
Carmen: A Hip Hopera(2001)
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.


Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Yvette Mimieux
Peggy Chapman

Monte Markham
David Smith

Myrna Loy
Selena Chapman

Bert Convy
John Cummings

Melvyn Douglas
Judge Earl Chapman

Kerwin Mathews
Senator Earl Chapman, Jr.

Priscilla Pointer
Marion Chapman

Austin Willis
Martin Herndon

Colby Chester
Tony Chapman
Maureen Reagan
Ellen Chapman
Death Takes a Holiday is a drama, fantasy, romance, tv movie film released in 1971 exploring themes of based on play or musical, remake, death personified, death incarnate. Directed by Robert Butler, it stars Yvette Mimieux, Monte Markham, Myrna Loy. Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
Discover titles like Death Takes a Holiday — ranked by similarity and community votes
We found 15 movies similar to Death Takes a Holiday
If you enjoyed Death Takes a Holiday, you'll love these handpicked recommendations. Each title below shares similar themes, tone, and storytelling style. Our algorithm analyzes genres, keywords, director filmography, and cast connections to find the closest matches. Whether you're looking for the same emotional depth, narrative structure, or visual style, these picks are curated to deliver the best viewing experience for fans of Death Takes a Holiday.

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.