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poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/561478/
78
/17428/
76
/7636/
4.3
/733828/
92
/253/
85
/39083/
84
/38/
cc age 15+

Children of Men (2006)
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
poster
79
7.7
/272078/
77
/6233/
77
/4519/
3.9
/200666/
83
/63/
89
/4674/
66
/21/
cc age 14+

Philadelphia (1993)
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/30847/
73
/471/
70
/390/
3.7
/11599/
81
/132/
88
/744/
70
/34/

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.5
/244184/
75
/6554/
72
/2458/
3.6
/169242/
73
/176/
85
/29389/
67
/35/
cc age 13+

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.8
/13001/
69
/674/
63
/216/
3.6
/22339/
88
/59/
79
/102/
67
/24/
cc age 16+

Other People (2016)
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
poster
75
71
7.0
/11516/
70
/220/
67
/201/
3.6
/8906/
88
/16/
78
/107/
82
/7/

3 Godfathers (1948)
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
poster
67
6.6
/2802/
55
/20/
62
/43/
3.2
/629/
45
/20/
56
/32/
48
/15/

The Theory of Flight (1999)
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
poster
60
6.2
/897/
58
/9/
51
/8/
3.2
/353/
52
/201/

Tribute (1980)
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
poster
Kanopy
48
6.2
/100970/
67
/5691/
61
/2275/
2.6
/22381/
27
/119/
43
/1374/
40
/30/
cc age 15+

3 Days to Kill (2014)
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
39
5.7
/5273/
64
/175/
50
/138/
2.8
/997/
13
/40/
54
/121/
33
/19/

There Be Dragons (2011)
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
poster
74
15
7.3
/89/
80
/4/
69
/7/
3.7
/996/

The Cu Bird's Last Song (2010)
Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' missed opportunities.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
14
8.2
/459/
74
/11/
76
/7/
4.0
/594/
96
/5/

Dying at Grace (2003)
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 film crew.
poster
53
12
5.5
/326/
52
/14/
46
/6/
3.1
/927/

Night Silence (2024)
A theatre actor whose health is failing gets admitted to a nursing home. Soon, he starts having nightmares that seemingly become deceptively real. The so-called nightmares were able to make him live in two parallel dimensions.
poster
59
8
6.0
/231/
62
/15/
50
/10/
3.3
/287/

Anxiety (2023)
A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's law firm. The women embark on their first first trip in many years. It quickly turns out that one of them is terminally ill and her destination is Switzerland, where euthanasia is possible.
poster
?
8.7
/8/

Dignitas - Death on Prescription
Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory. Since its founding in 1998, more than a thousand people have traveled to Zurich to end their lives with the help of the organization Dignitas. "Dignitas - Death on Prescription" is a documentary about an organization that provides people with terminal and incurable illnesses, intense unrelenting pain, and depression with a peaceful death. The organization's founder, lawyer Ludwig Minelli, is often the target of insults, especially from politicians, despite the fact that most Swiss citizens support the option of medically assisted suicide.
poster
?
7.3
/15/

Clouds are Made of Rain (2025)
In a hospice, 38-year-old Nadine confronts terminal cancer with raw anger and reluctant acceptance. Struggling to bid farewell to her young son Dexter and a life unfinished, she navigates the weight of mortality. Bonds with fellow patients, like the vibrant Marion, offer solace amid pain and humor. Through fleeting moments of joy and sorrow, Nadine learns to let go, finding peace in life’s fragile beauty. Inspired by real hospice experiences, Benjamin Kramme’s touching debut captures the emotional turbulence of dying and the enduring light of human connection.
poster
?
100
/2/

Ghorme Sabzi (2024)
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 around something completely different, as Navid asks his brother a favour that will change his life forever.
poster
?
80
/1/

Dying to live (2023)
N/A
poster
Kanopy
?
7.7
/20/
70
/3/

Tender (2014)
A big hearted community celebrates life by fronting up to death. Set against the stunning backdrop of the industrial seaside town of Port Kembla, a feisty and resilient community group have determined to take back the responsibility that most of us leave to someone else — to care for their own dead. Scattered throughout are stories that cut to the core revealing why this small band have decided to take on a practice that for most is taboo. As their plans for community-based funerals gather momentum one of their own is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Tender is at once a heartbreakingly beautiful and beautifully funny glimpse of an extraordinary community taking on one of the most essential challenges of human life … its end.
poster
53
?
5.2
/209/
60
/8/
48
/5/

The Wife (2022)
A couple's marriage gets tainted as the husband cheats. How can the wife take her husband's dying plea to be with her and his mistress at the remaining days of his life?
poster
?
6.2
/73/
60
/5/
59
/9/

