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Death Fugue

Death Fugue (Todesfuge) is a poem by Paul Celan, written in 1944 and 1945, addressing the Holocaust through a structure modeled on the musical fugue.

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 Grips

Death Grips: Sacramento experimental hip-hop group (Zach Hill, MC Ride/Stefan Burnett, Andy Morin) formed 2010; Exmilitary, The Money Store, Epic Records fallout, The Powers That B, Bottomless Pit, Year of the Snitch.

Death growl

Death growl: the low, harsh, distorted extreme-metal vocal technique (also called death grunt or guttural vocals) produced with false vocal folds, credited to Jeff Becerra and codified by Death's Scream Bloody Gore in 1987.

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 a Stone Cell

Death in a Stone Cell (石室之死亡) is a landmark modernist long poem by the Taiwanese poet Lo Fu, begun in 1959 during the Kinmen–Xiamen artillery exchange and published in 1965.

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 June

Death in June (DIJ, DI6) is a British neofolk group formed in 1981 by Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford of the punk band Crisis, known for albums like Brown Book and Rose Clouds of Holocaust and for persistent controversy over its fascist-tinged imagery, including a German sales ban.

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

Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) is Thomas Mann's 1912 novella about writer Gustav von Aschenbach's obsession with the Polish boy Tadzio in cholera-stricken Venice; adapted by Visconti (1971 film) and Britten (1973 opera).

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 Magnetic

Death Magnetic is Metallica's ninth studio album, released September 12, 2008 on Warner Bros. and produced by Rick Rubin. A thrash return to form scoring Metacritic 78, it is best known as the loudness war's most famous victim, with a DR3 master, a cleaner Guitar Hero version, and a 2015 remaster.

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Hiro Ainana, begun as a web novel in 2013.

Death mask

Death mask: a plaster or wax cast of a deceased person's face, taken soon after death before features distort. Used for effigies, posthumous portraits, veneration, phrenology, and identification; known since ancient Egypt and Bronze Age Greece.

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal genre that grew out of thrash metal in the mid-1980s, known for low-tuned guitars, blast beats, and deep growled vocals.

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 Bachelor

Death of a Bachelor is Panic! at the Disco's fifth album (January 15, 2016), made by Brendon Urie alone with producer Jake Sinclair, blending Frank Sinatra and Queen influences, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a Grammy Best Rock Album nomination.

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.