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Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. The film centers on the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby over the course of twenty-four hours, on their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
Series
Dogme) volume 1
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A searing two-character drama about the choices people frequently make: to go on or give in to despair. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men: a black ex-con who claims to hear the voice of Jesus, and the white professor he stopped from throwing himself in front of an oncoming train.
Publisher
Republic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 160 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life.
7) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVD videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
An aging vaudeville star saves a young ballerina from suicide and then helps make her a star.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
9) Blackbird
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Maborosi
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yumiko is a vibrant and happy young wife and mother who is haunted by the childhood memory of watching her grandmother walk away from the family home, never to be seen again. When her husband dies a mysterious suicide, Yumiko is devastated by shock and grief. She struggles to care for her toddler son in the couple's cramped Osaka apartment.
13) The nice guys
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pair of private investigators look into the alleged suicide of a porn star.
14) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
15) The hedgehog
Publisher
Neo Classics Films Ltd
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The timely story of a girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father's old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renee Michel. When Paloma's camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renee's back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath...
Series
Criterion collection volume 432
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (56 p. : ill.)
Description
A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
17) Pulse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainmment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of young friends are rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. More deaths follow as the world is slowly being drained of life.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam is a troubled single mother who risks losing custody of her young daughter following a failed suicide attempt. Over the next few shaky weeks, Sam is released from the hospital into the care of her overbearing older sister, finds a job, makes tentative steps toward a new romance, and tries to reconnect with her child. But lives, and depression, sometimes have a way of making their own rules. Can a woman lost somewhere between hope and despair find...
20) Better off dead
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[c2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + scene selection guide.
Description
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts only bring him more agony and embarrassment.
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