Dying Movies

This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a...

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she...

Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.

Some 70 years after Jacob Burkitt snapped and killed his entire family, thrill-seeking teens crash the allegedly haunted Burkitt Manor to give their...

Janneke has been working as a volunteer in palliative terminal care for over twenty years, both in the hospice and in people's homes. In The Night...

Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother....

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

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and...

Clay-on-glass under-the-camera animated interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poem by animator Lynn Tomlinson.

Jessica has a lot on her mind before the work week begins.

A young finger puppet retrieves a lost letter written by her deceased brother while her parents struggle to cope with their grief.

Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying...

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film...

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life....

A big hearted community celebrates life by fronting up to death. Set against the stunning backdrop of the industrial seaside town of Port Kembla, a...

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

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