (and therefore his career) in "Disembodied Hand", artist Eric Landor falls into deep despair and blows his brains out. Only 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.
  • The Drummer and the Keeper: Gabriel's mother had bipolar disorder, like he does. She committed suicide via paracetamol overdose. She lingered for four days.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jericho Cane in End of Days contemplates suicide every Christmas because his wife and daughter were killed while doing his job.
  • Exam: After being disqualified, White tries to fire the Guard's gun on himself. It doesn't work.
  • Female Agents: 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.
  • Femme Fatale (2002): 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. 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.
  • The Danish film Festen (The Celebration) centres on a family reunion in the aftermath of eldest daughter Linda's suicide, and the Awful Truth behind the act which comes to light during the proceedings.
  • The Field Guide to Evil: 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.
  • In Forty Guns, Logan hangs himself after he realizes that Jessica doesn't love him and that he has thrown away his career for nothing.
  • The film version of The Fountainhead departs from the novel by having Gail Wynand blow his brains out at the end.
  • Fracture (2007): Detective Nunally kills himself when Crawford gets acquitted.
  • In Frankenstein Created Woman, Christina is driven to suicide after her lover Hans is executed for a crime he didn't commit.
  • Germany, Year Zero: Edmund jumps off a building to his death after he poisons his sick father, presumably out of grief.
  • Ghost Note: No less than three examples:
    • In 1971, after listening to Eugene Burns play his guitar onstage, one man puts a gun to his head and blows his brains out.
    • After toughing Astaroth, the Hispanic exterminator returns to his place of business, and hangs himself.
    • When she senses that Eugene has been woken up, Ashley slits her own throat.
  • 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 having solved the math problem she'd worked on for most of her life, which her mother had caused further by controlling her life quite strictly, and became depressed as a result. She had previously attempted suicide before this as well.
  • Girlfight: According to Diana, her mom committed suicide because of the abuse she suffered at her father's hands.
  • In A Girl Like Her, 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.
  • In The Godfather Part II Frank Pentangelli is presented with this option as an honourable way to make up for his betrayal. He graciously takes it.
  • Gone (2012): 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.
  • The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery: After the bank robbery goes pear-shaped, Gino tries to escape. Finding there is no way out, and having vowed he was Never Going Back to Prison, he puts his gun his mouth and kills himself.
  • The Grizzlies 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.
  • Phil in Groundhog Day 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.
  • In The Guilty, 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 try to convince her not to.
  • In the 2007 remake of 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.
  • In The Handmaiden, suicide is present throughout the entire film.
  • The Happening: Plants start secreting chemicals which drive people to suicide.
  • In Hard Core Logo after the disastrous final show 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.
  • Harrison Bergeron: 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).
  • This is played for laughs in the 1971 Hal Ashby film Harold and Maude, where the death-obsessed protagonist stages elaborate faux-suicides out of boredom. Until his friend Maude really (and cheerfully) commits Suicide by Pills on her 80th birthday, believing 80 is the right age and that she's lived a long, full life.
  • Higher Learning: Remy near the end.
  • In The Hills Have Eyes (2006), 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.
  • In The Hoodlum: Rosa jumps off the roof after she discovers she is pregnant and Vincent refuses to marry her and move away.
  • In Hot Spur, Carlo's sister committed suicide because she could not bear the shame of being raped. Following the bloodbath at the end of the film, Sole Survivor Susan kills herself.
  • At the end of Hot Tub Time Machine Lou confesses that he was trying to kill himself at the start of the film.
  • In The Housemaid (2010), 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.
  • Husk: Corey Comstock Ate His Gun after murdering his brother Alex and turning his body into a Scary Scarecrow.
  • Sarah Packard in The Hustler (1961) kills herself after she's been rejected by Eddie Felson and shamed into sleeping with Manipulative Bastard Bert Gordon all in a few hours.
  • I Knew Her Well had Adriana jumping off of her balcony at the end of the film.
  • In Inception, 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.
  • In the Fade: 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. However, after they're acquitted, she again decides to kill herself-along with the murderers. With a bomb she made, Katja does so.
