talking to the dead
8 movies and shows
Ghost Town
Fri, 19 Sep 2008
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Blithe Spirit
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Idlewild
Fri, 25 Aug 2006
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Sat, 12 Dec 2015
Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.
What Isn't There
Wed, 12 Sep 2012
Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty, he returns home to Manila for Christmas. While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death.
L'Esprit de famille
Wed, 29 Jan 2020
A writer must face the sudden death of his father, but after the burial, the latter reappears to him. He will have to learn to live with this facetious companion, but difficult to explain the situation to his family, because he is the only one who can see him. This disturbing presence will create an earthquake in the family.
Roman : I’ll be who I was
Thu, 15 Jun 2017
Born in 1981, Roman was a brilliant young man, promised a bright future but he died crushed by a car in 2015. His friend Eugenia could not accept this disappearance and decided to create an “intelligent” chabot. Feeding it all his texts, the software learned to speak like him thanks to an artificial intelligence.
By this River
Fri, 11 Oct 2013
A young boy builds a raft to reach his mother in the land of the dead, which he believes is at the end of the river that runs alongside their property.