Dream (1988)
Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.
poster
?
5.9
/80/
35
/2/
57
/6/

The Face of Fear (1971)
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
8.4
/50/
85
/2/

The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that his cancer has returned. Resigned to the fact that his life will soon come to an end, he begins a journey of reflection as he comes to grips with his life thus far and the people who shaped him, for better and worse.
poster
?
6.3
/21/
60
/1/
64
/5/

The Virgin Soldier (2016)
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 it, he is afraid. Then Jerome confesses to Daniel his last will: he does not want to die a virgin, he wants to die loved…
poster
38
?
4.1
/267/
40
/7/
20
/4/
50
/5/

Splatter Disco (2007)
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 his club, he now has to deal with a psycho killer that's offing his employees and patrons.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
?
7.6
/191/
68
/8/
69
/7/
3.7
/229/
100
/2/

Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
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 opens on Claire's birthday, she's 89; Max, a tiny cheerful man, is her close friend. Rachel is lonesome, missing her son, complaining he rarely visits. Ida relies on memory for her solace. Helen has no memory and doesn't recognize her daughter; her moods swing. Murray keeps his cap on and likes women. Staff members bring medication, provide care, and offer small talk. Memory is fleeting: Claire re-experiences the death of a close companion several times, each time without remembering her previous grieving. Lives are circumscribed
poster
?
36
/3/

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (1989)
Clay-on-glass under-the-camera animated interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poem by animator Lynn Tomlinson.
poster
?
7.8
/17/
30
/1/

Three Pages (2018)
An unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live. Rather than tell everyone, Martin determines to learn the three pages of a Bach adagio for piano he'd abandoned as a child. That accomplished, he performs the piece for his wife and friends, completing his life and thanking those who brightened it along the way.
poster
?
60
/1/
60
/1/

Papa (2002)
This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life.
poster
?
8.6
/44/
55
/2/
59
/4/

Mirror, Mirror (1996)
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
poster
48
?
4.5
/168/
45
/4/
56
/4/

It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To (2007)
Some 70 years after Jacob Burkitt snapped and killed his entire family, thrill-seeking teens crash the allegedly haunted Burkitt Manor to give their friend Sara (Adrienne Fischer) a spooky surprise for her 18th birthday. But as the night drags on -- and her friends start dying off, one by one -- Sara begins to realize that an unspeakable evil is throwing her a killer party. Alicia Kenney and Oliver Lucach co-star.
poster
68
?
6.8
/222/
70
/2/
60
/6/
3.6
/533/

Afterlife (1978)
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 some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Film without words.
poster
56
?
6.2
/219/
71
/7/
36
/5/

Last Call (2009)
A drama about Gavin, a recovering alcoholic, who ends up in a strangely familiar bar.
poster
?
62
/40/

Endless (2016)
A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.
poster
?

Winter Hymns
A palliative care doctor meets with a series of dying patients.
poster
?

Static Moon (2025)
When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the moment when the light goes out.
poster
?

Happy Monday (2025)
Jessica has a lot on her mind before the work week begins.
poster
?

Can You Hear Me? (2024)
Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother. Originally titled, "Severe Decline."
poster
?

A SHOT IN THE FOOT (2025)
A SHOT IN THE FOOT depects hectic nocturnal routines of a young woman who works as an assassin. She is a quick and innovative killer, efficient at her job. But she grows careless as she parties hard and gives in to the thrill of money, exposing herself to the dangers of LA’s underground. She gets sloppy, but the jobs keep coming, and there is no one except herself to clean up the mess she leaves behind.
poster
?

De nachtwaker (2024)
Janneke has been working as a volunteer in palliative terminal care for over twenty years, both in the hospice and in people's homes. In The Night Watchman we see Janneke both in her daily life and while waking. Scenes in which surprising parallels and paradoxes show Janneke's position in her life and how they seem to embrace death at first sight.
poster
?

How We Die
Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and our relationship with our bodies once they are no longer ours.
poster
?

Pyre (2023)
Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.
poster
?

Dertien Dagen (2022)
N/A
poster
?

The Gifts of Grief (2005)
A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.
poster
?

The Mirror and the Window (2021)
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 him to film them during this final phase of their lives—Gina in her apartment in Mexico City, Danniel in a Dutch restaurant where he feels at home. What stories do they want to leave behind?
poster
?

Periphery (2018)
A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.
poster
?

I Must Be Going (2020)
A young finger puppet retrieves a lost letter written by her deceased brother while her parents struggle to cope with their grief.


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