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Theme: Death Personified

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)

3 June 199916 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

World’s Greatest Liar’s Absurdist Adventures

Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Eric Idle, …
Category: Fantasy

Afterwards (2008)

21 January 201323 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Messenger of Death

Director: Gilles Bourdos
Actors: Romain Duris, John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly, Pascale Bussieres
Category: Fantasy

All That Jazz (1979)

11 May 199925 September 2024

Rating: ★★

Dance Choreographer’s Self-Analysis/Angel of Death

Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, …
Category: Fantasy

Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

5 September 202029 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Time-Travelling Slackers Reach Middle-Age

Director: Dean Parisot
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, …
Category: Science Fiction

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

1 June 20015 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Slackers in the Afterlife

Director: Peter Hewitt
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, …
Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

The Book Thief (2013)

16 May 201424 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Growing Up in Nazi Germany/Death Personified

Director: Brian Percival
Actors: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (1938)

7 April 200119 April 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Miser’s Redemption

Director: Edwin L. Marin
Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Ann Rutherford, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (2009)

14 November 20095 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Miser’s Redemption/Animation

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, …
Category: Fantasy

Click (2006)

21 June 200623 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Remote Control to Life Comedy

Director: Frank Coraci
Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Kate Beckinsale, David Hasselhoff, …
Category: Fantasy

Collateral Beauty (2016)

9 April 20174 May 2020

Rating: 0­

Inspirational Drama/Fantastic Twist

Director: David Frankel
Actors: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, …
Category: Fantasy

The Colour of Magic (2008)

11 January 200923 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

Director: Vadim Jean
Actors: David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, David Bradley, …
Category: Fantasy

Death Note (2006)

17 August 20071 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Notebook with Killing Powers

Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Takeshi Kaga, Shido Nakamura, …
Category: Horror

Death Note (2017)

2 September 20171 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Notebook with Killing Powers

Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, …
Category: Horror

Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

17 August 20071 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Notebook with Killing Powers

Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda, Takeshi Kaga, …
Category: Horror

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

28 September 20162 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Death Takes on Human Form

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Fredric March, Kent Taylor, Henry Travers, Gail Patrick, …
Category: Fantasy

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

17 April 19996 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Writer’s Self-Analysis Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Judy Davis, Demi Moore, …
Category: Fantasy

Destiny (1921)

20 December 200127 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Death Incarnates Lovers Throughout History

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Lil Dagover, Bernhard Goetzke
Category: Fantasy

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

11 January 200331 January 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Satanism/Hammer Film

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, …
Category: Horror

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)

15 February 200020 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Michael Gough, …
Category: Horror

Extraordinary Tales (2015)

4 November 20157 August 2022

Rating: ★★★

Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe Stories/Animation

Director: Raul Garcia
Actors: Stephen Hughes, Cornelia Funke, Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, …
Category: Horror

Final Destination (2000)

19 March 200025 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Precognition/Doomed Air Crash Survivors

Director: James Wong
Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott, Chad E. Donella, …
Category: Horror

Final Destination 2 (2003)

28 June 200325 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Precognition/Doomed Car Crash Survivors

Director: David R. Ellis
Actors: A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, Ali Larter, Jonathan Cherry, …
Category: Horror

The Final Destination (2009)

10 February 201025 June 2025

Rating: ★

Precognition/Doomed Accident Survivors

Director: David R. Ellis
Actors: Bobby Campo, Shantel vanSanten, Mykelti Williamson, Krista Allen, …
Category: Horror

Final Destination 3 (2006)

21 June 200625 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Precognition/Doomed Rollercoaster Crash Survivors

Director: James Wong
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Amanda Crew, …
Category: Horror

Final Destination 5 (2011)

12 August 201128 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Precognition/Doomed Bridge Collapse Survivors

Director: Steven Quale
Actors: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, …
Category: Horror

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

28 June 202528 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Precognition/Descendants of a Doomed Survivor

Director: Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein
Actors: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Rya Kihlshedt, Teo Briones, …
Category: Horror

Ghost Ship (2002)

27 February 20036 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted Ship

Director: Steve Beck
Actors: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard, …
Category: Horror

Good Omens (2019)

14 June 20194 September 2022

Rating: ★★½

Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy

Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Actors: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck, Jack Whitehall, …
Category: Fantasy

Grey Skies: The Alien Conspiracy (2001)

17 January 200121 May 2021

Rating: ★★½

Alien Invasion Anthology

Director: Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Les Sekely, Thomas Nondorf
Category: Science Fiction

Hogfather (2006)

15 June 200812 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

Director: Vadim Jean
Actors: Marc Warren, David Jason, Joss Ackland, Michelle Dockery, …
Category: Fantasy

Inferno (1980)

17 February 20004 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Witchcraft Murders

Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoeff, …
Category: Horror

The Kingdom: Exodus (2022)

