Dying And Death Movies

As a soccer star back in the day, Eugenio used to be known as “The Gazelle” for his speed and dexterity in the field. He retired young,...

Twenty years after a beloved local fisherman, Richie Madeiras, goes missing off the shores of Martha's Vineyard, a distant cousin locates Richie's...

After an unsuccessful goose hunt, a young girl grapples with seeing her father in a new light.

Details fade from the mind, just like memories. Clarity in memory becomes blurred, and our bodies are the marked spaces once inhabited by others....

In 1974, a soldier, having now returned home, is haunted by shadows from the past, but are they just in his mind?

A woman wakes up next to her dead husband. She refuses the fact that he is dead and pretends to her family that he's still alive.

This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life.

Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.

For most of us a funeral is traditionally a modest, somber affair, but there are some families who are prepared to go above and beyond to ensure...

A man seeks help in planning his funeral from a surprisingly experienced consultant.

As Sid returns home from his lover Andrew's funeral, he flips on the radio to find the DJ announcing Andrew's call in request for the song from weeks...

A son, recently discovering he has passed away, must bargain with an angel to ensure his father’s admittance to Heaven - not Hell.

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic...

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...

The narration of a letter which consists of themes such as the passing of time, the unexpectedness of life, the fear of death, and the fear of change.

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family...

A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart...

How well do we really know our parents? And their youth? Do we simply have a vague idea of who they are, and were, before they had us? Cécile...