Dying And Death Movies

It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out differently. It's not just because the divorced dad...

Marina Carrère d'Encausse lifts the veil on the intimate questions that preoccupy her as well as society at large: those related to the end of...

Sven, a private banker, is enjoying his holiday in Switzerland. Not far from his secluded mountain cabin, dodgy businessman Achim collides with...

A man learns to deal with the problems caused by the death of his powerful father.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.

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

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...

After discovering that his terminal illness is no longer manageable, Daniel leaves the hospital and wanders through landscapes in search of a final...

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

A crew on a remote construction site are plagued by a series of bizarre mishaps. As the incidents turn more and more savage, it becomes clear that...

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...

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such...