Dying Movies

A drama about Gavin, a recovering alcoholic, who ends up in a strangely familiar bar.

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...

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...

When touched by death, will you feel more alive?

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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