Do you know movies about death?

Hi everybody!

I'm currently working on a research on the representation of death in films (American and French). Do you have any ideas? Death must have a material dimension (corpse, cemetery, coffin, burial, science, doctor...)

Thank you a lot,
Ketzali

What Dreams May Come (1998) is the obvious one.

Interesting topic, I think documentary would be the best way to go because I don't think your classmates would go in that direction. And you can go into all the different ways death is documented and treated in non-fiction.

Dying at Grace (2003)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Look of Silence (2014)
Dear Zachary (2008)
Tower (2016)
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Night and Fog (1956)

Actually I work as a research assistant for a professor and we are looking for fictions, but thank you very much anyway.

Well that's a piece of information you glossed over....

Kwaidan
Onibaba
Ikiru
Wild Strawberries
Seventh Seal
Cries and Whispers
Grapes of Death
Our Town
Wages of Fear
Le Corbeau
Jane Erye
The Innocents

The Green Room (1978) By Francois Traffaut. It is about a man obsessed with his dead wife, and building a memorial in a room in his home, and finally at a chapel. French movie.

Taking Chance - escorting the coffin of a dead soldier home - this might be, overall, an excellent example of what you're looking for. It covers the preparation of the body, the transportation of the personal effects of the KIA, the process by which the coffin is transported to the soldier's hometown, and visitation/wake, and the funeral.

The Sweet Hereafter is about a lawyer trying to get the families of children killed in a school bus accident to sign with him for a trial. There's some basic studying of the bus and some depositions prior to trial. You see how the different families react to the deaths.

Taking Chance is based on real-life events, so doesn't fit your requirement.

Now, Fargo, and the woodchipper does cover the proper way to process a body.

The Fountain
Solaris (1972 Russian), but if Russian language is beyond scope, then there is an english remake from 2002.

Both are about loss through death and the remaining lead character trying to deal with/avoid that loss. More or less.

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Yes, there is a dubbed version though, re: Solaris original.