Movies Like The Cause of Death

If you liked The Cause of Death (2021), a movie directed by Tim McCarthy, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Life of Chuck (2025)
★ 7.3/10
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
2
The Last Word (2017)
★ 6.6/10
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
3
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
★ 7.1/10
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by…
4
Final Destination (2000)
★ 6.7/10
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
5
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
★ 7.3/10
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
6
Ghost Town (2008)
★ 6.5/10
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…
7
Phantasm (1979)
★ 6.5/10
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
8
Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4/10
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees…
9
Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
10
Premonition (2007)
★ 6.3/10
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still…
11
Harold and Maude (1971)
★ 7.6/10
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
12
Hallam Foe (2007)
★ 6.7/10
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
13
The Father (2020)
★ 8.1/10
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
14
For the Love of Spock (2016)
★ 7.4/10
The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.
15
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
★ 6.2/10
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
16
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
★ 7.4/10
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
17
Proof (2005)
★ 6.4/10
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness…
18
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
★ 6.6/10
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
19
Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
★ 7.4/10
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
20
The Double (2014)
★ 6.5/10
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.