Best "dead body" Movies of All Time

71 movies found (page 1/3):

Swiss Army Man(2016)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Fantasy, Adventure

3.5/5 (with 1,567 votes)

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Directed by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert - With Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Dano, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Richard Gross, Shane Carruth, Andy Hull, ...

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The Trouble with Harry(1955)

| 1h 39min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 359 votes)

When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town's residents secretly wonder if they are responsible, including the man's ex-wife, Jennifer, and Capt. Albert Wiles, a retired seaman who was hunting in the woods where the body was found. As the no-nonsense sheriff gets involved and local artist Sam Marlowe offers his help, the community slowly unravels the mystery.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers, ...

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Stoker(2013)

| 1h 39min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 1,000 votes)

After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Directed by Park Chan-wook - With Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, ...

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Jawbreaker(1999)

| 1h 27min | Comedy, Crime

3.1/5 (with 245 votes)

When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible conspire to hide the truth.

Directed by Darren Stein - With Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer, Ethan Erickson, Carol Kane, ...

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Hotel Rwanda(2004)

PG-13

| 2h 1min | Drama, History, War

3.9/5 (with 1,239 votes)

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Directed by Terry George - With Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, David O'Hara, Jean Reno, ...

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Krull(1983)

| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.0/5 (with 245 votes)

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

Directed by Peter Yates - With Kenneth Marshall, Freddie Jones, Alun Armstrong, David Battley, Liam Neeson, Francesca Annis, ...

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Hunter Hunter(2020)

| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 107 votes)

A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.

Directed by Shawn Linden - With Devon Sawa, Camille Sullivan, Nick Stahl

Green Room(2015)

| 1h 35min | Horror, Crime, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 1,183 votes)

A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

Directed by Jeremy Saulnier - With Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Joe Cole Lopez, ...

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Dog Eat Dog(2016)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 148 votes)

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Matthew Cook, Omar Dorsey, Paul Schrader, Louisa Krause, ...

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The Relic(1997)

| 1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 217 votes)

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Directed by Peter Hyams - With Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, John Kapelos, Audra Lindley, ...

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No Mercy(2010)

2h 5min | Crime, Thriller, Action

3.8/5 (with 70 votes)

Forensic pathologist Kang is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho, as the primary suspect. But when Kang’s daughter is kidnapped, a manipulative game begins between Kang and Lee, who holds secrets about the homicide case.

Directed by Kim Hyeong-jun - With Sol Kyung-gu

Cut Off(2018)

2h 12min | Thriller, Crime, Horror, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 100 votes)

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Directed by Christian Alvart - With Moritz Bleibtreu, Lars Eidinger, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Fahri Yardım, Enno Hesse, Barbara Prakopenka, ...

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The Man Who Never Was(1956)

| 1h 43min | Thriller, War, Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, ...

The Eyes of My Mother(2016)

| 1h 16min | Drama, Horror

3.1/5 (with 136 votes)

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia(2011)

2h 37min | Drama, Crime

3.7/5 (with 200 votes)

In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - With Yılmaz Erdoğan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Ercan Kesal, Fırat Tanış, Erol Erarslan, ...

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The Morning After(1986)

| 1h 42min | Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia, Geoffrey Scott, Rick Rossovich, Bruce Vilanch, ...

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Frozen Stiff(2002)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 21 votes)

The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.

Directed by Milorad Milinković - With Bata Paskaljević, Srđan Todorović, Nenad Jezdic, Nikola Đuričko, Sonja Kolačarić, Branislav Zeremski, ...

Magic(1978)

| 1h 47min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 106 votes)

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Houser, ...

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Sacrifice(2016)

1h 31min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

2.6/5 (with 93 votes)

Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.

Directed by Peter A. Dowling - With Radha Mitchell

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The Cement Garden(1993)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Directed by Andrew Birkin - With Andrew N. Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jochen Horst, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin, Sinéad Cusack, ...

Bloodsucking Freaks(1976)

1h 24min | Horror, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 49 votes)

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Directed by Joel M. Reed

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Vagabond(1985)

1h 45min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau, Dominique Durand, Jacques Berthier, ...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy(1955)

1h 19min | Comedy, Horror, Fantasy, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Peggy King, Richard Deacon, ...

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Taste of Fear(1961)

1h 21min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Directed by Seth Holt - With Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs

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De perdidos a Río(2023)

1h 38min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it seems. Mateo, "the dead man", has fled, his house is upside down and one of his ex-girlfriends is desperately looking for him...

Directed by Joaquín Mazón - With Pablo Chiapella, Esther Acebo, Carlos Santos, Fran Perea, Kira Miró, María Botto, ...

River's Edge(2018)

1h 58min | Crime, Drama

2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Haruna’s classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become intimate and Ichiro tells Haruna his secret. He found a dead body along the riverside. A new body is soon found.

Directed by Isao Yukisada - With Fumi Nikaidō, Ryo Yoshizawa, Shûhei Uesugi

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Five Across the Eyes(2006)

| 1h 35min | Horror

1.8/5 (with 10 votes)

On their way home from a high school football game, five teenage girls become hopelessly lost. When they stop to get directions at a desolate store, the girls are involved in a minor fender bender which leaves an unattended SUV one headlight short. Inexperienced and frightened that they'll get into trouble, the girls flee the scene of the accident and speed away down the dark and unfamiliar roads. As they blindly make their way across an area the locals call THE EYES, the girls are suddenly shocked to see one lone headlight appear behind them. As the driver of the damaged SUV begins one terrifying assault after another, the five girls will lose their innocence and possibly their lives in this brutal and shocking thrill ride.

Directed by Ryan Thiessen, Greg Swinson

The Deep End(2001)

| 1h 41min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 62 votes)

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

Directed by Scott McGehee, David Siegel - With Tilda Swinton, Goran Višnjić, Jonathan Tucker, Josh Lucas, Peter Donat, Raymond J. Barry, ...

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The Bell Witch Haunting(2013)

1h 31min | Horror

1.9/5 (with 20 votes)

The Robertson County Sheriff's Department has released footage found on the bodies of the Sawyer family's cell phones and video cameras. What was first thought to be a murder-suicide is now believed to be the return of a centuries-old demon responsible for America's most famous paranormal event.

Directed by Glenn Miller

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Tormented(2009)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Comedy

2.6/5 (with 61 votes)

Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.

Directed by Jon Wright - With Alex Pettyfer, Sophie Wu, April Pearson, Calvin Dean, Dimitri Leonidas, Tom Hopper, ...

Movies: Best "dead body" Movies

Swiss Army Man(2016)

The Trouble with Harry(1955)

Stoker(2013)

Jawbreaker(1999)

Hotel Rwanda(2004)

Krull(1983)

Hunter Hunter(2020)

Green Room(2015)

Dog Eat Dog(2016)

The Relic(1997)

No Mercy(2010)

Cut Off(2018)

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The Man Who Never Was(1956)

The Eyes of My Mother(2016)

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia(2011)

The Morning After(1986)

Frozen Stiff(2002)

Magic(1978)

Sacrifice(2016)

The Cement Garden(1993)

Bloodsucking Freaks(1976)

Vagabond(1985)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy(1955)

Taste of Fear(1961)

De perdidos a Río(2023)

River's Edge(2018)

Five Across the Eyes(2006)

The Deep End(2001)

The Bell Witch Haunting(2013)

Tormented(2009)

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