Sudden death movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sudden death movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, touching, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with sudden death, death, couples, husband wife relationship, suspense, friendship, father daughter relationship, love and romance, funeral and redemption plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
sudden death
TOP 10 movies tagged as sudden death: Circle (2015), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The Complexity of Happiness (2015), Dead Awake (2016), Saturn in Opposition (2007), The Reef (2010), Inheritance (2020), The Last Picture Show (1971), Final Destination 5 (2011), All in a Night's Work (1961).
Best films
List of sudden death movies
60K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, talky, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, morality, twists and turns, execution, prejudice, suspense, plot twist, life & death, survival horror, struggle for survival, stranger, sole survivor ...
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136K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On a remote former submarine refueling facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Susan McAlester genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
shark, survival, laboratory, shark attack, dangerous animal, monster, scientist, genetic engineering, killer shark, creature feature, research, giant animal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car ...
Style:
feel good, funny, captivating, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
sudden death, changing lives, problem solving, problem, family business, coworker, lifestyle change, workplace situations, satire, employer employee relationship, business, workplace ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who is investigating in the mysterious deaths of people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they ...
Style:
scary, tense, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, creature, social worker, sleeping, nightmare, sudden death, paranormal investigation, rescue, death, loss, killings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, ...
Style:
sincere, talky, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, gays and lesbians, couple relations, lgbt, infidelity, family problems, introspection, terminal illness, dealing with death, dinner party, sudden death ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
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20K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
shark, survival, ocean, shark attack, killer shark, tourist, panic, creature feature, dangerous animal, boat, death, diving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, realistic, tense
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, tradition, sudden death, performer's life, unfulfillment, dealing with death, anniversary, death in the family, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, sheik ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
Style:
enigmatic, atmospheric, dark, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
family secret, dark secret, young girl, twists and turns, mind game, suspense, daughter, bribery, interracial romance, father daughter relationship, plot twist, death of father ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, older woman younger man relationship, friendship, teenager, high school, graduation, nostalgia, christmas, sexuality, high school prom, self discovery ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 70s, year 1952, year 1951
Place:
texas, usa, california, austin texas, oklahoma ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this fifth installment, Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to ...
Style:
scary, brutal, slasher, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, supernatural, characters killed one by one, death, suspense, premonition, destiny, a vision, psychic, torture, catastrophe, revenge ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine star in this sweet 1961 comedy about Tony Ryder (Martin), who takes over the duties of magazine publisher when his uncle dies suddenly, supposedly while spending time with a mistress. Worried that the news will ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
fall in love, mistaken identity, blackmail, extortion, veterinarian, publishing house, inheritance, sudden death, drowning, investigation, publisher, sexual content ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, erotic, disturbing, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
torture, sex, rape, obsession, libertine, sexual perversion, sexual abuse, sexual torture, brutality, kidnapping, fascism, atrocity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, working class, family problems, society, lifestyle, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style:
harsh, emotional, sentimental, brutal, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, minefield, nazi, teenager, suspense, prisoners of war, child soldier, beach, survival, war, childhood ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, future, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
denmark, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Style:
romantic, road movie, touching, sentimental
Plot:
teenager, heart transplant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, follow your dream, coping, life philosophy, social misfits, odd couple, escapades, parents and children, human relationship ...
Place:
utah, missouri, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Style:
dramatic, sincere, tear jerker, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
motherhood, spanish civil war, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, single mother, pregnancy, child, lgbt, lesbian, female photographer, life philosophy, friendship, breaking up with girlfriend ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, hairdresser, small town, homosexual, gay bar, retirement home, lgbtq, social problems, city life, social relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Style:
psychedelic, mind bending, psychological, non-linear, disturbing ...
Plot:
computer, video game, programmer, alternate reality, free will, time travel, twists and turns, flashback, psychology, male protagonist, mind, repeated scene ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Andrey, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
Style:
bloody, disturbing, brutal, humorous, tense ...
Plot:
brutality, bloody violence, father daughter relationship, revenge, held captive, criminal, farce, dysfunctional family, betrayal, unsupportive parent, bag of money, corrupt cop ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, futuristic, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
faith, disaster, apocalypse, climate change, forces of nature, chaos, save the world, race against time, heroic mission, supernatural, heroes, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, san diego california, california, usa, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Style:
sweet, romantic, psychological, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
death, love affair, couples, couple relations, fall in love, adaptation, love and romance, jealousy, destiny, love, youth, friendship ...
Place:
europe, paris france
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339
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the run, faith, haunted by the past, young love, homecoming, teenage boy, religion, childhood home, girl, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, disabled character, stepsister stepsister relationship ...
Place:
scotland
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3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
superhero, kidnapping, heroes, fighting crime, dishonesty, mysterious character, undercover, rivalry, escapades, vengeance, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1910s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
envy, marriage crisis, musician, travel, opportunism, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, artists and showbiz, love and romance, musician's life, politics, homecoming ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, cult film
Plot:
hypochondriac, family relations, midlife crisis, mortality, disorder, dark humor, friends, mental illness, down on your luck, doctors and patients, friendship, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This modernist musical about love and loss in Paris centers around a young couple, Ismael and Julie, who in the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sexy, sentimental, sexual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, lgbt, death, couple relations, love, polyamory, lgbtq, loss of loved one, wooing, gender, sexuality, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, art house, biting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, existentialism, relationships, adultery, prostitution, coming of age, hotel room, couples, female nudity, loneliness, love story, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo, europe, montmartre paris
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, judaism, arranged marriage, love and romance, family relations, matchmaking, moral dilemma, women's rights, society, introspection, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, belgium, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, culture clash, nothing goes right, society, immigrants, disorder, muslim, kurd, dark humor, misfit, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The basic premise is that Whitney is a really great guy who is considered too gentle, too friendly, and too genuine to be straight. Actually, he's straight, and he's madly in love with his girlfriend Taylor. Whitney has a best friend, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, workplace, couples, friends, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, boss and employee, family relations, parents and children, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois
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