North by Northwest

Leonard, assistant to antiquities collector Phillip, relates to Phillip and ad executive Roger what happened "since Jason committed suicide." (0:12)

Roger displays signs of alcohol intoxication after Phillip's men force him to drink a fifth of whiskey. To escape he must drive while intoxicated. (0:16)

In the courtroom Dr. Cross tells Roger he must obtain a sample to determine his blood alcohol level. (0:21)

alcohol intoxication | blood alcohol concentration | driving while intoxicated | suicide

The African Queen

#africanqueen

After a blow to the head, and hard work in the African heat, Rev. Sayer slips into delirium, disoriented to place and time, and fails to recognize his sister Rose. (0:13)

Captain Charlie assures Rose, "I never tried shootin' myself in the head neither." (0:25)

Delirium | Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition | disorientation | suicide

American Dreamer

Spoiler alert!

Contest winner Cathy suffers a head injury when she is hit by a car in Paris. (0:23)

Cathy identifies herself to a nurse as character Rebecca Ryan. (0:25)

Diplomat Don Carlos prepares a syringe to "terminate myself." (0:39)

Author Alan reads "Problems of the Mind" by Dr. Wolfgang Dietrich. [As far as I can determine the producers invented this book and author for the film.] (0:47)

Triggered by a familiar conversation, then after confrontation by her husband Kevin, Cathy begins to recall her true identity. (1:13, 1:24)

Drug kingpin Victor tells Cathy and Alan, "For a couple of centuries it was tea and opium. Nowadays it's cocaine and heroin." (1:32)

Dementia Due to Head Trauma | intermetamorphosis | misidentification syndromes | opium | suicide

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

#jayandsilentbob

The film opens with a song about drugs. Two kids by a "nickel bag" from dealers Jay and Bob. (0:02)

A police officer accuses Jay and Bob of "sellin' pot." (0:04)

Jay holds a comic book entitled "Bluntman and Chronic." (0:05)

Writer Holden asks Jay and Bob, "Why would I want to keep writing about characters whose central preoccupation is weed..." (0:07)

Jay pulls out a bag of joints for everyone in the van. They smoke joints. Hallucination of a talking dog. (0:17)

Jay sees a tranquilizer gun and says "F**ks you up like Percocet." (0:38)

Jay thinks an explosion has killed his new girlfriend Justice and grieves his loss. (0:43)

As Jay and Bob walk past a dealer asks, "Crack, want some crack?" (0:59)

Jay tells Justice, "That's alright. I'm a junkie with a monkey."  (1:29)

Bereavement | cannabis | joint | oxycodone

Read the paperback:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Sen. Ransom Stoddard tells the newspaper men, "I'm here to go to a funeral." (0:08)

Kaintuck stutters. (0:40, 0:53, 1:15, 1:31)

Rancher Tom, drunk and despondent, sets his home afire then sits in his easy chair. Did he intend to kill himself? (1:41)

Bereavement | stuttering | suicide

Man Hunt

Spoiler alert!

British captain Alan asks German Major Quive-Smith "What is it, a suicide note?" (0:13)

Quive-Smith confronts Alan, "You are in fact taking your own life."
Alan: "That's going to be hard to explain, isn't it?"
Alan: "My suicide..." (0:21)

Alan tells his friend Saul, "... the coroner brings in a verdict of suicide." (1:11)

Quive-Smith tells Alan, referring to Alan's friend Jerry, "The police reported that she jumped to her death from a window." (1:31)

suicide

Based on the novel by Geoffrey Household:

Caravaggio

Artist Caravaggio learns of death of Lena, grieves. Her body is prepared. (1:06)

Last rites. (1:08)

Caravaggio holds a knife. Has he died? Has he killed himself? (1:17)

Caravaggio dies. (1:25)

Bereavement

The Toy

Journalist come "toy" Jack tells hiring director Morehouse, referring to millionaire Bates' son Eric, "The kid needs a shrink..." (0:52)

psychiatrist

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The fleet admiral tells CO Harlock, "You've either been drinking or you're suffering form severe combat fatigue." (0:51)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Romulus, My Father

Spoiler alert!

