Funeral Movies

Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the...

Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really...

"Seven Days in Heaven" covers the 7 days of the Taoist morning ritual after the death of Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai). The movie examines the effects of his...

A woman attends the wake of a friend she knew as an infant.

When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize...

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express...

A Palanca-winning comedy about gay best friends for life John and Mark whose friendship is put to the test when one of them has a terminal illness...

Jimmy says his goodbyes.

Victor has a nice life in Madrid with his partner, José. However, after returning to his childhood home in the mountains of Bulgaria for his...

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism,...

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Part film, part baptism, in BLACK MOTHER director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises...

A narrative short film surrounding a rich man's funeral.

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted,...

Se-Young and her family are preparing to cremate her grandmother when they discover that her coffin has been mistakenly switched with another. As the...

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The film tells the story Hung, who was loved by his family as a child and lived in the protective arms of his parents. But the more the boy grew up,...

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.