Movies Similar to Of the Dead

Considering the Ends(2020)

In 2016, videos showing the slaughter conditions of farm animals shocked the public opinion, who quickly forgot about them. With complicit gaze, Elsa Maury films a young shepherd’s relationship of co-dependence with her flock of ewes, which she must learn to slaughter under the best possible conditions.

Blood of the Beasts(1949)

An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.

Vleesverlangen(2015)

Ensuring Your Place in Hell(1990)

A shockumentary mixtape consisting of four videos taken off the internet. Includes a real grave robbing tutorial, an actual dark look in the inside of a mortuary, a man who delivers "just desserts" to his family and a hunting video for innocent small creatures.

The Hart of London(1970)

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

Christspiracy(2024)

The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world religions. A historical explanation of how the current global situation came to be.

Orozco the Embalmer(2001)

In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.

LaathetZwijnZijn(1998)

Short film made in response to public concern about the consequences of swine fever. The location is a slaughterhouse. A place where the dead pig is normal, where the pig becomes meat. This graduation film was awarded the Citroën Award and the Golden Flame in 1998.

Scapegoat(2020)

An aimless journey, where a trailer enters the bowels of a disappeared city, a black cat and 20 ° below zero.

Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt(2019)

An authorized stop-motion sequel to Jörg Buttgereit's 1993 movie "Schramm", called scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm, who was the centre of the feature film.

Herzog Ferrantes Ende(1922)

In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.

Bad Boys II(2003)

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Beyond the Darkness(1979)

A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Island Zero(2018)

A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.

Against the Night(2017)

A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

The Loved One(1965)

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.

The Castle of the Living Dead(1964)

Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford(1936)

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Strike(1925)

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Wicked, Wicked(1973)

Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel's detective, has no information as to the identity of the murderer. The only thing anybody knows is that the killer wears a strange mask and has a fondness for blonde women. As Ramsey tracks down a list of suspects that includes the hotel handyman, Lisa, the hotel's lounge singer, finds herself in danger.