Fists in the Pocket (1965), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005), The Body Snatcher (1945), Orpheus (1950), The Executioner (1963), The End of Summer (1962), Dead of Night (1945), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Death Theme movies.
Storyline: A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: gothic, psychological thriller, surrealism, black comedy, childhood trauma, mysticism, allegory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, independent film, female lead, entrepreneurship, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christian Petzold's drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Philipp, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Philipp's help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life...—fippi2000
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, german film, drama, mystery, surrealism, workplace, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Waldo Trumbull, an undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people in order to get new clients.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, black comedy, 1960s, graveyard, murder, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, spanish cinema, erotic, crime, absurd, female perspective, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story centers on Veronika, a woman in her mid twenties who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful and awakens in a mental hospital where she learns that she has only a short time to live. However in the hospital she meets people who are only 'insane' because they don't always follow society's rules. With little left to lose, Veronika embarks on a journey on which she frees herself to experience relationships and emotions and ultimately discovers what it means to live.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, depression, self-discovery, mental health, existentialism, meaning of life, emotional trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Katherine Coleridge (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) is a basically miserable and mentally unstable woman who is married to even-aged Isobel's father, Robert (Peter Whitaker), who is the only one willing to give Katherine the unconditional love that she craves lest her inner chaos should wholly consume her. For any kind of peace of mind, she is consequently entirely dependent on him. As, however, her husband dies (of natural causes), Katherine quite instinctively transfers her primal need for all-encompassing care to his daughter, Isobel (Juliet Stevenson). As this is a serious intrusion upon her and her boyfriend's private life, Isobel rejects Katherine, at first. She soon realizes that Katherine needs her attention more than her boyfriend, whom she then opts to leave, to go and live with Katherine in her father's countryside cottage. The last scenes of the movie, not to be revealed here, raises the question of who, after all, were the more needful of Isobel's love.—Tue Sorensen <jensb@mi.aau.dk>
Plot Keywords: drama, british film, 1990s, female director, adapted screenplay, family conflict, inheritance dispute ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story is set in a world where implanted microchips can record all moments of an individual's life. The chips are removed upon death so the images can be edited into something of a highlight reel for loved ones who want to remember the deceased. Caviezel portrays the leader of the organization that opposes this technology's development.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, futuristic, ethical dilemma, dystopian, artificial intelligence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Martin (deceased) is stuck in a dead-end job, welcoming the newly departed into the afterlife. All he dreams of is going 'Up There'. But his plans are thrown into disarray when he has to team up with the relentlessly chirpy Rash and together they lose a new arrival. The mismatched pair give chase and end up in a remote seaside town populated by cocky teenagers, sinister old women and the enigmatic Liz, who has 'suicide written all over her'. Can they stop bickering long enough to find the lost soul? Will Rash be reunited with his brother Chunky? And can Martin get back in time to finally get 'Up There'? UP THERE is a killer comedy about life, death and irritating friends.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, mystery, supernatural, psychological thriller, independent film, british film, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man's untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss.
Plot Keywords: independent film, american film, drama, realism, improvisation, documentary style, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just before telling his son, Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what was really important in life, Johnny begins to wonder if he's let life pass him by. With the funeral as backdrop, all of the Scanlans appear, each with an interesting situation. One of Johnny's sisters is divorced, but hasn't told anyone, the sister, who is a nun, is now into liberation theology and has an illegal immigrant with her, and Tony (Jayce Bartok) is fighting for control of his father's union. Johnny and Terry (Pamela Reed) (the divorced sister) think that they may have found true love in the chaos (though what Johnny's wife thinks of it is up for grabs) as Johnny tries to make some kind of sense out of the various strains in his family.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, american film, 1990s, black comedy, family bonds ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arcadia Lost tells the story of two teenagers stranded in rural Greece after a car wreck. Charlotte is a sixteen-year-old with a deep desire to find connection who hides behind a sullen disposition and her newfound sexual power. Sye is her recent stepbrother, introverted, intelligent, but forever at an ironic distance from the world through his camera and caustic wit. As they wander the dusty roads and staggering vistas of the Peloponnese, they come across the vagabond philosopher-drunk Benerji, an ex-patriot American who is an odyssey of his own. They reluctantly adopt him as their guide, and begin an adventurous journey toward the mystic waters on the sacred flanks of Mount Parnassus that takes them through a landscape both ancient and modern, forcing them to confront the truth of their past and the frightening, beautiful reality of their present.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, drama, coming of age, mystery, supernatural, allegory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by instering electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, fantasy, black comedy, puppetry, supernatural, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman.—<darmabum@li.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, 1960s, american film, jewish, new york, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kenji (Takeshi Kaneshiro) lives in New York City and spends his time hanging out with Fabrizio (Michael Imperioli) and Balzac Man (Jeffrey Wright), both of whom harbor artistic dreams but are chronic underachievers. Death (Mira Sorvino), who hovers around Kenji, tells him one day that he has 12 hours to live. He sets out to make the most of his remaining time and winds up having dinner with a famous artist (Ben Gazzara) and his girlfriend, Anouk (Kim Hye-soo), who steals Kenji's heart.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, independent film, existentialism, absurdism, art film, dreamlike ...
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