Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "embalming"

1. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.

Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 149,712

2. The Mummy (2017)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

An ancient Egyptian princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Director: Alex Kurtzman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe

Votes: 206,485 | Gross: $80.10M

3. My Girl (1991)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 89,033 | Gross: $59.85M

4. My Girl 2 (1994)

PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Vada Sultenfuss must go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil to do some research on her mother's life, but finds much more.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien

Votes: 20,939 | Gross: $17.36M

5. The Mummy (1959)

Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne

Votes: 11,024

6. Tideland (2005)

R | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer

Votes: 34,704 | Gross: $0.07M

7. Elvis and Anabelle (2007)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance

Dying after being crowned Miss Texas Rose, Anabelle comes alive just before Elvis embalms her. He does his ailing dad's work. Anabelle later returns to the embalmer's farm to get away from her mom and be happy.

Director: Will Geiger | Stars: Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 5,954

8. Love Object (2003)

R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

Kenneth is a socially awkward office worker who has little experience with romance. He buys a life-like sex doll in an attempt to rid him of his loneliness, but soon finds there may be a dark side to 'Nikki'.

Director: Robert Parigi | Stars: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Rip Torn

Votes: 3,748

9. I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.

Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: Max Records, Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Christina Baldwin

Votes: 15,924

10. Crazy Desires of a Murderer (1977)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A rich girl invites a few of her friends, including one she befriended during a recent trip to Asia, to her family manor to spend the weekend. Soon, someone gets horribly killed, and secrets and dark desires begin to unravel.

Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Corrado Gaipa, Roberto Zattini, Isabelle Marchall, Annie Carol Edel

Votes: 538

11. Kissed (1996)

R | 78 min | Drama, Romance

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Director: Lynne Stopkewich | Stars: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Natasha Morley

Votes: 3,997 | Gross: $0.47M

12. Mortuary (I) (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Dan Byrd, Denise Crosby, Stephanie Patton, Alexandra Adi

Votes: 6,258

13. Traces of Death (1993 Video)

Unrated | 78 min | Documentary, Horror

Traces of Death is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage, notorious for its pointless exploitative content. In its opening you see the death of a woman named Maritza ... See full summary »

Stars: Damon Fox, Maritza Martin Munoz, Emilio Nunez, James Vance

Votes: 844

14. Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Rachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons

Votes: 4,067

15. You Kill Me (2007)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hitman befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina

Votes: 18,978 | Gross: $2.43M

16. The Game of Their Lives (2005)

PG | 101 min | Drama, History, Sport

Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 U.S. soccer team, who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no U.S. team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Wes Bentley, Gerard Butler, Gavin Rossdale, Jay Rodan

Votes: 3,527 | Gross: $0.38M

17. Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

R | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mike travels through time and dimensions to find the Tall Man's origins.

Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout

Votes: 8,444

18. Love Me Deadly (1972)

Unrated | 95 min | Horror

A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

Director: Jacques Lacerte | Stars: Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone, Timothy Scott

Votes: 673

19. Wicked, Wicked (1973)

PG | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast... See full summary »

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady

Votes: 684

20. Under the Tree (2017)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Stars: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann

Votes: 5,467 | Gross: $0.07M

21. The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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

Directors: Warren Kiefer, Luciano Ricci | Stars: Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Philippe Leroy, Mirko Valentin

Votes: 1,164

22. The Milk of Sorrow (2009)

94 min | Drama, Music

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ... See full summary »

Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón

Votes: 7,352 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Miss Leslie's Dolls (1973)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young college professor and three of her students seek shelter during a storm in the rural farmhouse of a strange woman who collects lifelike mannequins.

Director: Joseph G. Prieto | Stars: Salvador Ugarte, Terri Juston, Marcelle Bichette, Kitty Lewis

Votes: 230

24. Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2016)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Biography

Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington - Britain's most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s.

Director: Simon Sheridan | Stars: Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Dudley Sutton, Pat Astley

Votes: 422

25. The Masseur (2005)

Unrated | 76 min | Drama

Iliac works in a massage parlor where the gay clients are given more than a shoulder kneading and back rub. When Iliac's father dies he must reconcile his job as a sex worker with the rest of his family.

Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Coco Martin, Jaclyn Jose, Alan Paule, Katherine Luna

Votes: 563

26. Afghan Breakdown (1992)

140 min | War

The events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.

Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Michele Placido, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovskiy

Votes: 560

27. Bajo la sal (2008)

Not Rated | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

SET IN MEXICO! A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Víctor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father funeral home.

Director: Mario Muñoz | Stars: Humberto Zurita, Plutarco Haza, Emilio Guerrero, Irene Azuela

Votes: 1,184

28. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)

108 min | Comedy, Western

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 955

29. The Morgue (2008 Video)

R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

About six strangers who find themselves stranded overnight at a rural morgue.

Directors: Halder Gomes, Gerson Sanginitto | Stars: Bill Cobbs, Lisa Crilley, Chris Devlin, Heather Donahue

Votes: 963

30. Purgatoryo (2016)

85 min | Crime, Drama

A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he was brought into a sleazy funeral home... See full summary »

Director: Roderick Cabrido | Stars: Jess Mendoza, Kristoffer King, Bernardo Bernardo, Elora Españo

Votes: 394

31. Centipede Horror (1982)

R | 93 min | Horror

A powerful sorcerer targets the grandchildren of the man who burnt down his village 50 years ago, by casting his deadly Centipede Spell on them.

