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Children of Men(2006)

3.8/5 (with 3,288 votes)

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.

Philadelphia(1993)

PG-13
| 2h 6min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 1,920 votes)

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.

Stranger Than Fiction(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 995 votes)

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

The Barbarian Invasions(2003)

1h 39min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 161 votes)

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.

3 Godfathers(1948)

NR
| 1h 46min | Western
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

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.

There Be Dragons(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | War, History, Drama
2.5/5 (with 58 votes)

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.

The Wife(2022)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

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?

Other People(2016)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 86 votes)

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.”.

Tribute(1980)

2h 1min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

The Theory of Flight(1999)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

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.

Last Call(2009)

18min | Drama, Fantasy
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

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

El último canto del pájaro cú(2010)

14min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

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Afterlife(1978)

7min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Ishu Patel

The Face of Fear(1971)

1h 15min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Periphery(2018)

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

Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company(2005)

1h 52min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Allan King

Mirror Mirror(1996)

1h 25min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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

Dying at Grace(2003)

2h 28min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Allan King

Dream(1988)

11min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

The Forgettable Life of Liam White(2021)

1h 27min | Drama

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.

The Mirror and the Window(2021)

1h 32min | Documentary

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?

The Gifts of Grief(2023)

52min

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.

Splatter Disco(2007)

1h 27min | Horror, Comedy
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To(2007)

1h 20min | Adventure, Horror
3.6/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Papa(2002)

51min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died(1989)

2min | Animation

Clay-on-glass under-the-camera animated interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poem by animator Lynn Tomlinson.

Three Pages(2018)

15min | Drama

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.

How We Die(2023)

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.

Endless(2016)

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