Dying Movies

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

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...

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. The film...

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...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

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

As is tradition, brothers Arian and Navid meet up one late night to cook a special meal together, but this time their meeting is going to revolve...

A drama about Gavin, a recovering alcoholic, who ends up in a strangely familiar bar.

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

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...

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

Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother....

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

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more...

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...

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

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