Funeral movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant funeral movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out clever, interesting, realistic, suspense, humorous and semi serious films and TV shows about / with funeral, death, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, culture clash, family relations, life & death, loneliness and runaway plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
funeral movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as funeral: Death at a Funeral (2007), Harold and Maude (1971), Charade (1963), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Friend Request (2016), Disobedience (2017), August: Osage County (2013), The Big Chill (1983), Eulogy (2004), The Frighteners (1996).

List of funeral movies

Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, light ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, dark humor, farce, secret, male nudity, sarcasm, corpse, novelist, secret lover, public nudity, blackmail ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london, seattle
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, suicide, funeral, older woman younger man relationship, eccentricity, misfit, old age, alienation, age difference, couples, cemetery, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place: california, san francisco, bay area, usa
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 7.8
 93K
Charade (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, atmospheric, rom com, exciting ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: spy, murder, funeral, investigation, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, love story, hotel, photograph, marriage proposal, police inspector ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1944, 60s, 1930s
Place: paris france, france, alps, europe, persia ...
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four Weddings And A Funeral is a British comedy about a British Man named Charles and an American Woman named Carrie who go through numerous weddings before they determine if they are right for one another.
Style: romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, funny, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, funeral, friendship, unrequited love, multiple storylines, wedding ceremony, love, love and romance, marriage, love story, hotel, divorce ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: england, scotland, london, united kingdom, europe ...
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 5.2
 29K
Friend Request (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
Style: cyber, slasher, demonic, psychotronic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: facebook, suicide, witch, social network, witchcraft, funeral, police investigation, college, social media, young adult, internet, spirit ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
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 6.6
 40K
Disobedience (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style: sexy, melancholic, depressing, romantic drama, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian sex, sex scene, forbidden love, infidelity, funeral, female nudity ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london, middle east, israel
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August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, black comedy, independent film, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, suicide of father, pills, addiction ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest ...
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 7.1
 45K
The Big Chill (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the ...
Style: weeping, realistic, cult classic, rom com, happy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, funeral, midlife crisis, group of friends, regret, suicide, relationships, reunited friends, yuppie, coming of age, outdoor sex, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s, 70s
Place: south carolina, middle east, usa
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Style: melancholic, suspense, atmospheric, serious, meditative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, lawyer, funeral, wild west, old west, small town, senator, cowboy, friendship, bully, romantic rivalry, election ...
Time: 19th century, year 1962, 1910s, 1880s, 1800s ...
Place: america
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 6.4
 10K
Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, absurd, clever, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family secret, funeral, family life, eccentric family, death in the family, sarcasm, family feud, parents and children, fall in love, generation gap, lesbian ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
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 7.1
 102K
The Frighteners (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style: scary, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, horror for children, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, serial killer, haunted house, dark humor, funeral, psychic, supernatural ability, violence, architect, car accident, death of wife ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1800s, 1950s, 70s
Place: oklahoma city, oceania, usa, california
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 6.7
 120K
Stoker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
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 7.7
 59K
Adam's Apples (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: priest, church, dark humor, religion, funeral, faith, belief, cynic, skinhead, neo nazism, neo nazi, prejudice ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, denmark, saudi arabia, indonesia
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, sincere, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, grief, love and romance, heroin, haunted by the past, coping, loss of spouse, funeral, drug addiction, childhood, character study, best friend ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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 7.4
 218K
The Judge (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Style: touching, sad, serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, small town, trial, jury, legal, courtroom drama, murder trial, homecoming, court, judge, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: indiana, boston, peru, massachusetts, usa ...
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 7.3
 448K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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 6.7
 93K
Backdraft (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, arson, corruption, fire, rescue, pyromaniac, investigation, firefighting, natural disaster, danger, rookie, disaster ...
Time: year 1971, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, chicago
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 8.0
 57K
Departures (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a ...
Style: sad, philosophical, thought provoking, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot: funeral, self discovery, father son relationship, pregnant wife, life philosophy, workplace, small town, character study, new job, small town life, classical music, musician ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, teen, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: high school, high school life, lesbian, blackmail, threat, gossip and rumors, haunted by the past, teenage life, murder, mysterious character, friendship, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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 6.6
 44K
Phantasm (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style: scary, cult classic, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, twists and turns, cemetery, funeral, small town, supernatural, mausoleum, hearse, murder, adaptation, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, 80s
Place: usa, southern california, california, oregon
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 7.9
 82K
Being There (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style: political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot: politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, usa
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 6.1
 476
A Violent Life (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: funeral, radicalism, nationalist, radical, murder, death, prison, violence, life is a bitch, criminal, confronting the past, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2017
Place: corsica
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who's recruited to help haunt a house.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, dark fantasy, gothic, surprise ending ...
Plot: halloween, ghost, surrealism, mother daughter relationship, haunted house, female protagonist, artist, train, mansion, priest, funeral, frenchman ...
Time: 2020s, middle ages, 21st century
Place: connecticut, new england, new york
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 7.7
 24K
Corpus Christi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s ...
Style: sincere, art house, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: catholic church, prison, priest, sex scene, grief, funeral, juvenile prison, fake identity, mayor, confession, cemetery, mourning ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: poland, eastern europe, central europe
Is relevant?
 7.8
 548K
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Style: entertaining, feel good, exciting, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: superhero, robot, friendship, heroes, revenge, good versus evil, young heroes, androids and robots, friends, boy genius, villain, inventor ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, 2030s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, tokyo, north america, california
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of ...
Style: epic, futuristic, action adventure, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: star trek, revenge, self sacrifice, midlife crisis, space opera, space station, planet, teleportation, trap, alien, birthday, space battle ...
Time: future, 23rd century, year 1982
Place: space western
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Death Becomes Her (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to ...
Style: dark comedy, satirical, gothic, clever, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: dark humor, immortality, love triangle, obsession, magic, death, fountain of youth, afterlife, satire, rejuvenation, zombie, potion ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1978, year 1985 ...
Place: california, persia, beverly hills, usa, new york ...
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The Loved One (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee ...
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, witty, surreal ...
Plot: funeral home, cemetery, hollywood, love triangle, funeral, parents and children, dark humor, family relations, actor's life, pets, artists and showbiz, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
 8.1
 57K
Paper Moon (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Style: road movie, sentimental, black and white, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: father daughter relationship, friendship, great depression, mischievous children, girl, tomboy, road trip, funeral, little girl, childhood trauma, bible, carnival ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place: missouri, kansas, usa
Is relevant?
 7.3
 25K
Uncle Frank (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Frank is a famous New York University professor in 1973 who left his small South Carolina town behind him and remained in little contact with his family, especially given his style of life and his relationship with his ten-year partner, the free ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, sincere, dark comedy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, male homosexuality, gay interest, uncle niece relationship, college professor, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, father son relationship, funeral, gay muslim ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s, 70s
Place: south carolina, hawaii, new york, southern usa
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