Dying Movies

Filmmaker Jon Alpert turns the camera on his own family in this intimate portrait of his aging father. As illness and declining vitality reshape his...

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...

On the last day of Earth, after their wedding, Noah and Leah will have to deal with never seeing each other again and accept the end of time.

A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in...

When touched by death, will you feel more alive?

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

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...

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...

Jayce, a queer man from the province, travels to Metro Manila to see his dying father for the first time. There, he meets Danny, a half-sister he...

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...

As is tradition, brothers Arian and Navid meet up one late night to cook a special meal together, but this time their meeting is going to revolve...

A SHOT IN THE FOOT depects hectic nocturnal routines of a young woman who works as an assassin. She is a quick and innovative killer, efficient at...

Two soldiers, Daniel and Jerome, flee a war we don’t see and we know nothing about. Jerome is badly injured, he will die, he says it, he knows...

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

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...

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

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

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