The work of one-of-a-kind funeral director Hayley as she help families make their personal farewells in her own unique way. Filmed over 10 months, the documentary tells the story of three families navigating loss - a daughter mourning the mother she never got to say goodbye to, a family burying their father a year after losing their sister and a woman in her 40s planning her own funeral.
A stylish exploration of funeral car history, sub-culture, and outrageous reactions.
Black Angels
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in a local funeral parlor.
Elvira had a fight with her husband, he went to purchase some cigarettes but he never came back, now Elvira is searching for him.
Kneading the back of an elderly man, Evie, the new masseuse at the Russian & Turkish bathhouse, finds her mind drifting from the steam room’s promise of serenity toward an absurd vision of grief.
Lúcio comes back home drunk and tired after a party late into the night and has a fight with his wife, Terezinha. Then, a butler shows up at their door to inform them Terezinha's mother has died.
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
A struggling funeral home owner boosts his business by murdering the older locals and profiting off their funerals. Released as a special feature on the "...And Then I Helped" DVD release from magGot Films.
An egocentric professional mourner reaps the consequences of his ambition.
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.
A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism.
Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.