Movies: Bereavement

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 alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wh...

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter....

A bereaved family is targeted by a sex trafficking ring during a trip to California....

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

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 some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss....

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 father and his sister....

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

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 competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother....

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 dead....

Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school....

Reverend Richard Coles opens up the conversation around bereavement, as he goes on a personal grief voyage and tries some unconventional activities that have helped others to live with loss...

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 tourist destination dedicated to Christmas and surprisingly near the North Pole....

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 begin to drive a wedge between him and his daughter, who needs him more than ever....

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

A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent...

A young widow tries to inhale her husband's ashes whilst struggling to come to terms with his death....

Families from across the U.S. discuss how they cope with loss and address common misconceptions about grief. Through candid personal stories and conversations with experts in the grief field, the film also presents ideas for how family and friends ca...

When Lyla - a lost and lonely 17 year old girl - meets Marion - a wise and elderly woman with a fountain of wisdom - in a cemetery early one Sunday morning, the two share an unexpected but life changing conversation. Made in association with Screen C...

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 mother's prayer room, trying to persuade Hans to leave, but he refused. Now, Meta must choose between...