Five Days Without Nora (2008), Masaan (2015), Departures (2008), Still Walking (2008), Guantanamera (1994), And the Ship Sails On (1983), Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), Death at a Funeral (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Funeral movies.
Storyline: An aspiring Italian-American actor, Anthony (Vincent Pagano) is in for plenty of family drama when he brings his lovely African-American girlfriend, Alissa (Victoria Rowell), back home for his grandfather's funeral. Though race is an issue with some of Anthony's extended family members, there are many other odd topics that come to the fore, including his cousins' Mafia delusions. Luckily, Anthony's open-minded Aunt Lidia (Adrienne Barbeau) is on hand to help smooth things over.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, gangster, family, revenge, violence, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Dodd (Sir Michael Caine) was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over fifty years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died, he had a final request, "Last Orders", that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. This movie follows his mates, Ray (Bob Hoskins), Lenny (David Hemmings), and Vic (Sir Tom Courtenay), and his son Vince (Ray Winstone) as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy (Dame Helen Mirren).
Plot Keywords: drama, family, friendship, death, memory, journey, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and life will never be the same again.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, friendship, childhood, tragedy, death, first love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man around 40 is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them : a boy, Jumbo, aged 9 ; Francois, aged 30, and his sister Zaza, around 40. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished. How to keep on living after this ?—Yepok
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, comedy, family, death, inheritance, siblings ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... Find out how the rest of the family cope and see if the holiday will ever end.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, british, humour, children, holiday ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?
Plot Keywords: comedy, dark comedy, crime, biography, true story, drama, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, supernatural, cult film, independent film, nightmare, paranormal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In upstate New York, Jeannette (Pamela Holden Stewart), a divorcée, lives with her companion, Martin (Wayne Lamont Sims), an HIV-positive artist. Since Martin is gay and ill, the relationship they share is based on everything but sex. One day, Jeannette finds her estranged daughter, Sierra (Maggie Burkwit), on her doorstep with a new husband, Andrew (Darien Sills-Evans), hoping to get her hands on an inheritance. During their stay, secrets and lies are exposed.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, indie film, low budget, american film, psychological horror, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Journalist of Jewish descent in Berlin feels that he is a loser of the political changes in Germany after 1989. When his mother dies, he has to meet his brother to whom he has not talked for years and to meet all his other family members. But during the preparations for the funeral he plays a snooker-cup for paying his debts with the money for the victory, and many other things mixes up.—Benjamin Stello
Plot Keywords: comedy, jewish culture, family, german film, religion, inheritance, brothers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days.—Albert Sanchez Moreno <a.moreno@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: faith, hollywood, miracle, small town, movie star, media manipulation, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the 1970s, racial tensions erupt in a small Georgia town when a black lieutenant who died a hero in Vietnam is refused burial in the cemetery. Maj. Kendall Laird (John Lithgow) travels to Georgia with the body. He attempts to comfort the soldier's grieving parents, Luther (Morgan Freeman) and Ada (CCH Pounder), and convince the white townspeople the deceased officer deserves their respect. However, Laird is disturbed when he learns the true story behind the officer's death.
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, race, discrimination, military, honor, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie is a portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a portrait of the First Lady as she fights to establish her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that she created and loved so well.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, american, president, assassination, grief ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cocote is the story of Alberto, a garden worker who returns to his native town to attend the funeral of his father, murdered by a police. He finds himself attending religious services against his will. The story takes viewers to experience AfroAntillean spirituality and Dominican religious syncretism, bringing about reflects of intrinsic aspects of Dominican culture. In the film, the starring roles are by: Vicente Santos, Judith Rodríguez, Yuberbi de la Rosa, Pepe Sierra, José Miguel Fernández, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Isabel Spencer and Enerolisa Núñez (Salve singer).—edi gamson
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social, cultural conflict, religion, tradition, death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman, whose husband is cheating on her, and an undertaker, who has been in love with her since their childhood, decide to fake her death so they can be together.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, black comedy, british film, small town life, absurd, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 30's, in New York, the coffin of the leftist gangster Johnny Tempio is brought to the house of his older brother Ray for the wake of family and friends. Ray is a cold gangster that likes to read and is married to Jean. His brother Chez is a hot head that runs a bar and is married to Clara . Ray decides to revenge the murder of his younger brother and believes the gangster Gaspare is the one who killed Johnny. Meanwhile Chez has a breakdown with tragic consequences for the Tempio brothers.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, family, japan, violence, revenge, brothers ...
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