Cemetery Movies

An exploration of memory after death.

In the 1830's emigrants from Salem, Massachusetts fled their satanic legacy and came to settle in LaSalle County,Illinois. They brought along with...

A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death...

On Parents’ Saturday, the ancestors’ memorial day, a mother and her son travel in an old Sedan. They have far to go: in a day they have...

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted,...

An enchanted cemetery in Berlin. Next to the Grimm Brothers' grave, stillborn babies and gay people rest in peace. This is the Garden of Stars.

A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.

Ceremony is a personal story about fathers and sons, and the overbearing silence which is passed down for generations. After the death of his...

From dusk 'til dawn, El Velador accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of...

A documentary that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a intimate and thoughtful walk through Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, better know as...

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their "chosen one" whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal....

A documentary profiling cemeteries and cemetery-related businesses and events across the United States.

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

Two brothers seek to repair their strained relationship while visiting the gravesite of their parents.

A group of film students decide to challenge their beliefs by exploring the supernatural. With the help of a family of experienced ghost hunters,...