A difficult subject to deal with, suicide is a subject very much addressed by the seventh art. Over the years, several works have managed to study the subject productively. And it is exactly these works that end up on our list. The films indicated below are part of the genre of drama – except for the number two – working in an impactful way on the subject. It is also worth mentioning that we brought an honorable mention to the end of the list, with the inclusion of a documentary. Let’s go to the list!
10ยบ – The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963)
We will follow small fragments of the daily life of a man who had just left a clinic for the recovery of alcohol addicts, seeing how melancholy his way of acting on the world is. Sad, ‘The Fire Within’ exposes the destructive consequences that certain vices have on the psychological siege of a person, bringing the figure of depression that walks next to the central character.
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