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

1. Meet Joe Black (1998)

PG-13 | 178 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Death, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber

Votes: 264,833 | Gross: $44.62M

2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

PG | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.

Directors: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh

Votes: 175,188 | Gross: $168.46M

3. Final Destination (2000)

R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

Director: James Wong | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke

Votes: 279,506 | Gross: $53.33M

4. Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.

Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving

Votes: 53,044

5. The Seventh Seal (1957)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe

Votes: 198,457

6. Countdown (III) (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

Director: Justin Dec | Stars: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Peter Facinelli

Votes: 45,532

7. Strange Days (1995)

R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 78,428 | Gross: $7.92M

8. The Book of Life (2014)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

Director: Jorge R. Gutiérrez | Stars: Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman

Votes: 78,012 | Gross: $50.15M

9. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed

Votes: 56,863 | Gross: $8.08M

10. Monkeybone (2001)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy

In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.

Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan

Votes: 19,197 | Gross: $5.41M

11. Scoop (2006)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst

Votes: 87,601 | Gross: $10.53M

12. Bernie (2011)

PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman

Votes: 63,453 | Gross: $9.20M

13. The Meaning of Life (1983)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical

The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

Director: Terry Jones | Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

Votes: 125,326 | Gross: $14.93M

14. Deconstructing Harry (1997)

R | 96 min | Comedy

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephanie Roth Haberle

Votes: 47,812 | Gross: $10.69M

15. Extraordinary Tales (2013)

Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

Director: Raul Garcia | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo del Toro

Votes: 3,562

16. Dead Cells (2018 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Unable to die, a mysterious being attempts to escape a magical island prison, but every death sends him back to the beginning.

Director: Sebastien Bénard

Votes: 946

17. Lost in Random (2021 Video Game)

E10+ | Action, Adventure

Welcome to the world of Random, a dark kingdom where every citizen's future is determined by the roll of a dice. Will you be defeated by your fate or embrace chaos and learn to make it work... See full summary »

Director: Olov Redmalm | Stars: Katey Parr, Olov Redmalm, Karen Kahler, Ty Konzak

Votes: 142

18. O Beautiful Night (2019)

89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Yuri is a young musician. He is very afraid of death. For this reason, he hardly leaves his apartment. One day he meets a mysterious man who claims to be death. He takes him on an extraordinary journey.

Director: Xaver Böhm | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Marko Mandic, Vanessa Loibl, David Ali Rashed

Votes: 413

19. Death's Diner (2022)

16 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Two patrons stumble into a restaurant one foggy night and find that their lives have come to an end.

Director: Ravenna Tran | Stars: Lauren Du Pree, Yoshi Sudarso, Tyler Roy Roberts

Votes: 11

20. Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe (2021)

87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The continuous story of Brandner Kaspar in Bavaria in the mid-1950s. When Death (Boandlkramer) is supposed to take little Maxl, he falls in love with his mother Gefi. Confused by previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Michael Herbig, Hape Kerkeling, Hannah Herzsprung, Josef Staber

Votes: 636

21. The Twilight Zone (1988 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Text adventure with illustrations that plays like an episode of Rod Serling's classic TV show on which it's based. A gamer is sucked into a video game and must find a way out to save both himself and the world.

Votes: 14

22. Time Killers (1992 Video Game)

M | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Fighting game based on Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat where eight warriors from various time periods fight in gory death matches to face the immortal Death and, by killing it, obtain immortality themselves.

Votes: 22

23. Le miroir à trois faces: Orphée (1966 TV Movie)

45 min | Drama, Music, Romance

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Director: André Fey | Stars: Adolfo Andrade, André Jobin, Michèle Le Bris, Colette Marchand

24. Ozhidaniye (2019)

4 min | Short, Fantasy

Angel of Death comes to dying old man and ask his last wish. Old man wants to know, what was the meaning of his life. Angel of Death explains that the only meaning of his life was the bad ... See full summary »

Director: Ilya Korobeinikov | Stars: Sergey Chervyakov, Aleksandr Kolovertnykh

25. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
Episode: In the Game (2002)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

A drug-addicted actress dies from a cocaine overdose and leaves her fellow cast and crew members to set up the funeral.

