can anyone suggest some more films like this?

Those movies don't have the same feel and atmosphere as this one. They deal with suicide, but have very different moods.

If you haven't seen Everything is Illuminated. It is similar in that it's a travel movie, the charecters grow and learn from one another, and it has a similar soundtrack. Highly recommend.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie with an atmosphere quite like this one. It's a very original movie :)

Delivering Milo!!!

I can't recommend it enough if you enjoyed this movie!!!

Like the person below me said,
Virgin Suicides is completely different from Wristcutters except, obviously, on one front. Well, & they were both based on a book (or novella).

The Virgin Suicides has an incredible atmosphere & soundtrack as well, but to me, TVS is so beautiful. Wristcutters' purgatory is purposely NOT beautiful. It'd be weird if it was. Visually, it's not a beautiful film, and The Virgin Suicides is. Sofia Coppola's movies always are. Also, suicide is treated a lot more seriously. Granted, Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of the book, did intend for their to be some humor in it, & there is. Such as,
"have we photosynthesized our breakfast today?"
& the gas mask party at the end of the movie & the teenager who flings himself in the pool screaming, "but I've got problems!" & making a joke about it. also a girl talking about how she put rat poison in a pie to kill herself, but her grandma ate it and some women, gossiping, referring to Cecilia Lisbon, "She didn't want to kill herself. She wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme."
but the boys, & the narrator, take it very seriously. no reference to the girls "offing themselves" ... it's always suicide, & the boys watch the girls from afar & spend the whole movie (& book) trying to make sense of something they will never understand. but there is no happy ending, b/c there are no easy answers, and sometimes there is no real specific reason that people kill themselves. i think a lot of people are as frustrated as the boys in the movie that they don't get a real answer as to why the girls all killed themselves. & that's why i love it. there are a million reasons why a person commits suicide... and i think, more often than not, there probably isn't a clear cut answer.

the virgin suicides is my favorite movie ever, & i argue with those who think the book is better. it doesn't explain any more than the movie, & the best quotes from the book are in the movie. I'm a visual person, so what more do you need?
so, obvs. the wristcutters didn't match up to that level for me, but i really enjoyed the movie .. esp. the smile at the end, b/c they couldn't do that in purgatory. i also believe that zia and mikal were in purgatory/coma together, & that he didn't make it up, not necessarily, b/c he was in a coma. he WAS there, for some time. i also love the end b/c i believe they recognized each other, & mikal was probably so relieved that zia came back as well. and they weren't able to SMILE where they were. it was certianly a more uplifting ending than TVS...

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I just finnished watching Girl, Interrupted. I don't think it's like this movie at all... :|

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i really love this movie, too ;)

recomm. --> i think of 'jellyfish', made by etgar keret who wrote the short story wristcutters is based on but i haven't seen it by now :( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807721/

and the films made by kusturica are a bit similar to this kind
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001437/

Chumscrubber is a much darker, more serious movie about suicide... a lot less comedy.... in fact, not much comedy at all....

THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND!!!!

GREAT MOVIE!

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