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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, art house, dark comedy, poetic ...
Plot:
fear of death, midlife crisis, mortality, aging, male protagonist, flirting, seduction, sexuality, retiring, regret, mature, character study ...
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe ...
Style:
medical drama, retro, realistic, period piece, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
medical, hospital, doctor, mortality, life & death, death, professional rivalry, birth, medicine, family drama, surgeon, medical profession ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's mother. Confused by the previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil. The incarnate persuades him to start a business where the ...
Style:
heartfelt, mythical, period piece, emotional, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mortality, afterlife, devil, supernatural, folklore, bittersweet, village life, family drama, magic realism, redemption, temptation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955
Place:
bavaria
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, melancholic, existential, life affirming ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, mortality, bittersweet, friendship, slice of life, deadpan, intimate, overprotective mother, small town, satire, urban, bureaucracy ...
Place:
oklahoma
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Appa, a veteran theatre actor who has primarily worked in adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, falls upon hard times in his old age.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
actor, mortality, aging, family drama, character study, tragedy, loneliness, theater, tragic hero, family problems, social problems, family relations ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
People say the true love lasts longer than life, but they don't mean it, and they are right: love ends when life does, except if it isn't.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
morgue, afterlife, death, ghost, supernatural, mortality, relationships, love story, male female relationship, supernatural ability, help, love interest ...
Time:
2020s
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177
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, melancholic, reflective, bleak ...
Plot:
monarchy, royalty, monarch, mortality, isolation, regret, manor, character study, palace intrigue, legacy, ghost, betrayal ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, independent film, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
construction worker, mortality, illness, cancer, working class, blue collar, aging, urbanization, social realism, humanism, realism, slice of life ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in which the doctor is the guide and the writer, his passenger, led to confront his own fears and ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, existential, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
life & death, mortality, fear of death, soul searching, character study, anxiety, intimate, acceptance, confession, regret, minimalism, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
paris france, france
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298
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, uplifting, sincere, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, older woman younger man relationship, musician, terminal illness, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, life & death, bonding, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
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107
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, poignant ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, family relations, best friend, friends, strong female presence, unfulfillment, siblings relations, cancer, dying, female friendship, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
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438
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, independent film, sentimental ...
Plot:
terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, cancer, death wish, suicide, family relations, life & death, mortality, national park, character study, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, grim reaper, death, afterlife, mortality, life & death, workplace, satire, angel of death, near death experience, supernatural power, supernatural ability ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her ...
Style:
romantic drama, tear jerker, emotional, heartbreaking, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
terminal illness, college life, tragic romance, bittersweet, mortality, romantic relationship, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, fall in love, love story, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, touching, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, terminal illness, dog, cancer, aging, mortality, introspection, character study, mature, fighting illness, fight, illness ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A dying father takes a road trip with his son to try to rebuild his relationship before he dies.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, desert, father, terminal illness, mortality, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, father son estrangement, father and son, last wish ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
A story about a group of funeral directors who will accompany the last few days of their clients' lives. It will use black humor to lighten up the topic of death and depict the departure stories of the deceased and their loved ones in a ...
Style:
dramatic, captivating, entertaining, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
death, mortality, life & death, dead man, dark humor, satire, humour, dead, funeral, funeral home, corpse, business ...
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Feature film.
Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
terminal illness, male friendship, mortality, bittersweet, last wish, escapades, satire, fighting illness, criminal, robbery, illness, dark humor ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
María and Javi are two lifelong friends. Even though they have drifted apart over the course of the last year, when María suffers an accident that leaves her at the verge of dying, they reunite and discover that they have always been in love. Now ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, semi serious, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, mortality, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, female best friends, fighting illness, friends, women, life, female protagonist, girlfriend, race against time ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, dark drama, psychological ...
Plot:
convention, euthanasia, mortality, funeral, moral dilemma, aging, regret, friendship, promise, bittersweet, taboo subject, funeral home ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always ...
Style:
medical drama, philosophical, emotional, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot:
mortality, travel, terminal illness, second chance, existential crisis, family drama, redemption, regret, identity, motherhood, self discovery, wife ...
Place:
miami, florida
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with ...
Style:
reflective, black and white, slow cinema, independent film
Plot:
elderly man, character study, mortality, aging, isolation, loneliness, memory, melancholy, nostalgia, greed, bittersweet, retiring ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Fannie Fairchild locked up her heart when her beloved George was killed in the Great War. But now she faces her own mortality and realizes that she has no one to maintain her grave with flowers.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, romantic drama, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
mortality, loss, loneliness, elderly man, intimate, bittersweet, acceptance, character study, aging, friendship, memory, compassion ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Go-hwan, who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease realizes that he is going to die. When his best friends ask him what his wish is, he tells them he wants to have sex for the first and last time in his life.
Style:
emotional, feel good, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, illness, teenager, als, friends, terminal illness, empathy, mortality, teenage life, problem, schoolboy ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fatally ill, Garvey thinks he has figured out how to die alone. But when his beloved wife Evelyn goes missing on their anniversary, he must live to save her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tragic romance, love, mortality, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, secret, family problems ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Style:
thrilling, emotional, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
funeral home, illness, funeral, mortality, terminal illness, male female relationship, teenage life, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, teenage protagonist, teenage girl ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Boss, an elusive bar owner living in New York, reunites with his estranged best friend, Aood, for a roadtrip in Thailand after Aood has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, road trip, bucket list, mortality, fighting illness, friends, loss, reconciliation, bittersweet, relationships, last wish ...
Place:
thailand, new york, southeast asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Style:
anthology, realistic, sad, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
death, newspaper, mortality, social problems, near death experience, life, ordinary people, slice of life, realism, intimate, social realism, urban ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A man plagued by misfortune and his ex, the unluckiest bride-to-be, are forced to accompany one another on the final journey of his life.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, poignant, road movie ...
Plot:
terminal illness, mortality, companionship, reconciliation, loneliness, regret, intimate, bittersweet, character study, redemption, travel, slice of life ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow ...
Style:
surreal, serious, teen, action adventure, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hell, haunted house, afterlife, metaphysics, fantasy world, redemption, catastrophe, mortality, danger, supernatural, eternity, life & death ...
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