Director: Keith Li | Stars: Tien-Lang Li, Michael Kiu Wai Miu, Hussein Abu Hassan, Chu-Kwong Chan

Votes: 480

32. Valley of the Zombies (1946)

Not Rated | 56 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Dr. Maynard (Charles Trowbridge') tells Dr. Terry Evans (Robert Livingston) and his nurse, Susan Drake (Lorna Gray), about the theft of ten pints of blood from his lab. Later, he is visited... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Robert Livingston, Lorna Gray, Ian Keith, Thomas E. Jackson

Votes: 410

33. Des morts (1979)

Unrated | 105 min | Documentary

This morbid, unusual, and critically acclaimed documentary was filmed in the most exotic locations all over the world. Of the Dead (Des Morts) deals with death, the soon dead, and the ... See full summary »

Directors: Jean-Pol Ferbus, Dominique Garny, Thierry Zéno

Votes: 152

34. Shake Rattle and Roll 12 (2010)

125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

SRR 12's first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll is being starred by Shaina Magdayao, child ... See full summary »

Directors: Topel Lee, Zoren Legaspi, Jerrold Tarog | Stars: Shaina Magdayao, Ricky Davao, Malou Crisologo, Rita Avila

Votes: 82

35. The Young and the Dead (2000)

91 min | Documentary, History

The Hollywood Memorial Park cemetery was run down and bankrupt. Tyler Cassity, a young visionary from St. Louis, bought it for a song. Not only did he renovate the cemetery (the burial ... See full summary »

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Tyler Cassity, Jay Boileau, Peter Bart, Michelle Best

Votes: 114

36. I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2002)

119 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Is there love after death? The small rural community of Port Oram can answer that. When deranged young Dolores Finley (Zoë Daelman Chlanda) appears out of nowhere to begin work at the ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Rowe Kelly | Stars: Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Bill Corry, Katherine O'Sullivan, Jerry Murdock

Votes: 282

37. EM Embalming (1999)

96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After the head of the corpse of a teenager she's restoring is stolen, an embalmer encounters the organ black market and a necrotomic religious cult.

Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige, Hitomi Miwa

Votes: 261

38. Dama de noche (1993)

102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Bruno, a novelist without luck, responds to the distress call of his love, Sofía, who finds herself in desolate Veracruz and doesn't know what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend. Bruno proposes to Sofía to get rid of the corpse.

Director: Eva López Sánchez | Stars: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Cecilia Toussaint, Miguel Córcega, Regina Orozco

Votes: 30

39. Body Work (1989)

Documentary

An initiation video into the lifestyle of working with the dead.

Director: David Caesar | Star: Margot Nash

Votes: 13

40. Mimi and Mo

Comedy, Drama | Completed

Mo, a selfish commercial actress, and Mia, a naive embalmer at the local funeral home, have seemingly nothing in common - except that they live on the same street in Hollywood, and they're ... See full summary »

Stars: Maia Kazin, Maryna Kariuk, Stephanie Lovell, Paul Kennedy Jr.

41. Cada ver es... (1981)

73 min | Documentary

The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia.

Director: Ángel García del Val

Votes: 56

42. The Many Faces of Death, Part 7 (1995 Video)

91 min | Documentary

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Stars: Ulf Findeisen, Bill Garvey

Votes: 29

43. Kha. Les Embaumées (1979)

60 min

The film revolves around three notions: 1. Kha = the etheric double according to ancient Egyptians; 2. Übertragung = transfer; 3. Embalming = filling a corpse with balsamic, desiccating and antiseptic substances to preserve them.

Director: Maria Klonaris | Stars: Mylène Glykou, Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki

Votes: 5

44. Waiting for Phil (2012)

29 min | Short, Drama

Funeral director Phil suddenly has to deal with his own sorrow, as his wife passes away. Along with sorrow comes a meeting with the heartbroken daughter Sarah, who Phil has not dealt with in years.

Director: Jeanette Nordahl | Stars: Kent Allen, Anita Smith, Sharon Bakker, Dwayne Brenna

Votes: 5

45. Dead Hearts (2014)

17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love.

Director: Stephen W. Martin | Stars: Don McCorkindale, Valin Shinyei, Dalila Bela, Duncan Templeton

Votes: 260

46. Falling Leaves (2019)

9 min | Short, Drama

A brother guides his younger sister through inner workings of their family business: embalming dead bodies.

Director: Dimitri Yuri | Stars: Maysaa Almumin, Trinity Etheridge, Dimitri Yuri

Votes: 21

47. The Lincoln Bell: Following the Lincoln Funeral Train Through Ohio (2015 Video)

55 min | Documentary, History

The Lincoln Funeral Train in Ohio.

Stars: David G. Brown, Karl Busam, Robert Brugler, Tim Daley

48. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: Epitaph for a Lonely Soul (1990)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A mortician uses a cursed embalming tool to re-animate the corpse of a woman with whom he becomes obsessed after she dies.

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Louise Robey, Steve Monarque, Chris Wiggins, Neil Munro

Votes: 102

49. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: The Bride (1972)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Lisa plays mail-order corpse bride to frame a money launderer. But if Jim's timing isn't perfect she may find herself embalmed or cremated.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus

Votes: 125

50. My Family (2000–2011)
Episode: My Will Be Done (2004)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Ben starts thinking about his will. Nick takes a job at a funeral home.

Director: Dewi Humphreys | Stars: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniela Denby-Ashe

Votes: 84