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2) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily and Paul summon their loved ones to their country house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her life on her terms after a long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily's daughters Jennifer and Anna. Joining the collective farewell is Lily's son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter's partner, and grandson.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
日本語
Description
Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years before, a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and a sense of peace.
6) Japón
Series
Criterion collection volume 968
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. Recruiting a cast of nonactors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican countryside with earthy tactility, conjuring...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's, after one hit album, the leader of the band, Eddie and the Cruisers, drove his car off a bridge. Years later, when the songs again become popular, a former band member, begins a search for the missing tapes of the unreleased second album.
Series
Criterion collection volume 45
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
9) Paradise now
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Arabic
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
10) The bridge
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Documents one year of activity on the Golden Gate Bridge, recording nearly two dozen successful suicides, including interviews with family, friends, witnesses, and those who failed at their attempts.
11) The war within
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A Pakistani engineering student in Paris is imprisoned and interrogated by Western intelligence service for suspected terrorist activities. What unfolds is a profound human and political drama as we tensely observe the state of mind of a suicide bomber.
12) The Departure
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
日本語
Description
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself.
13) The heirloom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. Only one heir secretly survived and years later he inherits the family mansion and returns there with his fiancee. Mysterious and deadly events begin to take place, the demented legacy of the Yang family curse is reborn and history is soon poised to repeat itself.
14) 'Night, mother
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Claude Ridder is recovering from a failed suicide attempt after the collapse of his relationship with Catrine. He is approached by an obscure scientific lab, who wants him to participate in the human trials of a new time travel device. The test will send him back one year's time, for one minute. But the machine goes haywire, and Ridder gets caught in a never-ending series of temporal leaps, re-living his tragic life out of sequence.
16) La vérité
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
Series
Criterion collection volume 305
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Français
Description
A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
18) Kairo =: Pulse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
日本語
Description
Japanese university students investigate a series of suicides linked to an Internet Web cam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
19) The forest
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman goes into Japan's suicide forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.
20) Imaginary heroes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The Travis family experiences a stunning tragedy which begins to unravel them. Teenaged son Tim views his life as a bad dream. His father, Ben tunes out and treats his wife and children like strangers. His mother, Sandy sharpens her tongue with sarcasm and dulls her senses with pot while struggling hard to conceal a secret that threatens to ruin them all. The Travises, eventually, learn to accept one another as family.
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