장의사인 아빠 해리와 삼촌 필, 정신이 혼미한 할머니와 함께 살고 있는 베이다는 늘 외롭다. 베이다에게 친구는 어리숙하고 수줍은 토마스 뿐, 아빠 해리는 베이다의 출산으로 아내를 잃은 후 가족들에게 조차 감정적으로 격리된 채 어린 딸이 소녀로 성장해가는 과정을 느끼지 못한다. 사춘기에 접어든 베이다는 국어선생님에 연정을 품기도 하는데, 이런 베이다에게 또다른 일이 생긴다. 아빠 해리가 미용사 셀리에게 관심을 보이기 시작한 것. 베이다는 셀리에게 질투를 느끼고 아빠를 잃은 것 같은 마음에 외로움은 점점 더해 간다. 게다가 토마스 마저 벌에 쏘여 알레르기로 죽자 베이다는 큰 충격을 받는다. 그제서야 해리는 엄마를 잃은 어린 소녀에게 아빠의 사랑이 얼마나 필요했던가를 깨닫고, 그간의 오해를 이해시킨다.
아들 매트의 암을 치료하기 위해 가족들을 데리고 코네티컷주로 이사를 오게 된 사라. 그녀는 매력적인 빅토리아식 새집에 얽힌 어두운 비밀을 가족들에게 감추지만, 몸이 약한 매트는 이사 첫 날부터 알 수 없는 존재와 집안에서 벌어지는 미묘한 변화에 시달린다. 가족들은 이런 매트를 단순한 약물 치료로 인한 환각과 스트레스탓으로 돌리지만 얼마 지나지 않아 마루 아래에서 죽은 자를 깨우는 강령술 사진들이 발견되면서 가족들은 걷잡을 수 없는 두려움에 사로잡힌다. 과거 이 곳에서 벌어진 어린 소녀를 영매로 한 소름끼치는 강령술 모임. 온갖 문자가 새겨진 시체... 과연 이들을 극한의 공포로 몰아넣은 혼령의 정체는 무엇이며, 과거 이 집에서는 무슨 일이 벌어졌던 것일까?
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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 Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.
A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlor when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company. This short animated caper puts the fun back into funeral as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale.
A man spends the night inside a funeral parlor.
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
A short documentary about the youngest female funeral director in the Netherlands. What's it like as a young woman working in an industry driven by older men and what's it like to be confronted with death on a daily basis?