  • The Invitation (2022): 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.
  • I Spit on Your Grave: 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 slut who was "asking for it".
  • George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life: 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 jumping off the bridge anyway to save said guardian angel.
  • 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.
  • Jack & Diane: 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.
  • Jason's Lyric: 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 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.
  • Juan of the Dead: Subverted. After a dispiriting conversation with his daughter, Juan stands for a long moment on the edge of a tall building before jumping down to a balcony below, so he can sneak into a married woman's apartment and have sex with her.
  • Kick-Ass: 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.
  • In The Killer That Stalked New York, Francie kills herself after being confronted by her sister Sheila about her affair with Sheila's husband Matt.
  • Towards the end of The King and the Clown when Jaeng-sang is blinded Gong-gil is Driven to Suicide. But is interrupted. But then they both commit suicide upon his recovery. It's that kind of film.
  • Kingdom of Heaven: Balian's wife hung herself out of grief at their child being stillborn.
  • In Lady Ninja Kaede, Koharu hangs herself out of shame after she is raped.
  • In The Last House on the Left Junior blows his brains out, as commanded by Krug.
  • In Lemon Tree Passage, when confronted with his part in the rape and murder, Sam kills himself; seemingly destroying the ghost in the process.
  • Lethal Weapon (1987): Self-destructive cop Riggs is distraught over the death of his wife. At one point, Riggs nearly eats his gun, and tells Murtaugh that every morning when he wakes up, he makes a decision whether to off himself or not.
  • Listen to Your Heart: 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.
  • In Lost and Delirious, Paulie jumps off the school roof after Tori rejects her.
  • At the end of Mädchen in Uniform Manuela tries to jump from the main staircase of her boarding school after she is banned from talking to her teacher, who she has a crush on. She's saved by her schoolmates and the movie ends with the headmistress silently walking down the hall afterwards.
  • 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 underlying mental health problems to send Yngve jumping off a bridge. He survives, but ends up in mental hospital.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • In Thor, it appears that suicide by collapsing wormhole is Loki's response to the realization that his father would never condone his actions, and indeed he is assumed dead by his family and the rest of Asgard. Subverted with precedent, however, in The Stinger, when he is shown to be alive and well and close to grabbing the Tessaract.
    • The Avengers (2012):
      • Bruce reveals that they once tried to attempt suicide but the Hulk took control and "spat the bullet out"
      • Subverted with Selvig who had been mind-controlled by Loki for most of the film. When Natasha found him after he was back to normal, he was looking over the edge of 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 Loki's scepter a few floors down which was the key to closing the alien portal.
    • Subverted with Zemo in Captain America: Civil War. 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 Cycle of Revenge, 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.
    • In Eternals, Ikaris is wracked with guilt over his actions and unable to reconcile his Undying Loyalty for Arishem and love for Sersi, and he commits suicide by flying at the sun.
  • In Mary Poppins, after Mr. Banks is 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...
    Mrs. Banks: Oh, George, you didn't jump into the river! How sensible of you!
    Constable Jones: (on the phone) It's alright, sir; he's been found. (beat) No, alive.
  • In Master and Commander, 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 picks up a small cannonball and jumps off the ship to drown.
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  • M.F.A.: 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 claiming to be the 'Campus Killer' in an attempt to clear Noelle's name. Noelle is devastated by this.
  • Les Misérables (1995): In the prologue, Henri's mother killed herself after learning that his father had died during a failed prison escape.
  • Misfit Heights: One puppet is seen preparing a noose to hang himself.
  • Having become a Death Seeker by the time the events of Mission: Impossible – Fallout occur, Lane's main goal after escaping custody is to kill himself in the nuclear blast at Kashmir but not before taking as much as Ethan's friends with him as well as to avoid answering for his crimes.
  • Monster's Ball: Sonny fatally shoots himself through the heart after a confrontation with his father Hank.
  • In A Murderer And His Child, the Villain Protagonist 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.
  • Murder in the First: It's implied that Young killed himself to escape solitary, with a note found saying that he was now free.
