Depression/Bipolar Disorder/Suicide Films

• The After (2023, 18 minutes, Warning: Suicide, heavy grief)

David Oyelowo stars in this film as a grieving rideshare driver who picks up a passenger who helps him confront his past.

• Garden State (2004, 102 minutes, rated R) 

Zach Braff stars in a film he wrote and directed, based on his real-life experiences. 

• Helen (2009), 120 minutes, rated R) 

Ashley Judd stars as a professor struggling with severe depression. 

• The Hours (2002, 114 minutes, rated PG-13) 

This excellent film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel- A tribute to Virginia Woolf- tells three inter-related stories, each of which involves depression. 

• Lars and the Real Girl (2007, 1hr 46mins, PG-13)

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

• Numb (2007, 93 minutes, rated R) 

Matthew Perry stars as a man struggling with depersonalization disorder and depression. The film received honors at many film festivals around the country. 

• Of Two Minds (2012, 93 minutes, not rated) 

This documentary about bipolar disorder follows the lives of three people living with the diagnosis. 

• Silver Linings Playbook (2012, 122 minutes, rated R) 

Bradley Cooper stars as a man with bipolar disorder, trying to figure things out and find his way. Jennifer Lawrence stars as his muse. 

• Sylvia (2003, 114 minutes, rated R) 

Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this biographical dramam about the poet Sylvia Plath, who struggled with depression and ultimately died by suicide. 

• Touched with Fire (2015, 110 minutes, rated R) 

Two poets-both suffering from bipolar disorder meet and fall in love while staying in a psychiatric hospital. Stars Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby.