Bereavement Movies

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he...

When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and...

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.

Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are...

Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's...

Saddled with the grief of missing her late mother’s last phone call, Anna must choose what to do with the pregnancy that sparked their final...

On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he's...

Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a...

Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in 35 years. On the second floor window sill...

A physics teacher's obsessive dislike for Christmas is put to the test when a reservation mishap sends him and his family on a trip to Lapland, a...

Reverend Richard Coles opens up the conversation around bereavement, as he goes on a personal grief voyage and tries some unconventional activities...

Life is talking about silly stuff with the people you love.

Dying is a process and in a person's final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring...

What happens to a child when a parent dies young? Eloise's mum passed away when she was little. now, Eloise wants to reclaim her life, but that means...

In this tender story of connection between the dead and their loved ones, Jace and Bryan welcome newly passed Lina to the cemetery. Can they help her...

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects...

Having recently split up, Ezra and Frankie reckon with love, loss and life.

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more...

Hans had a tantrum, repeatedly shouting for his mother, which enraged his drunk father, who was about to hit him. Meta hid with her brother in their...