Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "wanting-to-die"

1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.

Directors: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, Fabien Polack | Stars: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black

Votes: 237,799 | Gross: $574.93M

2. Oldboy (2003)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok

Votes: 637,034 | Gross: $0.71M

3. Antichrist (2009)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Votes: 136,704 | Gross: $0.40M

4. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Votes: 742,044 | Gross: $56.67M

5. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Sport

Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel

Votes: 722,596 | Gross: $100.49M

6. Infinite Storm (2022)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.

Directors: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert | Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O'Hare, Parker Sawyers

Votes: 10,452

7. Breathe (I) (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease.

Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers

Votes: 24,708 | Gross: $0.49M

8. Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.

Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken

Votes: 12,147

9. I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

R | 106 min | Horror, Thriller

When Katie innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into a nightmare of rape, torture and kidnapping. Now, she will have to find the strength to exact her brutal revenge.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Yavor Baharov, George Zlatarev

Votes: 32,922 | Gross: $0.00M

10. The Cable Guy (1996)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A designer makes a grievious mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black

Votes: 178,275 | Gross: $60.24M

11. Loving Vincent (2017)

PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory

Votes: 63,752 | Gross: $6.74M

12. Caravaggio (1986)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean

Votes: 7,026 | Gross: $0.00M

13. In a Better World (2010)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson

Votes: 41,719 | Gross: $1.01M

14. Euphoria (I) (2017)

R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Sisters in conflict travelling through Europe toward a mystery destination.

Director: Lisa Langseth | Stars: Eva Green, Alicia Vikander, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance

Votes: 4,749

15. Trouble Every Day (2001)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas

Votes: 9,318 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Babyteeth (2019)

MA-17 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.

Director: Shannon Murphy | Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace, Sora Wakaki

Votes: 19,092

17. The Trial (2010)

PG-13 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for a small town attorney, until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life.

Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Larry Bagby, Matthew Modine, Clare Carey, Robert Forster

Votes: 1,690 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Killing Season (2013)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, find their unlikely friendship tested when one of them reveals their true intentions.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia, Liz Olin

Votes: 38,882 | Gross: $0.03M

19. Faces (I) (1968)

R | 130 min | Drama

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

Votes: 11,670

20. The Pawnbroker (1964)

Approved | 116 min | Drama

A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez

Votes: 10,730

21. Spirits of the Dead (1968)

R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Directors: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp

Votes: 6,952

22. Last Cab to Darwin (2015)

Not Rated | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.

Director: Jeremy Sims | Stars: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith, Emma Hamilton

Votes: 4,226 | Gross: $0.03M

23. Beanpole (2019)

Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov

Votes: 12,275

24. Boredom (1998)

122 min | Romance, Drama

Martin is a philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might have killed her former lover.

Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer

Votes: 2,287 | Gross: $0.04M

25. Susan Slade (1961)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 946

26. Chicken with Plums (2011)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani

Votes: 9,983 | Gross: $0.25M

27. Synonyms (2019)

Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik

Votes: 6,295

28. Baaria (2009)

Not Rated | 163 min | Comedy, Drama

Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina

Votes: 7,999 | Gross: $0.00M

29. After Fall, Winter (2011)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance

Suicidal writer Michael leaves New York for Paris. He meets nurse Sophie who has a secret dominatrix job. Sophie cares for dying Anais. Michael and Sophie develop a combative yet passionate relationship amid existential crises.

Director: Eric Schaeffer | Stars: Eric Schaeffer, Lizzie Brocheré, Marie Luneau, Christian Mulot

Votes: 964

30. Jonathan (2016)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.

Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher

Votes: 1,178

31. The Canterville Ghost (1986 TV Movie)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A girl befriends a mischievous English ghost trying to scare her family (his descendants) back to America.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci, Alyssa Milano

Votes: 902

32. A Brief Vacation (1973)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José María Prada

Votes: 982 | Gross: $0.66M

33. Hiroshima (1953)

TV-PG | 85 min | Drama, War

Brilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.

Director: Hideo Sekigawa | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Eiji Okada, Yoshi Katô, Yumeji Tsukioka

Votes: 652

34. Crutch (2004)

R | 89 min | Drama, Romance

An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. ... See full summary »

Director: Rob Moretti | Stars: Eben Gordon, Rob Moretti, Juanita Walsh, Jennifer Laine Williams

Votes: 722 | Gross: $0.02M

35. After Class (2019)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

An NYC professor spends a week re-connecting with his family while defending his reputation over controversial behavior at his college.