Christina tells her son Raimond regarding his father, Romulus, "He loved me so badly when I tried to leave him he shot himself... but he missed." (0:12)

Outside their home Romulus beats Raimond. (0:37)

Romulus, hearing Raimond scream, finds Christina unconscious, an empty pill bottle next to her bed, pills scattered on the floor. (0:59)

Raimond finds Christina's lover Mitru beating her. (1:05)

Mitru has died. How? (1:07)

Christina takes an overdose of pills again after Raimond tells a teacher at his boarding school he does not want her to visit him again. (1:14)

Romulus grieves. The funeral. (1:16)

Raimond cries in bed next to Romulus. (1:17)

Romulus, apparently psychotic, almost kills Raimond with an ax. Raimond visits "Lakeside Ballarat Mental Hospital." (1:25)

Raimond visits Romulus in the hospital. Romulus appears catatonic with a burn on his left temple suggestive of ECT. (1:28)

Back home Romulus appears mute, barely responsive. (1:32)

Romulus tells Raimond how Mitra killed himself by jumping from tower after carefully planting a knife in the ground below, pointing up "just to make bloody sure." (1:34)

Bereavement | overdose | Physical Abuse of Adult | Physical Abuse of Child | psychiatric hospital | suicide

Read the book by Raimond Gaita:

Little Children

Narrator: "Ray from next door was a transvestite." Brief shot of Ray in drag. (0:28)

Sex offender Ronnie tells his mother May, "I have a psychosexual disorder." (0:56)

Ex-police officer Larry tells law school graduate Brad, after describing how he mistakenly shot and killed a young man while on duty, "I was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress syndrome by three different psychiatrists." (1:10)

Brad's wife and documentary filmmaker Kathy reviews footage of a boy talking about his father having been killed in Iraq. (1:11)

Sarah attends a literary group discussing Flaubert's Mme. Bovary: "... killed herself with rat poison... supposed to be depressing." (1:15)

Ronnie's date Sheila tells Ronnie about her psychiatric history, including taking medication of "all kinds, mostly psychotropic."
Ronnie: "So you had some kind of a breakdown... Nervous breakdowns don't just come out of nowhere."
Sheila: "Maybe it was the stress of being on my own. Maybe it's a chemical imbalance in my brain. Every psychiatrist I go to has a different opinion. This one guy... says I must have been sexually abused as a child... repressing the memory."
Sheila: "... my second breakdown..." (1:26)

A nurse tells Ronnie his mother has died in the hospital. Ronnie grieves. (1:52)

Ronnie tells Sarah, "She's gone. Mommy's gone." (2:04)


Larry finds Ronnie sitting in a playground swing. He notices blood dripping from the seat. Ronnie stands, and, pulling down his pants, reveals to Larry's horror that he has mutilated himself. (2:08)

Bereavement | chemical imbalance | cross-dressing | nervous breakdown | psychotropic | self mutilation | Sexual Abuse of Child | suicide

Children of the Century

Writer George says, "An honest woman has no choice but to give in or commit suicide." (0:12)

Poet Musset asks George, "Shall we jump? We'll never live another moment like this." (0:40)

Musset asks Dr. Pagello, "Can one find opium here?"
Pagello: "Of course. For insomnia?" (0:56)

Musset asks Pagello, "Did you find any opium?" (0:59)

Pagello tells Musset, "I have your opium." (1:04)

Pagello tells George, after Musset is injured in a fall, "It's my fault. I gave him the opium." Convinced that Musset will die, George appears racked with grief, and attempts herself to take an overdose. Pagello stops her. (1:09)

Musset appears to be delirious. (1:12)

Musset pleads with George and Pagello, "Don't send me to a madhouse." (1:21)

Exquisite close-up of the bulb of the opium pipe Musset is smoking. (1:25)

Musset tells his friend, "I ought to blow my brains out." (1:28)

Musset tells Aimée at a party after spilling the contents of a pillbox, "They're opium cachous." (1:34)

In a letter to Musset , George writes, "But you were delirious." (1:54)

George asks her publisher (Planche?), "He tried to find inspiration in absinthe?" (2:03)

George learns that Musset has died. (2:06)

absinthe | Bereavement | Delirium | Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition | opium | overdose | suicide

The Informant

Spoiler alert!