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 2,024

26. The Storyteller (1987–1989)
Episode: The Soldier and Death (1988)

TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Because of kind acts toward three beggars, an honest soldier returning from war is given a magical sack, an unbeatable deck of cards, a ruby whistle and a comparable dance, which he uses to save a kingdom and to foil Death.

Director: Jim Henson | Stars: John Hurt, Bob Peck, Stuart Richman, Walter Sparrow

Votes: 407

27. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: Nothing in the Dark (1962)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always won. But now she finds herself afraid to let a wounded policeman in her door for fear he is Mr. Death. Is he?

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong, Rod Serling

Votes: 3,396

28. The Sandman (2022– )
Episode: The Sound of Her Wings (2022)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Feeling a bit rudderless, Morpheus shadows his hard-working big sister, who offers him advice and encourages him to reconnect with an old acquaintance.

Director: Mairzee Almas | Stars: Tom Sturridge, Kirby, Jenna Coleman, Mason Alexander Park

Votes: 11,965

29. The Watch (2020–2021)
Episode: The What? (2021)

TV-14 | 41 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

As fear of the dragon keeps people off the streets, The Watch must heist The Assassins' Guild, the city's most secretive and dangerous institution, in a desperate effort to find the precious magical artefact known as Gawain before Carcer.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Chanté Grainger, Thabo Rametsi, Lara Rossi, Samuel Adewunmi

Votes: 349

30. The Watch (2020–2021)
Episode: Twilight Canyons (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Carcer is willing to do anything to find the sword for Gawain; the Watch is close on his tail, following him to Twilight Canyons, a place where the elderly residents await death; death patiently waits for them to draw their last breaths.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Paul Kaye, Marama Corlett, Adam Hugill, Joni Ayton-Kent

Votes: 319

31. The Watch (2020–2021)
Episode: Better to Light a Candle (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Carcer's got everything he needs to control the Noble Dragon and destroy Ankh-Morpork. With hysteria on the streets and DEATH preparing for a very busy day, can The Watch, this band of misfits, step up and save the city from annihilation?

Director: Emma Sullivan | Stars: Richard Dormer, Anna Chancellor, Craig Macrae, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 229

32. Torchwood (2006–2011)
Episode: Dead Man Walking (2008)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Before Martha can perform an autopsy on Owen, Jack uses the other Resurrection Glove to temporarily revive him but something goes wrong. A strange energy is keeping his corpse reanimated, and altering his DNA.

Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori

Votes: 1,081

33. Horrible Histories (2009–2024)
Episode: Scary Special (2012)

28 min | Comedy, Family, History

Death gets a good look around as he reveals his creepiest moments - a Tudor family show the extent of their ghostly superstitions and the Vikings demonstrate how to become truly terrifying to enemies.

Directors: Dominic Brigstocke, Steve Connelly

Votes: 10

34. Hungarian Folk Tales (1980–2012)
Episode: A halhatatlanságra vágyó királyfi (1996)

6 min | Animation

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Directors: Mária Horváth, Marcell Jankovics | Star: Gyula Szabó

Votes: 8

35. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Appointment in Samarra (2010)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dean decides to bargain with Death to get Sam's soul back, and has to accept a wager. Meanwhile, Sam refuses to take the risk of getting his damaged soul back, and prepares to cast a spell to prevent Dean's efforts.

Director: Mike Rohl | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Robert Englund, Jim Beaver

Votes: 4,519

36. Avoidance (2022– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2022)

29 min | Comedy, Drama

It is Spencer's birthday and he wants the whole family to go to a zombie-themed hotel. But Danielle and Courtney are not speaking, and Jonathan and Claire are still awkward since their kiss.

Director: Benjamin Green | Stars: Kieran Logendra, Lisa McGrillis, Mandeep Dhillon, Jessica Knappett

Votes: 39

37. The Watch (2020–2021)
Episode: A Near Vimes Experience (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Captain Sam Vimes' life in the City Watch is changed forever when an figure from his past returns to Ankh-Morpork. 20 years ago, Vimes watched his street brother and gang-leader Carcer Dun fall from a fatal height. Somehow, Carcer is back.

Director: Craig Viveiros | Stars: Richard Dormer, Craig Macrae, Wendell Pierce, Trevor Frost

Votes: 539