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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (star of the Academy Award-winning The counterfeiters), is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager (newcomer Thomas Schubert) attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Craig stars in one of his earliest roles in this adaptation of award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters's literary debut. Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered; and who killed him.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
5) I Cannibali
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive state. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order. I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian),...
6) Suburbicon
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
7) Replicas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this suspenseful sci-fi thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife and children are killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist to help secretly clone their bodies. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences....
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are four cosmically bound friends in the fight for their eternity, alongside their former torturer, Michael. Michael, in a fit of panic, had relinquished his role as the Architect to Eleanor, so that she and the gang could help four new residents become better people. Unfortunately, the Bad Place doesn't exactly make their task easy, and its latest move places Chidi in a dire situation, putting his relationship with...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new chapter in the terrifying horror series is a chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French dialogue/multiple language subtitled version].
Language
English
Description
When Megan, a cop who is fresh out of rehab, takes the graveyard shift in the morgue at the city hospital, she faces multiple strange, violent events. The events are caused by an entity in the corpse of Hannah Grace.
13) The nightshifter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Stenio works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. He toils all night, but he's never alone, for Stenio can talk to the dead. And they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stenio unleashes a curse that brings forth danger and darkness.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary, Audrey is stunned when her husband tells her he wants a divorce and is in love with another woman. As if things couldn't get worse, Audrey awakens one night to discover her husband's dead body and becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation. With no one else to turn to, Audrey enlists herself as her own private investigator with a single mission, to solve the crime and clear her name.
15) The fog
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Hindi
Description
Death threats and facial disfigurement threaten to derail a beauty pageant, along with a corpse that keeps popping up at the most inopportune moments. Soon, two women must fight for their lives, using their wits to outwit the faceless horror.
16) Raising Buchanan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a desperate forty-year-old donut shop employee with anger issues steals President James Buchanan's corpse for ransom, she discovers that no one is interested in getting him back.
17) Night train
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While on a night train, three strangers discover a corpse and a box of diamonds. At first, the three scheme to ditch the body and split the fortune, until their greed and paranoia pits them against each other.
19) Dawn of the dead
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
The corpses of the recently-dead are returning to life & attacking the living, devouring their victims. Two members of the Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team & their friends land in a shopping mall occupied by the living dead. They secure the mall through brutal battles with the creatures, but can they escape both the bandits & the zombies?
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