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...

In a hospice, 38-year-old Nadine confronts terminal cancer with raw anger and reluctant acceptance. Struggling to bid farewell to her young son...

A palliative care doctor meets with a series of dying patients.

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...

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...

When touched by death, will you feel more alive?

Dying is usually a straightforward matter. Unless the will contains formal errors. In that case, the Institute for Short-Term Resuscitation for the...

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...

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...