10 Greatest Movies About Death

10. A Ghost Story

Produced for just $100,000, David Lowery's A Ghost Story is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on both mortality and the passage of time.

Casey Affleck stars as a man who dies in a car accident and awakens as a ghost, spending the remainder of the film wearing a white sheet over his body as he observes his wife (Rooney Mara) grieving over his death and eventually moving on.

It's easy to see how such an artsy concept could come off silly in lesser hands - especially given that it features a near-five-minute unbroken take where Mara's character eats a pie - but Lowery's restrained, observational filmmaking packs a deceptively powerful punch.

Seeing life go on around the ghost, confined to observe it all within the boundaries of the home he and his wife used to share, is quietly heartbreaking.

Depicting the unstoppable march of time in such upfront fashion confirms the film's universality, and despite its seemingly supernatural consideration of death, you needn't be spiritually inclined to be left thoroughly moved.