Food biochemist and company vice president Mark thinks to himself, "Pellagra gave'm all sorts of problems... dementia." (0:05)

Mark thinks to himself, "Paranoid is what people call you..." (0:21)

Mark undergoes a polygraph test. (0:37)

Mark's wife Ginger meets with psychiatrist Derek Miller in a restaurant. In his office Miller asks Mark, "Has anyone in your family been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you know, manic depressive?" (1:23)

Mark's new personal injury lawyer in a meeting says, "My client has a letter from his psychiatrist." Later, Mark reads from a letter to Ginger and FBI agent Brian, "When one discusses suicide this is a red flag. When one discusses how they will do it then it is very, very serious... another blunder... forced you into a bipolar situation."
Mark continues: "That's a total violation of my doctor patient confidentiality."
Brian responds, "Doctor patient confidentiality doesn't apply to forgeries." (1:34)

Judge Harold Baker addresses the courtroom: "There's no connection between Mr. Whitacre's bipolar disorder and the 45 counts of criminal misconduct he's been charged with." (1:39)

Mark tells us he has completed "an advanced degree in the psychology of jury selection." (1:40)

Compare Mark Whitacre to Stephen Glass in Shattered Glass.

confidentiality | pathological liar | psychiatrist

Read the book by Kurt Eichenwald:

The Cowboy and the Lady

Candidate for presidential nomination Horace Smith, shocked at the behavior of his brother Hannibal, threatens, "I'll send for a psychiatrist." (0:05)

psychiatrist

Izzy and Moe

During the prohibition era two ex-entertainers use their acting skills to fight crime as federal agents.

Volstead Act

Isabella

Student Cheung (Yan) tells policeman Ma that her mother died of lung cancer last June. (0:21)

Ma tells Cheung's landlord, "I suspect there's heroin in her room." (0:23)

Cheung tells Ma, "I miss my mom." (0:58)

Cheung and Ma fold decorated papers. As they dump them in an incinerator Cheung says, "Mom, come collect these things." (1:00)

Ma tells Cheung, "I sold the heroin I found." (1:36)

Bereavement | heroin

Kolya

Abandoned child Kolya pretends to talk to his deceased grandmother using a bath sprayer head as a telephone. (1:14)

Having attended several cremation ceremonies with cellist Louka, Kolya duplicates the process by placing a puppet in a shoebox casket. (1:19)

Simulation of Kolya's sensory distortions from delirium related to fever. (1:21)

Bereavement | Delirium | Delirium Due to a General Medical Condition

Princess Ka'iulani

The narrator tells of the Princess' childhood, "when she was just a young girl her mother passed away." (0:02)

Ka'iulani talks to her father Archie about the loss of her mother. (0:13)

Theo Davies tells Ka'iulani her uncle, King Kalakaua has died. (0:28)

Bereavement

Hawaii

Rev. Thorn tells his sister Abigail and his brother-in-law Charles, referring to their daughter Jerusha, "My dear sister, the fact is you have a daughter who is 22 and she grows more confused and depressed each day."
Jerusha's mother Abigail replies: "... it's only since this Capt. Hoxworth that she's had these depressions."
Charles: "My dear the only thing I'm not willing to do is abandon my child to fits of depression and religious mania..." (0:09)

Jerusha learns in a letter that her sister died months ago. (1:43)

Ali'i Nui Malama dies, apparently of natural cause, but seemingly by her own wish. Suicide? Her husband and brother Kelolo handles his grief by smashing his teeth on a rock and poking his eye out with a stick. (1:59)

Whaling captain Rafer learns from Rev. Abner that Jerusha has died. (2:30)

Bereavement | self mutilation | suicide

Mouse Hunt

At the bedside of their dying father restaurateur Ernie tells string magnate Lars, "Turn up the morphine drip." (0:11)

In the cat pound Ernie says to cat wrangler Maury they need a "feline, preferably with a history of mental illness." (0:41)

mental disorder | morphine

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy tells Helena and Alison how, "For 12 months I watched my father die when I was ten years old." (0:54)

Trying to talk to Jimmy after a stroke, his friend Ma Tanner appears to suffer from expressive aphasia. (0:56)

Burial of Ma Tanner (1:07)

Bereavement | expressive aphasia

The Right Stuff

A preacher comes to the home of a pilot's wife to inform her that he has died in an air crash. The funeral follows. (0:04)

Funeral service (0:28)

John Glenn's wife Annie stutters. (1:26, 2:22)

Bereavement | Stuttering

The White Countess

Diplomat Todd loses his wife and son in a fire. (0:56)

Todd tells Countess Sofia how he lost his daughter and his eyesight and how he felt he let his daughter down. (1:31)

