10 Greatest Movies About Death
2. Coco
Pixar movies have dealt with the theme of mortality many times - most brilliantly in the stunning opening sequence of Up - but never more pointedly than in their 2017 film Coco. Sorry, Soul.
Coco follows 12-year-old aspiring musician Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), who accidentally gets transported to the Land of the Dead and must find a way back to the Land of the Living before he becomes dead permanently.
Despite its obviously elevated, supernatural approach to the afterlife, Coco is a fantastic primer for parents to start conversations with their kids about mortality.
More than that, it takes an impressively philosophical approach to death, focused less on the physical aspect of passing but more a person's incorporeal death - that is, the last time they're ever thought of by another person.
A poignant and visually stunning reminder to live a life worth remembering, Coco inspires as much as it dazzles while refusing to sugar-coat tricky subject matter.