Funeral Movies

When Mahi's son dies in a car accident, Behrouz who has returned to Iran to sell his properties, attends the funeral. Their old romance catches up...

Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls...

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...

The film tells the story Hung, who was loved by his family as a child and lived in the protective arms of his parents. But the more the boy grew up,...

When Alex dies suddenly in a car crash, her loved ones fall into grief. But they are not the only ones who suffer, as Alex's soul is forced to linger...

The Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict...

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film...

For most of us a funeral is traditionally a modest, somber affair, but there are some families who are prepared to go above and beyond to ensure...

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

Yamamoto Senji fought against the Peace Preservation Law in the Diet. On March 5, 1929 he was assassinated by the right wing. A farewell ceremony was...

A documentary about a funeral director and her views on life and death.

At her grandfather's funeral Bella deals with the emotions of a loved one passing on, while her father Jack must face the debt that his father left...

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism,...

After the cremation of his father, Vincent and his family gather relatives in the back shop of the family butchery for a final tribute. Vincent...

In 2004 Sheldon Oberman, a Jewish storyteller from Winnipeg, passed away. At his funeral the presiding Rabbi said that Sheldon’s spirit was...

A Ford Mustang. A brother and a sister. Their grandmother. And a funerary urn.

A six minute film of the funeral of the murdered Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena, of which all has been lost, save for 17 seconds. Emilianos was...

"Seven Days in Heaven" covers the 7 days of the Taoist morning ritual after the death of Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai). The movie examines the effects of his...

Maria recounted the chronology of her father's death many times to the visiting guests.