  • The Murder Man: The woman who calls Halford at the beginning, who got dumped and lost all her money, drowns herself in the bay.
  • Jordy in Mystery Team 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.
  • Mythica: Dagen's mother hung herself when he was a little boy, to escape sex slavery.
  • The Harold Lloyd film Never Weaken 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.
  • A New York Christmas Wedding: In the prime timeline Gabby was so devastated after miscarrying that she killed herself by walking in front of a car.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: 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.
  • Night Train to Lisbon: 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.
  • In No Kidding, 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.
  • In None Shall Escape, Anna drowns herself after letting slip to Marja who it was that raped her.
  • Oldboy (2003): 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 fucked his own daughter.
  • Occurs in An Officer and a Gentleman when Sid Worley drops out of the Navy Aviator program to marry his pregnant girlfriend. After she reveals the pregnancy was faked and she only want to marry an airman, he hangs himself in a motel shower stall.
  • Paranormal Asylum: 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.
  • In The Patriot (2000), after discovering that Tavington and his men have killed his wife and son, John Billings shoots himself in full view of the other militia members.
  • In La piel que habito (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 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.
  • In Pihu, Pooja leaves a scrawled note that she's committing suicide to escape her unhappy marriage.
  • Please Turn Over: In Jo's book, Naked Revolt, Blanche briefly considers drowning herself in the lake after learning of Roger's affair with Stella.
  • Prayers for Bobby: Bobby Griffith jumps off an overpass after being rejected by his mother for being gay.
  • In The Quiet Earth, 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. The twist here is that the man who committed suicide is the main character, and he survives to wander in an empty world, consumed by guilt and loneliness, because he succeeded at killing himself at the exact moment that the world ended.
  • In The Raid, Lieutenant Wahyu tries to shoot himself after 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, his revolver had run out of bullets.
  • Raising the Wind: When Mervyn is at risk of losing his scholarship unless he raises £500 in a fortnight:
    Jill: There's an obvious way out.
    Mervyn: There are three obvious ways, actually. I could hang myself, shoot myself, or throw myself in the river.
  • In Rats: Night of Terror, Diana slashes her wrists during her Heroic BSoD after being attacked by rats.
  • Near the end of Reefer Madness Blanche jumps out of a window. This was actually enforced by The Hays Code. One of their rules was that wrongdoers needed to punished.
  • Reform School Girls: After the murder of her kitten drives her over the Despair Event Horizon, Lisa goes to the tower in the center of the compound, climbs up, and falls to her death.
  • Towards the end of The Return of the Living Dead, 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, immolates himself in the retort.
  • In RoboCop 2, two of Murphy's would-be replacements commit suicide because they couldn't bear to live as cyborgs.
  • Romeo Must Die: 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.
  • In A Room in Town, Edmond kills himself when Edith makes clear her intent to leave him, and Edith herself dies by suicide when Francois is fatally wounded.
  • In The Room (2003), 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, eat a gun, and kill himself on his birthday.
  • Sappho: Sappho kills herself in the finale when Helene ends their affair.
  • In Saw II, John Kramer tried to kill himself. He lived, though. It gives John an epiphany.
  • Helena, the main villain in Scanners III: The Takeover. When the Ephemerol 3 no longer affects her psyche and she's confronted with her actions, she kills herself by electrocution.
  • In The Scribbler, a high-rise halfway house for mental patients suffers a plague of jumper suicides. Subverted in that the main character, who suffers from Split Personality syndrome, thinks one of her alternate personalities is killing the patients. Doubly subverted in that another patient is the actual murderer.
  • Subverted in Secret Honor. Nixon, at the apex of his Villainous Breakdown, puts a gun to his head and contemplates pulling the trigger, but decides to keep living out of sheer spite.
    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.
  • Serenity:
    • Though she doesn't actually carry it out, 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 put a bullet in her, because she is terrified of what the Operative will do to the rest of the crew to get to her.
    River: Put a bullet to me... Bullet in the brainpan, squish.
    • It is implied that the Operative was Driven to Suicide after seeing the effects of the Pax.
    The Operative: There is nothing left to see.