Bereavement

The Panic in Needle Park

"The intersection at Broadway and 72nd Street on New York's West Side is officially known as Sherman Square. To heroin addicts it's Needle Park." (0:00)

Artist Marco asks artist Helen, "Smoke a joint? I tell you to smoke a joint." Drug dealer Bobby leaves Marco a plastic bag of unidentified drug, presumably heroin. (0:03)

Bobby tells pawn broker Esther, "I'm a dope addict... I'm a sex crazed dope fiend...I'm dying from the dope Esther." (0:12)

Bobby cooks a fix, draws it up in a syringe, tightens his belt on his arm, explaining to Helen: "I'm not hooked. I'm just chippin'" She tells Bobby about the "big thing... grass brownies." (0:15)

Bobby's brother Hank asks Bobby, "You still sellin' grass in the Village?" (0:19)

A male junky prepares a syringe. Bobby says, "Seven bucks for a nickle bag..." (0:23)

Close up shot of a metal bottle cap. A junky adds drug, water from a syringe, cooks the mixture with matches. He talks about "my girl in there" and draws up his fix. He talks about "Guys kickin' their habit in the street," applies a tourniquet to his arm where we see track marks. He injects a vein, appears high, then nods. (0:24)

Junky prostitute Irene talks about "smack" to a group sitting on a park bench. Bobby talks about "smack... coke." (0:29)

A male junky says there are "No problems with smack and coke..."
Bobby: "Ever try shootin' glue?"
Junky: "You mean sniffin' it."
Junky: "You know what the best high of all is?" (0:30)

Bobby tells Helen, "I can't. Not while I'm doin' junk." (0:34)

Bobby tells Helen, "I want you to score for me." (0:36)

Detective Hotch tells Helen "For the next 6 mos you've got everybody kickin' on the streets... junky, he'll always rat."
Later, Hank tells Bobby, "You've got your habit back."
Helen: "He's only chippin' "
Hank: "I chip. He uses." (0:41)

Helen opens a packet, taps the contents into a metal bottle cap, places the syringe in water (0:43)

Bobby injects Helen's arm. She removes the tourniquet, nods. (0:49)

A junky tells Helen, "I just heard Bobby's OD'd." They try to revive Bobby by stimulation and walking him around the room.
Bobby tells Helen on the phone from prison, apparently referring to the experience of his first use of heroin, "When you're clean that's all you can think about." (0:51)

Hank draws up a fix in syringe from a metal cap, hands it to Helen, (1:00)

Hotch, referring to Helen, tells Bobby, "She's shootin' $80 a day." (1:01)

Surgical masked people prepare white drug powder on a mirror using playing cards, apparently "cutting" it with a less costly substance. (1:08)

They package the mixture. (1:10)

Helen removes a needle from a nodding junky's arm. (1:11)

Hotch tells Helen, "He was shootin in his privates..." (1:15)

Helen tries to cover a track mark on her arm with powder (1:19)

Helen tells Bobby, "Maybe we oughtta move... out of needle park." (1:28)

In the men's room on a ferry Bobby prepares a fix, places a tourniquet, and injects Helen. She nods. (1:29)

Helen prepares to use. (1:34)

Helen tries to get a doctor to prescribe a pharmaceutical opiate analgesic. He asks her, "Are you an addict?" He gives her a small supply but says, "Don't hit me again." (1:35)

Hotch tells Helen she's "pushin' pills... you're pushin pills to kids." (1:37)

Helen lights a joint. (1:43)

addict | cut | heroin | joint | Opioid Withdrawal | Substance Dependence

Brigadoon

Hunter Jeff tells hunter Tommy, "Don't start talking yourself into an inferiority complex." (0:10)

inferiority complex

Molokai

Spoiler alert!

Leper William dies. The funeral procession follows. (0:44)

Father Damien at the burial. (0:56)

Brother Joseph announces that "Father Damien is gone." The people of Molokai mourn his loss. (1:54)

Bereavement

Based on the biography by Hilde Eynikel

The Karate Kid

Spoiler alert!

Dre's father died November 3, 2007. (0:01)

His Kung fu teacher Mr. Han tells Dre how his own son and wife were killed in a motor vehicle accident while he was driving. To atone for or attempt to undo the loss he refurbishes a car every year, then smashes it. (1:38)

Bereavement | survivor guilt