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Powder Blue

2009

On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

Body Without Soul

1996

A stark documentary about young male prostitutes in Prague, aged 15 to 18, who work the streets, train stations, and clubs. Through candid interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of gay porn shoots, the film explores their lives, struggles, and dreams, touching on themes of exploitation, identity, AIDS, and survival.

Making a Killing

2018

Three morticians get caught in a web of greed and deceit, involving buried treasure and a tangled love affair, in this modern day crime mystery that is based on a true story.

Love Me Dead

2024

Issac, a young reclusive mortician who inherited his stepfather's mortuary business, meets a friendly waitress, Cassi. The two create an instant connection and after a night of terror, they pursue a revenge murder together.

The Mortuary Collection

2020

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

Die Bestatterin - Tote leben länger

2025

Mortician Lisa Taubenbaum is presented with the body of a woman named Dorothea Blum, who is said to have committed suicide. When an odd stranger insists on seeing the body and is murdered shortly afterwards, she takes a closer look at the case

Best F(r)iends: Volume 1

2017

When a drifter befriends a quirky mortician, an unlikely business partnership is formed. Paranoia soon develops, however, and both men are forced to come to terms with the fragility of friendship and loyalty.

Last Rites

1980

A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.

We All Go Up

2024

MORTICIAN - LIVE @ SAINT VITUS BAR 12/3/22

2022

MORTICIAN LIVE AT SAINT VITUS BAR W/ BOWEL EROSION, BOG BODY & MIASMATIC NECROSIS.

Going Alone

2022

Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.

Women Undertakers: Back for the Dead

2019

For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. But today a growing number of women are making a comeback. For the good of the deceased?