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The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love. Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander. Votes: 2,401
Nov 13, 1998 · With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. 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.
- (264.8K)
- Martin Brest
- PG-13
- Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
- 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 that feature the Grim Reaper as a character or an archetype in film, from the silent era to the present. Learn about the history and variations of the personification of Death in film, and how it explores human mortality and the meaning of life.
- Chris Catt
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Set in Denmark (Elsinore and Roskilde are Danish cities cited in the movie) during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life.
- 16 February 1957
- Erik Nordgren
- $150,000
- Allan Ekelund
Bruce Willis as Dr. Paul Kersey, a trauma surgeon turned vigilante known as The Grim Reaper; Vincent D'Onofrio as Frank Kersey, Paul's brother; Elisabeth Shue as Lucy Kersey, Paul's wife; Dean Norris as Detective Kevin Raines; Kimberly Elise as Detective Leonore Jackson; Beau Knapp as Knox; Stephanie Janusauskas as Sophie
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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.
- (193K)
- Ingmar Bergman
- Not Rated
- Drama, Fantasy
Jul 18, 1996 · grim reaper. 45 movies. Movies. Sort. Metropolis. March 6, 1927. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (신과함께-죄와 벌) December 22, 2017.