    • It turns out he wasnt though, as Zoe gets her revenge in the comics.
  • The Michael Haneke film The Seventh Continent is a very realistic portrayal of suicide, and largely focuses on the emptiness of the central family's life.
  • The Shawshank Redemption:
    • The elderly inmate 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.
    • At the film's climax, 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, eats his gun.
  • She Hate Me: Schiller jumps out of a window to his death in the very first scene.
  • Subverted towards the end of Sherlock Holmes (2009) 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.
  • A Shock to the System: George kills himself with the downers Graham left behind out of depression after he's forced into retirement.
  • In the Czech film The Shop on Main Street, after accidentally killing the elderly woman whose shop he'd been managing, the main character hangs himself.
  • Shutter Island has a slight variation; 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.
  • The Sisterhood of Night: Lavinia deliberately overdoses with pills after she's publicly forced to confess that the Sisterhood practices witchcraft and humiliated.
  • In both the play and the movie of Six Degrees of Separation, Rick kills himself after realizing how much he's screwed up in letting Con Man 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.
  • The Skeleton Twins is about a brother and sister pair that both come together after they both attempt suicide. Their father was said to have jumped off a bridge years earlier.
  • Son of a Gun: JR's cellmate kills himself to escape being raped in prison regularly.
  • In Spartacus, Gracchus and 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.
  • Timan in 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 drown himself in Victor's swimming pool.
  • In Stage Door, Kaye kills herself because the part she had so desperately wanted was taken by someone else.
  • A judge early on in The Star Chamber 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 Off on a Technicality to death via hitman.
  • A Star Is Born: Both versions (1937 and 1954) are famous for this occurring. The Suicide by Sea 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.
    • A Star Is Born (2018) - 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.
  • Star Trek:
    • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Captain Clark Terrell finds himself unwilling to kill Admiral Kirk despite Khan's insistence that he does so and the pain from the Ceti Alphan Eel Khan put in Terrell becoming intolerable. Throwing his wrist communicator aside Terrell turns his phaser on himself.
  • The Station Of The Cross: 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.
  • Stella Maris:
    • In the 1918 film Stella Maris, the protagonist kills herself after killing another woman. Most people think it was because Louise abused Unity when she adopted her, however Unity really killed herself to protect her friends from Louise.
    • 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.
    • Stella has some implications of being suicidal after she becomes well-aware of what is beyond her Gilded Cage.
  • Stonehearst Asylum: A man kills himself after escaping from Stonehearst. Lamb also attempted this in the past, but failed to because he ran out of bullets.
  • Percival in The Suicide Theory 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.
  • The Sunset Limited: 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. He leaves do it in the end.
  • Happens on several occasions in the movie Sunshine (2007), which takes place on a spaceship trying to avert the end of the world by re-igniting the Sun. 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.
  • Sunshine Cleaning:
    • 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.
    • When cleaning up after an elderly man's suicide, Rose and Norah are troubled by memories of their own mother's suicide.
  • In the 1968 mondo film Sweden: Heaven and Hell, 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.
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: Near the end of the film, Mr. Blue electrocutes himself on the third rail when he learns that New York doesn't execute people.
    Mr. Blue: Excuse me, do you still execute in this state?
    Lieutenant Garber: What? Oh, execute; no, not at the moment.
    Mr. Blue: Pity. [deliberately touches third rail]
  • Tales from the Crypt: After a sustained campaign of psychological warfare from the Elliots aimed at driving him out of his home, Grimsdyke hangs himself.
  • The protagonist in The Tenant feels 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 Bandage Mummy in hospital.
  • In the end of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines John and Katherine, armed with an already ticking C4 bomb, discover the "system core" they were sent to destroy to prevent The End of the World as We Know It 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 humanity needs them.
  • The Terror: Katrina's ultimate plan is to drive the Baron to suicide to avenge her son's death. Ultimately, she succeeds.
  • At the beginning of 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.
  • Titanic (1997):
    • At the end, we learn that Cal apparently shot himself after losing everything in the Great Depression.
    • 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.
