Life after death movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant life after death movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, touching, captivating, atmospheric, thought provoking and philosophical films and TV shows about / with life after death, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, death, life & death, love, friendship, chase and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as life after death: The Discovery (2017), Sky Court (2011), Proof (2015), Purgatory (2017), What Dreams May Come (1998), Mary Magdalene (2018), Just Like Heaven (2005), Enter the Void (2009), Upload (2020), Soul (2020).
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List of life after death movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of ...
Style:
spiritual, serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
life after death, afterlife, spiritualist, reincarnation, self discovery, purgatory, supernatural, redemption, quantum physics, spiritualism, conspiracy, occult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, tibet
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, dark, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
suicide, afterlife, macabre, plot twist, alternate reality, life after death, science, self discovery, life philosophy, religion, dream, philosophy ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2017
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
Prosecutor Andrey and attorney Veniamin are friends who have a lot in common, but their work now and then puts them on opposite sides of the barricade. The peculiarity of their position is that the trials in which they participate do not take place ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating
Plot:
life after death, angel of death, attorney, court, friends, lawyers and clients, coworker, workplace situations, life & death, legal action, prosecutor, workplace ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A brilliant surgeon searches for proof of life after death.
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, family problems, uncover truth, unfulfillment, reincarnation, millionaire, research, life after death, medical, death, doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Mariya gets lost in the forest and under mysterious circumstances ends up in a purgatory haunted by demon, evil doppelganger and ghosts of her own misdeeds.
Style:
experimental, psychotronic, underground film, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
life after death, curse, ghost, death, purgatory, missing person, paranormal phenomena, murderer, demon, small town, religion, christianity ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
russia, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, redemption, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, destiny, metaphysics, hell, love, fantasy world, female artist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the Holy Land in the first century C.E., a young woman leaves her small fishing village and traditional family behind to join a radical new social movement. At its head is a charismatic leader, Jesus of Nazareth, who promises that the world ...
Style:
biblical, mysterious, costume drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
faith, baptism, belief, religion, christian, life after death, jesus, apostle, treason, religious, christianity, superstition ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, biblical epic, 1930s
Place:
jerusalem, xian
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style:
romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, unlikely couple, impossible love, love story, initially antagonists, destiny, supernatural romance, happy ending, heaven, doctor, female ghost ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, canada
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the future where humans are able to “upload” themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife, Nathan meets his early death and is greeted by Nora in his version of heaven. Follow the two as Nathan grows accustomed to life away from his ...
Style:
futuristic, romantic, humorous, light, funny ...
Plot:
virtual reality, virtual world, looking for sex, mysterious death, hi-tech, life after death, afterlife, love interest, murder, technology, love and romance, sex scene ...
Time:
near future, 2030s, future, 2020s
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls ...
Style:
3d animation, philosophical, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
jazz, self discovery, life, meaning of life, afterlife, acceptance, lifestyle change, life after death, following a dream, teaching the ways of the world, life & death, musician ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, tibet, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style:
romantic, humorous, touching, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
afterlife, death, heaven, destiny, life & death, fall in love, reincarnation, courage, courtroom, honest, life, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For thousands of years, evidence of life after death has eluded mankind. Science is about to change that. With the help of a physicist, a blind medium, and Thomas Edison’s final experiment, Brayden Taylor embarks on a quest to contact his deceased ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
quantum physics, religion versus science, afterlife, paranormal activity, physicist, medium, investigation, science, riddles and clues, uncover truth, physics, cosmos ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mitsuki (Tenka Hashimoto) and Yuya (Yukichi Kobayashi) become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. One ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, psychological, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
dream girl, japanese girl, japanese schoolgirl, taboo, teenage girl, chastity belt, teenage sexuality, japanese teenager, incestuous relationship, skirt, alternative lifestyle, sexy teacher ...
Place:
osaka japan, japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style:
surreal, melancholic, atmospheric, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
afterlife, surrealism, metaphysics, buddhism, cancer, spirituality, immortality, multiple storylines, death, love, alternate reality, obsession ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, tibet, latin america, europe, guatemala ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Style:
reflective, philosophical, emotional, black and white, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, relationships, gangster, twists and turns, destiny, disorder, prostitute, blonde, redemption ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, y2k
Place:
paris france, tibet, europe, france, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style:
dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Created by Ricardo Ghiorzi ("The Curse of Sanguanel", "Beyond the Grave"), HISTÓRIAS ESTRANHAS (Stranger Tales) is a suspense/horror/fantasy collection of eight segments produced by independent film companies and directed by the ...
Style:
anthology, mind bending, bleak, mockumentary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
life after death, vengeance, revenge, mysticism, murder, ghost story, chase, violence, evil spirit, morality, supernatural power, characters in danger ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
Style:
psychological, humorous, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
able to see the dead, father son relationship, life after death, ghost, life & death, dealing with death, death of father, supernatural, relationship problems, humour, funeral, catholic ...
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
afterlife, ethics, karma, death, paradise, utopia, self sacrifice, hell, deception, female protagonist, soul mate, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade magically springs to life with a secret world of witches and ...
Style:
spooky, entertaining, humorous, fairy tale, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, horror for children, adult
Plot:
halloween, magic, haunted house, witch, witchcraft, spell, magician, child, illusionist, medieval, paranormal, book of magic ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 50s
Place:
michigan, germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that ...
Style:
mumblecore, demonic, psychological thriller, spooky, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, cursed, pursuit, occult, parallel universe, spirituality, twists and turns, haunting, medium ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Redd, Evelyn and their son, Kane, find a strange door, bound in padlocked chains, standing upright in the woods. After installing it in their home, strange occurrences lead Evelyn to discover their town's long history of missing children who ...
Style:
demonic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
missing child, supernatural, portal, demon, spiritualist, cursed, nightmare, parent child relationship, uninvited guest, family relations, parents and children, desperation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, coma, afterlife, invisibility, out of body experience, ghost, regret, friendship, existentialism, family relations, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sincere, sweet, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
day of the dead, music, afterlife, musician, death, childhood, memory, boy, life after death, betrayal, life & death, dog ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
mexico, tibet, north america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the life of five interns in a hospital, who trys to find out what happens in the after life. The five makes an experiments. They drive themselves into a clinical death and bring themselves back to life. After the Experiment, they realize ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, hospital, experiment, supernatural power, danger, supernatural ability, power relations, experiment gone awry, hidden truth, doctors and patients, intern, life after death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
As a punishment for meddling in human affairs, an angel faces the impossible task of finding a soulmate for a cold-hearted ballerina.
Style:
dorama, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
true love, young love, forbidden love, unrequited love, childhood friend, love triangle, supernatural, angel, love, old friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect. In a love story that ...
Style:
sincere, romantic, touching, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, death, life after death, life & death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dealing with death, tragedy, impossible love, ghost, car accident, out of body experience, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story:
Rapport till himlen is a 1994 Swedish mini series directed by Ulf Malmros and starring Johan Widerberg and Lina Englund.
Style:
dark, crime drama, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death, ghost, supernatural, afterlife, macabre, murder mystery, serial killer, life after death, small town, justice, loss, investigation ...
Time:
90s
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