A matter of life and death

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows a matter of life and death

poster Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
(2.8/5)
1mn - Adventure, Fantasy
Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some treasure beneath the waves.
poster D.O.A.
D.O.A.
(3.6/5)
83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…
poster An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy
16mn - Drama
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…
poster Man Alive!
Man Alive!
(2.7/5)
12mn - Animation
This Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a d…
poster An Electric Sleep
An Electric Sleep
76mn - Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A terminally ill teenager must extract a cure from the scientists who created her deadly disease, racing against time as surveillance operatives close in to eliminate all witnesses.
poster Mark's Secret to Eternal Life
Mark's Secret to Eternal Life
(2.6/5)
76mn - Drama, Sci-Fi
An 18-year-old awakens in a parallel world where nobody recognizes him, and must absorb the life force of the dead to prevent everyone he loves from dying horrific deaths.
poster Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves
12mn - Drama
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a …
poster A Life for a Life
A Life for a Life
(3.2/5)
67mn - Drama
Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.
poster Scared to Death
Scared to Death
65mn - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving a…
poster Death in Small Doses
Death in Small Doses
(2.8/5)
88mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Espe…
poster This Is Not a Test
This Is Not a Test
(2.7/5)
73mn - Drama, Action, Thriller
Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he tells everyone why: a nuclear attack o…
poster Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
14mn - Comedy, Action
When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
poster Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman
7mn - Action
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect …
poster Kill or Cure
Kill or Cure
11mn -
Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this …
poster Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
7mn - Drama
As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
poster Something to Think About
Something to Think About
78mn - Drama
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a …
poster If We Only Knew
If We Only Knew
10mn - Drama
A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and sti…
poster A Desperate Crime
A Desperate Crime
7mn - Thriller, Drama, Crime
A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.
poster Kill or Be Killed
Kill or Be Killed
90mn - Action, Adventure, Drama
Two former ranking figures of the Axis powers (the evil General Von Rudloff and Japanese master Miyagi) schedule a deadly martial arts tournament in Von Rudloff's desert castle. They race to assemble the…
poster The Country Doctor
The Country Doctor
16mn - Drama
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who ha…
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