Funeral Movies

A little girl and her inventor father celebrate the success of their greatest dream, on a day she will never forget.

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is a powerful story of the relationship between father and so. Amid emigration and war, John Doyle’s feud with...

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical,...

Nisse’s wife Leila has just died but he feels he’s done enough mourning. Friends and family are overrun by Nisse who just wants the...

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family...

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted,...

Laxmikant Kabadiya and his twin-sister, Prerna, started as mere beggars near Dadar Railway Station, and with the assistance of Vidyut Baba, they...

Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.

Grab a six-pack, gather your closest friends and settle in for a night of solace and cheer-and of course, a few Drinking Games. Joseph Lawson's...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar...

An exhausted and under-appreciated Dana Langley leads a funeral that doesn't seem to end.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.