11 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Bødil Jorgensen, Lars Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, …
Category: Horror

L: Change the World (2008)

19 January 200918 April 2024

Rating: ★★

Death Note Spinoff

Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Kenichi Matsuyama, Youki Kudoh, Mayuko Fukuda, Masanobu Takashima, …
Category: Horror

Last Action Hero (1993)

6 January 200223 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Adventures Inside the Movie Screen/Action Movie Parody

Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance, Austin O'Brien, Robert Prosky, …
Category: Fantasy

Liza, The Fox-Fairy (2015)

5 February 201631 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Hungarian Black Comedy/Woman and Her Jealous Ghost Companion

Director: Karoly Ujj Meszaros
Actors: Moni Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai, Piroska Molnar
Category: Fantasy

Love and Death (1975)

18 March 200322 April 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Russian Literature Screwball Parody

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Olga Georges-Picot, …
Category: Fantasy

Macario (1960)

27 November 20132 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Death Gifts a Peasant Healing Water

Director: Roberto Gavaldon
Actors: Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Jose Luis Jimenez, Eduardo Fajardo
Category: Fantasy

Masque of Red Death (1989)

1 June 20007 August 2022

Rating: ★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Larry Brand
Actors: Adrian Paul, Patrick MacNee, Maria Ford
Category: Horror

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

9 February 20006 January 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Jane Asher, Hazel Court, Patrick Magee, …
Category: Horror

Meet Joe Black (1998)

16 July 199923 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Death Falls in Love

Director: Martin Brest
Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, …
Category: Fantasy

Monkeybone (2001)

23 February 200113 October 2023

Rating: ★★½

Cartoonist in the Afterlife

Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan, …
Category: Fantasy

Monstersdotcom (2003)

31 December 200310 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Andy Kumpon, Wayne Spitzer, Chris Mack
Actors: Andy Kumpon, Sara Roucloux
Category: Horror

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

1 June 200110 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Absurdist Comedy Skits

Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
Actors: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, …
Category: Fantasy

On Borrowed Time (1939)

30 March 200230 December 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Man Captures Death

Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers, …
Category: Fantasy

Orphee (1950)

2 September 200314 May 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Modernised Greek Myth

Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Edouard Dermithe, Marie Dea
Category: Fantasy

Ouija Shark 2 (2022)

27 March 202527 March 2025

Rating: 0­

Gonzo Killer Shark Film

Director: John Migliore
Actors: John Migliore, Deborah Jayne Reilly Smith, Kylie Gough, Simon Wheeldon, …
Category: Horror

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

24 November 201417 August 2023

Rating: ★★★

Death’s Carriage Driver

Director: Victor Sjöström
Category: Fantasy

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

19 February 202419 February 2024

Rating: ★★★

Backstage at a Radio Variety Show

Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, …
Category: Fantasy

Reeker (2005)

9 May 20175 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Hunted by an Unearthly Creature

Director: Dave Payne
Actors: Devon Gummersall, Scott Whyte, Tina Illman, Derek Richardson, …
Category: Horror

Scrooged (1988)

1 June 200426 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Modernised A Christmas Carol

Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, …
Category: Fantasy

The Seventh Seal (1957)

20 January 200111 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Death Incarnate

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson, Åke Fridell, …
Category: Fantasy

The Silent Flute (1978)

19 June 200014 May 2024

Rating: ★

Zen Quest

Director: Richard Moore
Actors: Jeff Cooper, David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Eli Wallach, …
Category: Fantasy

Sinister Squad (2016)

23 December 201614 March 2025

Rating: ½

Team-Up Between Fairytale Villains

Director: Jeremy M. Inman
Actors: Johnny Del Riaz, Christina Licciardi, Lindsay Sawyer, Talia Davis, …
Category: Fantasy

Six-String Samurai (1998)

1 June 19993 June 2023

Rating: ★★½

Post-Holocaust Rock’n’Roll Samurai

Director: Lance Mungia
Actors: Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Lex Lang, John Sakisian
Category: Science Fiction

Tamala 2010 (2002)

29 July 20047 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Demented Anime/Girl Cat’s Space Adventures

Director: t.o.L.
Category: Science Fiction

Too Tired to Die (1998)

24 February 20015 May 2025

Rating: ★★★

Personified Death/Indie Comedy

Director: Wonsuk Chin
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mira Sorvino, Michael Imperioli, Ben Gazzara, …
Category: Fantasy

The Watch (2020)

3 September 202111 December 2023

Rating: ★

Terry Pratchett Adaptation

Director: Craig Viveiros, Brian Kelly, Emma Sullivan
Actors: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett, …
Category: Fantasy

Watership Down (1978)

7 April 20036 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Animation/Talking Rabbit Quest

Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham-Cox, Zero Mostel, …
Category: Fantasy

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