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Pyaasa (1957)
, 2h26Directed by Guru Dutt
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about suicide, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Rehman, Leela Mishra
Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unsuccessful poet whose works are not taken seriously by publishers or his brothers (who sell his poems as waste paper). Unable to bear their taunting that he is a good-for-nothing, he stays away from home and is often out on the streets. He encounters a good-hearted prostitute named Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman), who is enamoured with his poetry and falls in love with him. He also encounters his ex-girlfriend Meena (Mala Sinha) from college and finds out that she has married a big publisher Mr. Ghosh (Rehman) for financial security. Ghosh hires him as a servant to find out more about him and Meena. A dead beggar to whom Vijay gave his coat and whom he tries to save unsuccessfully from the path of a running train is mistaken for Vijay. Gulabo goes to Ghosh and gets his poems published. Ghosh does so feeling he can exploit the poems and make a killing. The poems are very successful. However, Vijay is alive and in the hospital after the train mishap.
On the Beach (1959)
, 2h15Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Radio, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson, John Meillon
During 1964, in the months following World War III, the conflict has devastated the northern hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, killing all life there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south; the only areas still habitable are in the far reaches of the southern hemisphere.
Harakiri (1962)
, 2h15Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarō Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Kei Satō, Hisashi Igawa, Yoshio Inaba
Edo, 1630. Tsugumo Hanshirō arrives at the estate of the Ii clan and says that he wishes to commit seppuku within the courtyard of the palace. To deter him Saitō Kageyu (Rentarō Mikuni), the Daimyo's senior counselor, tells Hanshirō the story of another rōnin, Chijiiwa Motome – formerly of the same clan as Hanshirō.
Jules and Jim (1962)
, 1h42Directed by François Truffaut, Robert Bober
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Buddy films
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Jean-Louis Richard
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile, and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea.
The Fire Within (1963)
, 1h48Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about suicide
Actors Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Hubert Deschamps, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Jean-Paul Moulinot
Alain Leroy, a recovering alcoholic at a rehabilitation clinic in Versailles suffers with a depression. He intends to commit suicide, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one final time, trying to find a reason to live.
This Special Friendship (1964)
, 1h40Directed by Jean Delannoy, François Dupont-Midi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Rail transport films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Didier Haudepin, Michel Bouquet, Louis Seigner, François Leccia, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, Gérard Chambre
Georges, un beau et ambitieux jeune homme de 14 ans, entre dans l’internat catholique Saint-Claude, régi d’une main de fer par les bons pères. Il devine, avec étonnement, l’existence de relations homosexuelles entre certains condisciples du même âge ; mais lui-même fait la connaissance d’Alexandre, un beau et charmant élève des petites classes âgé de 12 ans et il en tombe amoureux.
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
, 1h55Directed by Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Fourastié
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes La provence, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Roger Dutoit, Hans Meyer
Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After attending a mindless party full of shallow discussions in Paris, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with his baby-sitter, an ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), leaving his wife and children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand soon discovers that Marianne is being chased by OAS gangsters, two of whom they barely escape.
Up to His Ears (1965)
, 1h50Directed by Philippe de Broca, Claude Pinoteau
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Jean Rochefort, Valérie Lagrange, Maria Pacôme, Mario David
Arthur Lempereur, milliardaire désœuvré de trente ans, volage mais fiancé à la jeune Alice, veut en finir avec la vie, par ennui. Toutes ses tentatives échouent. Il décide alors de partir sur son yacht avec Alice, son valet Léon, sa future belle-mère Suzy et Cornelius, le compagnon de celle-ci, et enfin M. Goh, un vieil ami et ancien tuteur. Ils doivent faire le tour du monde.
, 1h38Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Masakazu Tamura
A 18 ans, le sexe est l'unique passion de Nejiko. Elle fait la rencontre d' un homme, avec qui elle espère bien faire l'amour. Mais l'homme reste insensible à ses avances : obsédé par l'idée de mourir, il cherche en vain celui qui acceptera de le tuer. Alors qu'elle l'a attiré sur une plage, tous deux sont capturés par une bande de yakuzas, qui les emmènent dans leur repaire...
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
, 1h5Directed by Kōji Wakamatsu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Erotic films
Actors Takeshi Kitano
Poppo, a teenage girl, is raped by four boys on the roof of a seven-story apartment building. She asks them to kill her, but they mock her and leave. Tsukio, a teenage boy, has been watching the rape passively. Over the next couple days, Poppo and Tsukio begin a relationship, telling each other of their troubled past and philosophizing about their fate. Poppo describes earlier rapes, which are shown in flashback. In a color flashback, Tsukio tells of his own recent sexual abuse at the hands his parents and another couple, all of whom he has stabbed to death. Poppo repeatedly asks Tsukio to kill her, but he refuses.
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
, 2h1Directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about horses, Demons in film, Ghost films, Road movies, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Fonda, Alain Delon, Serge Marquand
Les étranges rapports d'amour que la comtesse Frederica, débauchée notoire, mais cavalière émérite, entretient avec un superbe étalon noir en qui elle voit la réincarnation de son vertueux cousin Wilhelm qui l'a dédaignée et dont elle se culpabilise de la disparition dans l'incendie de son écurie qu'elle a commandité par vengeance…
The Happy Ending (1969)
, 1h57Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, Political films
Actors Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn
1953: Through the course of a Colorado autumn and winter, Mary Spencer (Simmons) and Fred Wilson (Forsythe) lead an idyllic existence. Mary drops out of college (with 6 months to go) to marry Fred. Their perfect wedding mirrors the happy endings of the films Mary loves.
Harold and Maude (1971)
, 1h31Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Vieillesse, Buddy films
Actors Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Eric Christmas, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Ellen Geer
Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a young man obsessed with death. He stages elaborate fake suicides, attends funerals and drives a hearse, all to the chagrin of his socialite mother (Vivian Pickles).
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
, 2h10Directed by Marco Ferreri, Rémy Duchemin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol, Monique Chaumette
The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French slang for "excessive eating". (the Italian abbuffata means "great eating").
Young Werther (1993)
, 1h35Directed by Jacques Doillon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about suicide
Actors Margot Abascal, Pierre Mezerette
Le film suit l'itinéraire d'Ismael, jeune adolescent de 13 ou 14 ans, de son lycée à la rue, de l'amour à la haine.