Dying And Death Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

The Lamalera village is located in a small volcanic Island, a poor, barren land, and they catch whales to eat. It is the only way for them to...

Horrifying certainty about the date of his death drives one man crazy.

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

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.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur...

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 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.