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Death by Magic

Death by Magic is a 2018 Netflix reality series, also called Todesursache: Magie, in which British magician Drummond Money-Coutts (DMC) recreates stunts that killed other magicians across eight episodes.

Death Comes to Pemberley (TV series)

Death Comes to Pemberley: three-part 2013 BBC One drama adapted from P.D. James's 2011 sequel novel to Pride and Prejudice, starring Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin as the Darcys investigating a murder at Pemberley.

Death Game

Death Game, also released as The Seducers, is a 1977 American psychological thriller directed by Peter S. Traynor, starring Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel, in which two women seduce and torment a businessman in his San Francisco home; US release April 13, 1977.

Death Has a Shadow

"Death Has a Shadow" is the January 31, 1999 series premiere of Family Guy, written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Peter Shin, aired after Super Bowl XXXIII; Peter loses his job and collects excess welfare.

Death Has No Master

Death Has No Master (La muerte no tiene dueño) is Jorge Thielen Armand's 2026 Venezuelan-Canadian-Italian-Luxembourg thriller starring Asia Argento, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, about an heiress whose cacao plantation mansion is occupied by former staff.

Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?

Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg? is a 2025 three-part ABC News Studios Hulu docuseries, directed by Nancy Schwartzman, about Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, found with 20 stab wounds in 2011, whose death was ruled homicide then suicide.

Death in Paradise (TV series)

Death in Paradise is a BBC One crime comedy-drama created by Robert Thorogood, airing since 2011, set on fictional Caribbean island Saint Marie and filmed in Guadeloupe, with five lead detectives and spin-offs Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.

Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden (La Mort en ce jardin, 1956) is a Luis Buñuel French-Mexican jungle adventure-drama starring Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, and Michel Piccoli, about fugitives from a South American diamond-miners' uprising.

Death in Venice (film)

Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) is Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, starring Dirk Bogarde as composer Gustav von Aschenbach and Björn Andrésen as Tadzio, scored with Mahler, premiered in London in March 1971 and restored in 2018.

Death Inc.

Death Inc. (Muertos S.L.) is a Spanish dark comedy series about the Torregrosa funeral home, created by Alberto and Laura Caballero for Movistar Plus+ (2024) and released globally on Netflix (2025–2026) in four seasons.

Death Note (2006 film)

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Noto) is a 2006 Japanese live-action film directed by Shusuke Kaneko, adapting Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga; Tatsuya Fujiwara plays Light Yagami, Kenichi Matsuyama plays L, and it was the first of a two-part 2006 release.

Death Note (2017 film)

Death Note (2017) is Adam Wingard's Netflix live-action adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga, starring Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, and Willem Dafoe; set in Seattle, critically panned (36% RT), and followed by a separate Duffer Brothers TV series.

Death Note (デスノート)

Death Note (デスノート) is a shōnen manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2003–2006 in 12 volumes, in which Light Yagami kills criminals with a death god's notebook while detective L hunts him; adapted into a 37-episode Madhouse anime (2006) and a 2017 Netflix film.

Death Note (デスノート) (2015 TV series)

Death Note (デスノート) is Nippon TV's 2015 live-action drama adaptation of Ohba and Obata's manga, 11 episodes, July 5 to September 13, 2015, starring Masataka Kubota as Light and Kento Yamazaki as L, with a rewritten story and new ending.

Death Note 2: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name)

Death Note 2: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name) is the 2006 Japanese live-action sequel concluding the two-part Death Note film adaptation, directed by Shusuke Kaneko, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, and Erika Toda, released November 3, 2006, 140 minutes.

Death Note: Light Up the New World (デスノート Light up the NEW world)

Death Note: Light Up the New World (デスノート Light up the NEW world) is a 2016 Japanese live-action sequel directed by Shinsuke Sato, set ten years after Kira versus L, with Higashide, Ikematsu, and Suda fighting over six Death Notes.

Death Note: New Generation (デスノート NEW GENERATION)

Death Note: New Generation (デスノート NEW GENERATION) is a 2016 three-episode Hulu Japan web miniseries directed by Shinsuke Sato, bridging the Death Note films and Light Up the NEW World via Mishima, Ryuzaki, and Shien.

Death Note: The Last Name

Death Note: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name) is a 2006 Japanese live-action film, the second of Kaneko Shusuke's two-part adaptation of the Death Note manga, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Kenichi Matsuyama, with an altered ending in which L wins.

Death Note: The Musical

Death Note: The Musical (デスノート THE MUSICAL) is a Frank Wildhorn musical adapting the Death Note manga's first arc. Premiered Tokyo 2015, ran in Korea and elsewhere, and reached a fully staged English-language Barbican production in 2026.

Death of a Brewer

Death of a Brewer is an independent 2020s period drama film directed by Mokotsi Rukundo, adapted from S.C. Sherman's novel Beer Money, about the 1884 Iowa City beer riots; stars Crispin Glover, Mena Suvari, Jefferson White; filmed August 2025, in post-production.

Death of a Cyclist

Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) is Juan Antonio Bardem's 1955 Spanish-Italian drama starring Lucía Bosé and Alberto Closas, about adulterous lovers who kill a cyclist and flee; it won Cannes FIPRESCI 1955 and defied Francoist censorship.

Death of a Famous Actor

Death of a Famous Actor (Mingyou zhi si) is a 1927 Chinese spoken drama by Tian Han about a Peking opera star who dies on stage.

Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter (1969) is a 94-minute Universal Western starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne, the first film credited to the DGA pseudonym Allen Smithee, standing in for directors Robert Totten and Don Siegel after a production dispute.

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning Broadway tragedy of Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman destroyed by his flawed pursuit of the American Dream; revived on Broadway in 1984, 1999, 2012, 2022, and 2026.

Death of a Unicorn

Death of a Unicorn is a 2025 A24 horror-comedy, the feature directorial debut of Alex Scharfman, starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant; released March 28, 2025, it earned $16 million worldwide against a $15 million budget.

Death of Marilyn Monroe

Death of Marilyn Monroe: the actress (Norma Jeane Mortenson) found dead August 5, 1962, age 36, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, of acute barbiturate poisoning, ruled probable suicide; a 1982 district attorney review found no evidence of murder.

Death of Me (film)

Death of Me is a 2020 folk-horror thriller directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth as a couple in Thailand who find a video of an apparent ritual murder. Released by Saban Films on October 2, 2020; shot in Krabi and Bangkok; 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

Death of Sushant Singh Rajput: Indian Bollywood actor (Kai Po Che!, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story) found hanging in his Bandra, Mumbai home on June 14, 2020, aged 34; ruled suicide by postmortem and AIIMS, and the CBI's 2025 closure report found no foul play.

Death on the Nile (1978 film)

Death on the Nile (1978) is John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation starring Peter Ustinov in his first of six Poirot appearances, with Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, and Maggie Smith; it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Death on the Nile (2022 film)

Death on the Nile is a 2022 mystery thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh, adapted from Agatha Christie's 1937 novel and the sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017).