The Chronology of Water

Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.

Blue Eyed Girl

♡ 9

high school sweetheart

Fortysomething Jane Messina is forced to re-evaluate her life after returning home to visit her two sisters and her sick father, making her wonder what could have been with her first love.

The Good Heart

2009

English

6.8

♡ 3

32%

san francisco, california

suicide attempt

tavern

Dagur Kári Director

Nicolas Bro as Ib Dolby

Brian Cox as Jacques

Paul Dano as Lucas

Stephen Henderson as Psychiatrist

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.

Romulus, My Father

2007

English

6.6

♡ 4

55%

65%

based on memoir or autobiography

Richard Roxburgh Director

Franka Potente as Christina Gaita

Marton Csokas as Hora

Eric Bana as Romulus Gaita

Simon Maiden as Town Lad

The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Hardflip

2012

English

5.3

♡ 4

56%

san diego, california

skateboarding

sports

suicide attempt

Johnny Remo Director

Rosanna Arquette as Bethany Jones

Christian Hosoi as Hosoi

John Schneider as Jack

Christopher Michael as Ralph

Hardflip follows the story of Caleb (Randy Wayne) a young skater whose ill mother (Rosanna Arquette) and absent father (John Schneider) leave him reaching for the only hope he has...becoming a sponsored skater. After his mother falls ill, Caleb finds a stack of old love letters. He sets out to find the father he never knew and inadvertently begins a journey he never could have expected. This story explores what happens when we let go of our anger and pain and forgive those who have hurt us most.

Heaven Knows What

2014

English

6.8

♡ 26

89%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Ben Safdie Director

Robert Shulman as Doctor in Mental Asylum

Arielle Holmes as Harley

Caleb Landry Jones as Ilya

Sebastian Bear-McClard as Orderly

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

Coconut Hero

2015

English

6.3

♡ 15

29%

Florian Cossen Director

Krista Bridges as Cynthia Tyson

Udo Kier as Mr. Morrow

Duane Murray as Principal

David Tompa as Steven, Social Worker

It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.

The Slender Thread

1965

English

7.0

♡ 9

71%

Sydney Pollack Director

Dabney Coleman as Charlie

Edward Asner as Det. Judd Ridley

Telly Savalas as Dr. Joe Coburn

Paul Newlan as Sgt. Harry Ward

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Something Wild

1961

English

6.7

♡ 7

50%

Jack Garfein Director

Logan Ramsey as Bit Part

Diane Ladd as Bit Part

Ralph Meeker as Mike

Jean Stapleton as Shirley Johnson

A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.

Happy End

2017

French

6.6

♡ 18

69%

Michael Haneke Director

Isabelle Huppert as Anne Laurent

Nathalie Richard as L'agent immobilier

Toby Jones as Lawrence Bradshaw

Daniel Auteuil as Thomas Lauret

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

Nina Forever

2015

English

5.6

♡ 57

92%

self-inflicted injury

suicide attempt

Thriller

Ben Blaine Director

David Troughton as Dan

Barry Castagnola as Gary, Store Manager

Lee Nicholas Harris as Police Officer

Cian Barry as Rob

Holly loves Rob and tries to help him through his grief – even if it means contending with his dead girlfriend Nina, who comes back, bloody and broken, every time they make love

Unlovable

2018

English

6.1

♡ 5

82%

sex and love addiction

suicide attempt

Suzi Yoonessi Director

Morgan Krantz as Dean

Josh Fadem as Logan

Aneliese Roettger as Meeting Member

Josh Ruben as Sam

A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.

Night Killer

1990

English

4.3

♡ 11

Bruno Mattei Director

Peter Hooten as Axel

Tara Buckman as Melanie Beck

Claudio Fragasso as Reporter with baseball cap

Bruno Mattei as Reporter with yellow scarf

Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer's face, Beck has blocked it from her memory. Becoming suicidal, she tries to kill herself on the beach but is saved by Axel, another rapist sleazeball who keeps her locked in his hotel room. All this builds to a mind blowing conclusion.

The Female Animal

1957

English

6.1

♡ 4

96%

older woman younger man relationship

rebellious daughter

Romance

suicide attempt

Harry Keller Director

Jan Sterling as Lily Frayne

Ann Doran as Nurse

Jane Powell as Penny Windsor

Gregg Palmer as Piggy

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

The Prince of Tides

1991

English

6.8

♡ 15

68%

70%

Action

american football

based on novel or book

Barbra Streisand Director

Kate Nelligan as Lila Wingo Newbury

Nick Searcy as Man at Party

Melinda Dillon as Savannah Wingo

Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.

The Lady Gambles

1949

English

6.6

♡ 3

29%

Michael Gordon Director

John Indrisano as Bert

Peter Brocco as Horse Player

Don Beddoe as Mr. Dennis Sutherland

Harold Goodwin as Westerner

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

The Day After I'm Gone

2019

Hebrew

6.5

♡ 4

75%

Nimrod Eldar Director

Eran Naim as Policeman

Maayan Eliasi as Police woman

Ziv Peleg as Ranger

Menashe Noy as Yoram

Yoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel-Aviv, is forced to re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter Roni, after she wishes to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother’s family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.

The Forgiving

2020

English

7.4

♡ 2

Action

Drama

forgiveness

husband wife relationship

David J. Stern Director

Michael Everett Johnson as Arnold

John Gerard Healy as Avi Brickman

Kathy Sanders as Clara

Dane Matthews as College Student

Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.

The Suicide Shop

2012

French

6.2

♡ 20

71%

Patrice Leconte Director

Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Le joli garçon

Eric Métayer as Le SDF

Jacques Mathou as Monsieur Calmel / Monsieur Dead for Two

Jules Poisson as Un copain d'Alan

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

Everybody's Woman

1934

Italian

7.3

♡ 2

Max Ophüls Director

Elena Zareschi as

Maria Puccini as

Achille Majeroni as Il portiere del teatro

Mario Ferrari as Il produttore cinamatografico

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

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The Chronology of Water

Blue Eyed Girl

The Good Heart

Romulus, My Father

Hardflip

Heaven Knows What

Coconut Hero

The Slender Thread

Something Wild

Happy End

Nina Forever

Unlovable

Night Killer

The Female Animal

The Prince of Tides

The Lady Gambles

The Day After I'm Gone

The Forgiving

The Suicide Shop

Everybody's Woman