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
141
No
4
14
howdywrites
Drowning specifically
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
91
No
11
8
LuckyFox
A character is briefly strangled by cables.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
86
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
63
No
1
1
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.
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 • 2022 Report
Yes
59
No
0
12
ProfessorProcyon
A character struggles to breathe (with it looking as if he's choking) before dying.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
59
No
7
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
57
No
2
2
cherry
asphyxiation/crushing
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
54
No
6
6
kawara
Bathtub suicide scene.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
51
No
7
5
dippyegg
It seems like multiple characters are about to at the beginning of their rituals.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
50
No
1
2
ANLenore
There is choking and one scene with something wrapped around their neck but nobody is killed that way.
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.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
46
No
20
6
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.
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.
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
44
No
0
4
balls
jane's death is of asphyxiation
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
38
No
2
4
Several people faint from lack of oxygen while swimming
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
31
No
4
1
laurenxox
S2
E2
Someone is smothered to death by a pillow.
Video Game • 2017 Report
Yes
30
No
0
5
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.
Movie Report
Yes
30
No
0
2
pitifulcowboy
CPR is performed on Toni after she drinks paint
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
30
No
4
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
29
No
5
1
Vitya
S3
E3
Dean chokes in episode 11
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
29
No
3
5
the main character attempts suicide by asphyxiation
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
29
No
2
0
Someone is stabbed in the throat and chokes, so kindof yes?
Video Game • 2009 Report
Yes
28
No
0
2
ESBirdnerd
You can suffocate in some blocks, such as sand, gravel etc.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
28
No
1
6
People faint due to lack of oxygen while swimming, but they do not die
TV Show • 2014 Report
Yes
28
No
3
2
Ashhhhhhhhh
A character is shown having died of auto-erotic asphyxiation; and the entire episode is about that topic
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
28
No
1
7
3 characters drown but it isn't shown, we just see them underwater. eta: At the end of the film, a woman attempts to strangle her husband briefly with her handcuffs
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
28
No
10
TV Show • 2010 Report
Yes
26
No
14
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
26
No
2
Movie • 1997 Report
Yes
24
No
6
3
saste12
No one is actually shown drowning or struggling to breathe, though it can be assumed many people asphyxiate by drowning.
Movie Report
Yes
23
No
4