Dying Movies

A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

The owner of a fetish club finds out that, along with dealing with his wife who wants to leave him, his dying father, and the city wanting to close...

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

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

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

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

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...