לואדה סולטנפוס הצעירה יש אובססיה עם המוות - אמא שלה מתה, ואבא שלה מנהל בית הלוויות. חוץ מזה, היא גם מאוהבת במורה שלה לאנגלית ומצטרפת לשיעורי שירה בקיץ רק כדי להרשים אותו. תומס ג'יי, חברה הטוב, הוא אלרגי להכל. כאשר אביה של ואדה שוכר את שלי המאפרת לעבודה בבית ההלוויות ומתאהב בה, ואדה נסערת מאוד, ונשבעת להפריד בין זוג האוהבים.
סיפור אמיתי על משפחה הנאלצת לעבור לגור ליד מרפאה אשר מטפלת בילדם חולה הסרטן. המשפחה מתחילה לחוות אירועים על טבעיים אלימים אשר תחילה חושבים ההורים כי מדובר בלחץ הקשור במחלת הילד, אך הם מגלים מהר מאוד כי ביתם היה חדר מתים בעברו האפל.
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 man spends the night inside a funeral parlor.
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.
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.
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
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 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?