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Noriko's Dinner Table
, is the follow-up to the cult movie ''Suicide Club'' , a Japanese film concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law to a shady cult. It won the Don Quijote award at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic an a special mention. The movie was written and directed by Sion Sono. This film deals with various themes such as the generation gap on modern families, the nature of happiness, suicide, the lack of real communication, the alienation... More »
Leaving Las Vegas
''Leaving Las Vegas'' is a 1995 romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholic and a prostitute from Las Vegas, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, respectively. The film was directed and written by Mike Figgis, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Two weeks after the production of the film had started, O'Brien committed suicide. A halt of the project was considered, but work on the film was continued as a memorial of sorts. More »
List of films about suicide
This is a list of films about suicide, divided between those in which the suicide is the main theme of the and those in which the act of suicide is committed but is not the main theme. More »
24 Hour Party People
''24 Hour Party People'' is a 2002 film about Manchester's popular music community from 1977 to 1997, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. It begins with the punk rock era, and moves through the 1980s into the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson, the head of Factory Records , and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory... More »
The Hours (film)
''The Hours'' is a 2002 Academy Award winning film and Best Picture nominee about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by Virginia Woolf's novel, ''Mrs Dalloway''. All the action takes place within the span of one day. Nicole Kidman portrays renowned British author Woolf , Julianne Moore plays a troubled housewife in 1951 who is reading the novel and Meryl Streep plays a lesbian book editor in 2001 who is the embodiment of Mrs Dalloway & is coping with... More »
Ordinary People
''Ordinary People'' is an Academy Award winning 1980 American motion picture drama and the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story is about the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois following the death of the oldest son. It was based upon the 1976 novel by Judith Guest. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning that year's Academy Award for Best Picture and various other major film awards. More »
Dead Poets Society
''Dead Poets Society'' is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher at a highly conservative and autocratic boys' school who inspires his students to make changes to their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature. The story is set at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont and was filmed at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware. A novelization by Nancy H. More »
The Virgin Suicides (film)
''The Virgin Suicides'' is a 1999 film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett. Based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, the film tells of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters in an upper middle class suburb of Detroit during the 1970s. The girls’ suicides fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for the acts. More »
Heathers
''Heathers'' is a 1989 black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Shannen Doherty, and Christian Slater. It is widely viewed as a classic teen film of the 1980s and a black comedy masterpiece considered revolutionary at the time because of its high levels of violence, cruelty, and absurdity in a high school setting. It was written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann. On its release, the film was seen as a rejoinder to the gentler and more romanticized view of high school and... More »
The Children's Hour (film)
''The Children's Hour'' is a 1961 film adaptation of the play of the same name written by Lillian Hellman. It was directed by William Wyler and stars Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner in the leading roles. More »
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