Does someone asphyxiate?

Browse movies, tv shows, books and more where someone asphyxiates.
This applies mostly to Space-set content where the body goes through significant harm and deadly trauma when sucked into the vacuum of space but can apply to drownings, claustrophobic environments or violence (which many are particularly sensitive to post the death of George Floyd). Not only that but these situations can be scary for children to watch, the suddenness of many situations where they occur can frighten adults and all viewers should be able to go into a movie aware of what they could see.
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Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
146
No
4
15
howdywrites
Drowning specifically
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
94
No
11
8
LuckyFox
A character is briefly strangled by cables.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
90
No
9
4
frootsnak
Someone is briefly strangled in a fight near the end of the film
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
88
No
7
8
PhoenixMesmer
No one fully suffocates, but there is a scene where characters begin to gasp for air when they find themselves leaving a planet's atmosphere.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
72
No
3
7
Spoilers!

Actually🤓 no, but Charlie doesn't die due to trouble breathing, she's severely allergic to nuts, accidentally eats some, goes into anaphylactic shock and then on the way to the hospital, dies in a freak accident.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
71
No
8
8
dippyegg
It seems like multiple characters are about to at the beginning of their rituals.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
69
No
7
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
67
No
3
4
cherry
asphyxiation/crushing
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
64
No
20
7
Siete
SPOILERS:
Three characters die of carbon monoxide poisoning at the start of the film. The deaths are not shown, but the aftermath is. There are also depictions of the one of the deceased as a jumpscare later in the film.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
64
No
0
14
ProfessorProcyon
A character struggles to breathe (with it looking as if he's choking) before dying.
1
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
61
No
3
7
artsfartz
Someone on life support/intubated is removed from life support.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
59
No
1
2
ANLenore
There is choking and one scene with something wrapped around their neck but nobody is killed that way.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
57
No
6
6
kawara
Bathtub suicide scene.
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
50
No
0
4
balls
jane's death is of asphyxiation
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
49
No
4
0
PandaCat8
Queen Ramonda dies by drowning when water bombs hit the palace and she can’t swim up in time.
Video Game • 2017 Report
Yes
43
No
0
6
idonom
In Act 3, one of Monika's random conversation topics has her reveal to the player that (SPOILERS) Sayori didn't actually snap her neck when she hanged herself, but instead suffocated to death due to hanging herself improperly. Act 2 has a random event that is theorized to represent Sayori's suicide in this way, with the audio sounding like someone struggling to breathe and the screen gradually fading out with veins on the sides.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
39
No
4
1
laurenxox
S2
 E2
Someone is smothered to death by a pillow.
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
38
No
2
4
Several people faint from lack of oxygen while swimming
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
38
No
2
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
37
No
5
1
Vitya
S3
 E3
Dean chokes in episode 11
2
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
34
No
10
Video Game • 2009 Report
Yes
33
No
0
4
ESBirdnerd
You can suffocate in some blocks, such as sand, gravel etc.
Movie Report
Yes
33
No
4
2
mad_melody
The protagonist chokes on a sub he eats too quickly, about halfway through the movie. His friend has to help him cough the food back out. Additionally, he has breathing problems throughout the movie, frequently wheezing, and later requires an oxygen tank.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
33
No
3
0
Someone is stabbed in the throat and chokes, so kindof yes?
Movie Report
Yes
33
No
0
2
pitifulcowboy
CPR is performed on Toni after she drinks paint
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
33
No
4
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
31
No
3
5
the main character attempts suicide by asphyxiation
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
31
No
3
2
The grabber gets strangled
TV Show • 2014 Report
Yes
31
No
3
2
Ashhhhhhhhh
A character is shown having died of auto-erotic asphyxiation; and the entire episode is about that topic
Movie • 1997 Report
Yes
30
No
6
3
saste12
No one is actually shown drowning or struggling to breathe, though it can be assumed many people asphyxiate by drowning.
3