Dying And Death Movies

n the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old son. This fic...

The lonely Charlie Bickle works in a morgue owned by the corrupt Dr. Dale Brodsky cremating bodies and lives with his crippled wife Mary. Dr. Dale ill...

Rhena's father tells a story about Atlas, a forest entity that whispers stories of the dead to its trees. That same night he disappears into this fore...

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,...

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion...

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

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 c...

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 to...

Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At wor...

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 their...

After a group of lumberjacks are brutally attacked by a grizzly bear, the sole survivor must fight to survive in a frozen wasteland while he slowly su...

"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 writing,...

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.

When tragedy strikes her isolated ranch family, Kate is forced to confront her trauma or be consumed by the creature it has created.

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 embark o...

Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, Jacqueline von Kaenel begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and discover...

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

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 as...

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of thi...