  • The 1922 classic The Toll of the Sea ends with the protagonist killing herself. After her American husband left her for his childhood friend, Lotus Blossom gives their son to them then throws herself off a cliff into the sea.
  • In Tower Block, Jenny survives the sniper's initial assault but 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.
  • Trap For Cinderella: Do's father had shot himself as a result of Micky and Do discovering he was having an affair with Elinor.
  • Trouble for Two 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.
  • Truth or Dare (2012): 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.
  • Tunes of Glory: 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.
  • In Twelve and Holding, Jeff, one of the boys who accidentally killed Rudy, kills himself while in juvie.
  • Twice-Told Tales: 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.
  • One night in Twice Round the Daffodils, 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.
  • In The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, after Paul Allen's death, Kitty steps off a balcony and crashes through a glass roof onto the party guests.
  • Under the Piano 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.
  • Underworld U.S.A.: When Dirty Cop Police Chief Fowler is indicted for corruption, Driscoll attempts to get him to take a deal to testify against the The Syndicate. Fowler says that his family will never be safe so long as he is alive, draws his gun, and blows his brains out.
  • The Untold Story: Wong Chi Hang kills himself to avoid his own death sentence while in jail.
  • Upgrade: In a final, desperate attempt to keep STEM from killing Cortez, Grey aims the gun he's holding at his head. STEM itself decides to trap Grey's mind in a Lotus-Eater Machine to prevent him from doing this.
  • Alice from Up the Down Staircase has a crush on a teacher of hers. When she gives him a love letter he just fixes her grammar. It upsets her so much that she jumps out of a school window, though she survives.
  • In Vampire Diary: Hazel slits her wrists after learning that Vicki is going to have a vampire baby, killing herself so Vicki can feed on her blood.
  • Vampire's Kiss: Peter, in despair over thinking he's a vampire, tries to kill himself. It doesn't work however.
  • In Jess Franco's Venus In Furs, one of the revenge-killings is accomplished by inducing the person to commit Bath Suicide.
  • The Vindicator: As one last "fuck you" to 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.
  • Virus Shark: 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 SHVID-1 into the sea, and then jumps into it herself.
  • The Voices: 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, a distraught Jerry gives up and lets himself die in a fire rather than harm anyone else.
  • The Voyeurs:
    • Julia appears to slit her wrists after discovering Sebastian's been cheating on her. It turns out to be faked though.
    • 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.
  • Jonas in A Walk Among the Tombstones 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.
  • Patchi from Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie goes into a Heroic BSoD 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.
  • The Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes 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.
  • In Watch Your Stern, 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:
    Captain Foster: Get me my sword, Bill. I'm about to commit hara-kiri.
  • It's implied that Anna was trying to kill herself in the 1920 film Way Down East. Cast out into a blizzard, she runs towards the river... and falls down faint before she can jump in.
  • We Are the Night: Charlotte kills herself after her elderly daughter dies, with signs she was depressed even before at her life as a vampire.
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: 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. This is Foreshadowing for Yuri's suicide later in the movie.
  • In When Evil Calls, 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.
  • White Fawn's Devotion: White Fawn pulls out a knife and kills herself as Combs prepares to leave—or at least it looks like she does.
  • The Widow (2020): Zoya, after telling Vika that she's passing her burden on to her, has Vika shoot her in the head with a Flare Gun.
  • 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.
  • The World of Kanako:
    • Kanako's first boyfriend Ogata commits suicide after a long term of being bullied by the Matsunaga gang.
    • Dirty Cop Aikawa tries to commit suicide but fails, but is shot by fellow cop Asai immediately afterwards, who claims that Aikawa commited suicide.
    • The narrator contemplates suicide but changes his mind after Kanako interferes. It does not turn out well for him.
  • In The World's End 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.
  • The entire premise of Wristcutters: A Love Story. The only characters who didn't kill themselves are Kneller, who is one of the Powers That Be and McCall who accidentally overdosed.
  • A Year and Change: After being confronted about being complicit in a rape case involving underage girls, Kenny eventually kills himself when it is looking likely he will end up in prison.
  • In The Young Poisoner's Handbook, 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 (It Makes Sense in Context). 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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