Alors que le monde est en proie à une menace terrifiante, un homme vit reclus dans sa propriété, totalement isolée, avec sa femme et son fils. Quand une famille aux abois cherche refuge dans sa propre maison, le fragile équilibre qu'il a mis en place est soudain bouleversé.
Su-Mi et Su-Yeon, deux soeurs, rentrent chez elles. Leur belle-mère les accueille mais Su-Mi l'évite volontairement et Su-Yeon semble en avoir peur...
Vincent est atteint du syndrome de la Tourette. Il vient de perdre sa mère et se retrouve ainsi face à son père avec qui il est en froid depuis quelques temps. Ce dernier craignant que son fils vienne compromettre sa carrière politique, il envoie Vincent dans une clinique spécialisée. Sur place, le jeune homme fait la connaissance de Marie, une jeune anorexique dont il tombe amoureux. Ensemble, ils décident de s'enfuir, entraînant malgré eux Alex, le colocataire de Vincent, qui souffre de TOC. Le trio s'embarque alors dans un voyage inoubliable, dont le but est de répandre les cendres de la mère de Vincent dans l'océan.
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Lorsque sa fiancée meurt des suites d'un rituel vaudou, le monde de Franck s'écroule. Refusant d'y croire, il se sert de sa passion pour la taxidermie pour embaumer le corps de son amie et la garder auprès de lui. Ayant définitivement perdu tout contact avec la réalité, et aidé par une inquiétante gouvernante, Franck va alors chercher une nouvelle amie. Une femme qui l'acceptera, lui et le cadavre de son ancienne compagne...
In a typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless 17-year-old high school outcast, lands an after-school job in Stan's cremation house and the two develop an unusual working relationship that quickly evolves into a partnership. As detective Matt Fairchild puts together clues from local disappearances, Stan must decide if protecting his newfound trainee is worth killing for.
Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.
Ottakolam is the exceptional tale of a man who makes a living by cremating the dead.
Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.
After the cremation of his father, Vincent and his family gather relatives in the back shop of the family butchery for a final tribute. Vincent announce to his family that he leaves for some time with his boyfriend Olivier.
October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother. An American military photographer, Joe O'Donnell, took a picture of the boy standing stoically near a cremation pit. No one knows the subject's name, but the photo has become an iconic image of the human tragedy of nuclear war. This documentary follows the continuing efforts to deepen understanding of the photograph, while exploring the fate of thousands of atomic-bomb orphans and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II.
In a culture where cremation is unusual, cemeteries fill up rapidly. In Latin America and in some other places, to solve the problem, remains are frequently exhumed. In Cuba, two year after interment. Relatives are invited to observe the little ritual. The music of the film is drawn from requiems from different periods. Twelve pieces by seven different composers are quoted. Together, they make up a traditional requiem, although only a few passages from the "dies irae" have been included, and other sections are slightly abbreviated.
Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral pyre that consumes a dead circus elephant shortly after its corpse has been unceremoniously dragged across a field by 50 carthorses.” (BFI)
This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in Banaras.
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.