Director: Daniel Schechter | Stars: Justin Long, Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, Michael Godere

Votes: 877

36. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

37. Happier Times, Grump (2018)

118 min | Comedy, Drama

The Grump prepares to die: everything is done and his wife is dead. He's making his own coffin when life suddenly walks in: his granddaughter needs the wisdom and stubbornness of her ... See full summary »

Director: Tiina Lymi | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Elina Knihtilä, Jani Volanen

Votes: 1,264

38. A Moral Man (2022)

19 min | Short, Drama

A right-to-die evangelist must confront their morality as a routine visit is thrown off course by a shocking revelation.

Directors: Paul Wade, Simon Wade | Stars: Toby Jones, Claudie Blakley

Votes: 11

39. The Lady and the Reaper (La dama y la muerte) (2009)

TV-G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Action

On her deathbed, a sad, white-haired woman yearns to reunite with her beloved late husband. However, the road to the afterlife can be long, and today's modern medicine works miracles.

Director: Javier Recio Gracia | Stars: Miguel Angel Perez, Eva Molina

Votes: 2,697

40. Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance

Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács, András Bálint

Votes: 349

41. Life Back Then (2011)

131 min | Drama

Two young lonely people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people.

Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Masaki Okada, Nana Eikura, Takuro Atsuki, Rei Dan

Votes: 143

42. Marriage Hunting Beauty (2018)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Takako is a beautiful designer in her thirties and has been in love before only to get burned. She is intent on marriage and registers herself on a site for marriage. Keiko takes an ... See full summary »

Director: Akiko Ôku | Stars: Atsuko Hirata, Shinpei Ichikawa, Mei Kurokawa, Seminosuke Murasugi

Votes: 72

43. The Muffin Song (2018 Music Video)

3 min | Animation, Comedy, Music

TomSka's latest addition to the hilariously warped asdfmovie series is an adorably weird music video in which he shows the evolution of Asdfmovie through old characters and a suicidal muffin.

Director: Thomas Ridgewell | Stars: Chloe Dungate, Sarah Fullen Gregory, Brock Baker, Christopher Bingham

Votes: 69

44. Missfostrad (2011)

15 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

A junkie gets violated, castrated, chopped and murdered.

Director: Alexi Carpentieri | Stars: Bitte Andersson, Ivonne Arosenius, Elin Assarsson-Lod, Alessandro Bucci

Votes: 18

45. Kshay (2020)

15 min | Short, Drama

In the quest for a better afterlife, Vishwas is compelled to take a life-changing decision to meet his departed wife and daughter. Kshay is a motion picture that takes the audience through ... See full summary »

Director: Aditya Arvind Chavan | Stars: Tejaswini Barve, Rohit Kokate, Mukta Patwardhan, Saanvi Pofali

46. South Park (1997– )
Episode: Death (1997)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

Grampa wants Stan to kill him, the parents all want to kill the Terrance and Philip show, and Death just wants to kill someone.

Directors: Matt Stone, Trey Parker | Stars: Mary Kay Bergman, Jennifer Howell, Trey Parker, Matt Stone

Votes: 3,963

47. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: For Cryin' Out Loud (1990)

Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A greedy rock promoter tries to steal the money raised at a benefit concert when his conscience intervenes.

Director: Jeffrey Price | Stars: Lee Arenberg, Katey Sagal, Iggy Pop, Sam Kinison

Votes: 1,168

48. VR.5 (1995–1997)
Episode: Simon's Choice (1995)

Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Sydney enters VR to probe the mind of a self-confessed traitor scheduled for execution to find out why he did it. She discovers he was being blackmailed by people who held his son hostage, ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Dubin | Stars: Robert Davi, Michael Easton, Anthony Head, Endre Hules

Votes: 28

49. The Young Ones (1982–1984)
Episode: Demolition (1982)

TV-PG | 34 min | Comedy

Mike, Neil, Vyvyan and Rick learn that the council are going to demolish the house. Vyvyan decides to demolish the house from the inside and Neil wants to commit suicide.

Director: Paul Jackson | Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan

Votes: 574

50. Dead Silent (2016–2021)
Episode: His Blue Light (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

In the mid-to-late 1990s, a sexual predator police dub "The Blue Light Rapist" goes on a serial attack spree across Arkansas. As authorities scramble to stop him in his tracks, he sets his sights on seventeen-year-old Shannon Woods.

Director: Jacob Vaughan | Stars: Kelsey Rose Healey, Andy Gion, Shayna Benardo, Tom Clark

Votes: 15