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A list of 10 movies that feature the Grim Reaper or Death as a character or a concept. The list includes titles, ratings, genres, summaries, and cast information for each movie.
- The Phantom Carriage
- Metropolis
- Death Takes A Holiday
- On Borrowed Time
- The Seventh Seal
- The Masque of The Red Death
- Love and Death
- Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Scrooged
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The Phantom Carriage is one of the earliest depictions on film of a scythe-carrying representation of Death. The movie follows David (Victor Sjöström), a drunkard and unrepentant jerk who has a near-death experience after being hit on the head with a bottle. As David’s soul leaves his body, he is visited by a ghostly man in a carriage who attempts ...
Metropolis, the 1927 Germanmasterpiece by Fritz Lang, features the Grim Reaper briefly in a pair of highly memorable scenes. First, Freder (Gustav Fröhlich), the heart of the movie, sees a statue of Death centered among other statues representing the seven deadly sins. Freder is unnerved, and he later hallucinates that the statue of the Grim Reaper...
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Death Takes a Holiday stars Fredric March as Death in human form. Death takes a break from his duties for a few days so he can mingle among humans to try to understand why people fear him. Death takes the form of a handsome Prince, and he begins to experience human emotions for the first time when he falls for the beaut...
A cantankerous old man traps the Grim Reaper in an apple tree in the touching family drama On Borrowed Time. The old man, known as Gramps (Lionel Barrymore), isn’t ready to head into the afterlife because he is worried about leaving his orphaned grandson Pud (Bobs Watson). When Death comes for Gramps in the form of Mr. Brink (Cedric Hardwicke), Gra...
Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal contains what is easily one of the most iconic portrayals of Death ever put on film. The story is about a knight named Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) who finds that Death (Bengt Ekerot) has been following him after returning from The Crusades. Block and Death engage in a game of chess which allows Block to stay in ...
Though Vincent Price may may not play the version of the Grim Reaper most people are accustomed to, the red-robed figure in Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is unquestionably a personification of Death. The story is derived from Edgar Allen Poe‘s tale about the arrogant and unfeeling Prince Prospero (also played by Vincent Price) who thro...
Woody Allen plays a pacifist forced to join the Russian army when Napoleon invades Austria in the satirical comedy Love and Death. Diane Keaton costars as Sonja who ends up marrying Allen’s character Boris not because she wants to, but because she’s being nice and thinks he’ll die soon in a duel anyway. Not to spoil the movie too much, but Death do...
In the segment titled “Death” in Monty Python’s sketch-comedy film The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a group of people having a dinner party. The Reaper tries to explain that they must all go with him, but they have a hard time understanding what he is trying to tell them. Hilarity ensues. This version of the Grim Reaper is especially hau...
In something of an ode to tall tales, The Adventures of Baron Munchausenis a fantasy adventure that chronicles the exploits of the titular baron as he goes on a series of fantastical adventures. Baron Munchausen (John Neville) is constantly a few steps ahead of the Angel of Death during his death-defying journeys where he encounters a colorful cast...
Of all the live-action versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843), the Ghost of Christmas Future from Scrooged is easily one of the most interesting. The ghost, which is an incarnation of Death, approaches the caustic Frank Cross (Bill Murray) near the end of his revelatory journey and shows him the effects his life will have on others. ...
A list of movies featuring the Grim Reaper as a character or a symbol of death, from silent classics to modern comedies. Learn about the history, symbolism and variations of the Grim Reaper in film.
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Nov 13, 1998 · A fantasy romance drama starring Brad Pitt as Death, who takes the form of a young man and falls in love with the daughter of a media mogul (Anthony Hopkins). IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
- (267K)
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Martin Brest
- 1998-11-13
The Seventh Seal: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow. 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.
- (200K)
- Drama, Fantasy
- Ingmar Bergman
- 1958-10-13
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Mar 28, 2022 · Movies have used the Reaper’s services since at least 1957, and he is given a staggeringly diverse spectrum of roles, from tragic to funny to outright apocalyptic. So, how about we have a look? Here are the Top 10 Depictions of Death in Movies – Explored.
