Dying And Death Movies

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...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986. This powerful work explores the reason...

Are paranormal experiences real? Can being 'spiritual' help with the way you feel about death, dying and grief? This British film, from the...

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

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

An intimate portrait of New York artist Michael Anderson during the last year of his life. The film is structured by way of Roberto Bolaño's...

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

Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory. Since its founding in 1998, more than a...

When Gérard finds a dead raccoon in his front yard, the old man becomes strangely distressed, shaken by thoughts of his own demise. Jocelyne...

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...

The human being feels generally as fascinated as fearful before death and the inevitable fact of dying. Workers at the cemetery of Palma de Mallorca,...

In a surreal afterlife, a young man confronts his memories, regrets, and relationships as he revisits the moments leading up to his untimely death,...

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

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.

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

Life is a breath, a breath that while it is with us, always blows us around, allows us to do everything we do, live what we live.

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan Buddhist practitioners are able to forestall...