15 Best Movies About Immortality
The human race has always dreamed of becoming immortal, for the better or worst. So, it is no wonder that so many movies about immortality have been made. In this article, we are bringing you the best movies about immortality you can watch right now.
Sometimes immortality comes in terms of good-like creatures, while in others, those from hell. Whichever the case, if you want to watch movies about immortality, you can’t go wrong with any of the movies below. So, check them out and find your next watch.
The Man from Earth (2007)
An unexpected farewell party for Professor John Oldman turns into a secret interrogation after the professor discovers that he never ages and has been walking the Earth for 14,000 years.
As the reason for his departure, he said that he was forced to change his location every ten years so that no one would notice that he was not aging. But the more details he reveals about his past, the less everyone trusts him.
The Age of Adaline (2015)
In the 1930s, an unusual fate befell Adaline Bowman. After a car accident, this beautiful young woman remains trapped in the body of a 29-year-old woman and manages to hide her secret for almost eight decades. Until the charismatic Ellis Jones appears in her life.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
The vampire Lestat (T. Cruise) is immortal, or rather timeless, he does not know his age. For him, the world is endless and infinite. Lestat lives in the river of blood that is necessary for his existence, and when he wants to, he gives his victims eternal life whether they want it or not. Lewis (B. Pitt), a man devastated by the loss of his wife and daughter, enters Lestat’s life at the end of the 18th century.
Although Lewis becomes immortal, he will try to stop the heartless Lestat from relentlessly destroying people. Two hundred years later, in San Francisco in the 20th century, Lewis decided to tell his story to a young journalist (C. Slater) – a vampire story of desire, love, sadness, fear and ecstasy. The journalist wrote a report that became famous under the title “Interview with a vampire”.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
A young lawyer, Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) goes to a remote part of Eastern Europe on a business trip. When he arrives at his destination, the castle of the infamous Count Dracula (Gary Oldman), inexplicable and creepy things begin to happen, culminating in the Count’s interest in Harker’s fiancee, Mina (Winona Ryder).
Shortly after Dracula’s arrival in England, a reign of terror and bizarre seduction of victims begins. The dangerous Dracula can only be stopped by the vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins)…
The Mummy (1999)
Cairo, 1923. American adventurer Rick O’Connell (B. Fraser) is in search of treasure hidden in the lost city of Hamunaptra. He is joined by the beautiful librarian Evelyn (R. Weisz) and her spoiled brother Jonathan (J. Hannah), and their rivals are a group of greedy Americans.
Evelyn’s knowledge of Egyptology, however, proves crucial when her team first finds a mythical city and then a mysterious sarcophagus. Not knowing that it contains the mummy of the priest Imhotep (A. Voosloo), Evelyn unleashes a thousand-year-old evil…
Highlander (1986)
Connor MacLeod is an immortal warrior born in 1519 in the hills of Scotland. After being wounded in one of the many battles, Connor manages to survive, but his sudden recovery causes gossip in the village, which is why he is banished. Soon he meets another similar to himself, an immortal named Ramirez. He is a skilled warrior who is determined to teach Connor everything he knows.
Ramirez explained to him that immortals exist all over the world and that they all have one goal, to be the last survivor. Namely, the one who remains last will receive a fantastic power with which he could rule the world.
Deadpool (2016)
Deadpool started life as Wade Wilson, an elite Special Forces operative turned mercenary. When he discovers his own terminal illness, he decides to join a secret experimental program.
Subjected to an experiment that shouldn’t have happened, Wade discovers his new superpower of accelerated healing and becomes his alter ego Deadpool. Armed with newfound skills and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool sets out in search of the man who nearly destroyed him.
The Old Guard (2020)
The action adventure premiered on Netflix and follows a secret group of mercenaries who for some unknown reason cannot die. The group is led by Andy (Charlize Theron), and their goal is to save the world, which they have been doing for centuries.
But in the latest mission, their “powers” are exposed, so Andy and the newest member of the team, Nile (Kiki Layne), must help the group save each other. For some, it may be too late.
The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
For centuries, entire armies of witch hunters have fought against these formidable enemies around the world, and among them was Kaulder, a brave warrior who managed to kill the all-powerful Witch Queen and decimate her followers in the process.
In the moments before her death, the Queen cursed him and made him immortal, thus separating him from his beloved wife and daughter forever. Today, Kaulder is the only member of his species and has been hunting witches for centuries while longing for long-lost loved ones.
But Caulder has no idea that epic battles will soon await him that will decide whether the human race will survive.
Immortals (2011)
Even before the appearance of humans and animals, the gods waged war against the Titans. After the victory, they imprisoned the surviving titans under Mount Tartarus, while the Epirus bow, a weapon of incredible power was lost in the middle of the battle somewhere on Earth.
Today, after an epic battle, a new danger threatens Earth. King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) has declared war on humanity and is searching for the bow, which he intends to use to free the titans and take revenge on the gods for not saving his family. Hyperion captures the prophetess Phaedra (Freida Pinto) in her desire to help him find Epirus.
Cocoon (1985)
Art, Ben and Joe are three residents of a nursing home who go to the swimming pool in a nearby villa where no one lives. She is soon hired by a group of people who take out large petrified shells from the ocean, supposedly specimens of gigantic shells, and store them in the pool of the villa.
Art, Ben and John still secretly go swimming, and since they are in the cocoon pool, they start to rejuvenate and become more and more vital…
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
Young Winnie Foster is more suffocated by the formality of her honest life than the summer heat, but change is still in the air. Through a twist of fate, she meets the Tucks – a generous and unusual family that seems to have been lost in time.
They teach Winnie how to live life to the fullest, but the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger who asks too many questions threatens the Tucks’ world.
The Fountain (2006)
The search for the magic tree Or, more importantly, for its gift, haunts Tom (Hugh Jackman) for a thousand years. Told out of chronological order, The Fountain of Life follows Tom’s soul through three different incarnations, and during each of them, he desperately tries to save the life of his soulmate, Izza (Rachel Weisz) with the help of a tree.
We first meet Tomas, a conquistador in the 16th century who serves Queen Isabel. In order to save Spain from the Inquisition, he is tasked with finding a tree, and heads with fearless soldiers into the mysterious Mayan jungle.
In modern times, Dr. Tom Creo is involved in groundbreaking brain tumor research. He becomes obsessed with it when his wife Izzie also falls ill with a tumor, and she has only a few days to live. He is particularly interested in a tree that gives incredible results in the treatment of this dangerous disease… At least in monkeys.
With precious little time left, Tom must rush his research to show his sympathetic (but pragmatic) superiors and colleagues the riddle of the tree and save his wife.
Light years away, Tommy transports the tree to a mystical region of the galaxy. As he remembers Izzie and his past lives, he travels to a nebula that, once he arrives, promises both of them rebirth and departure into the world.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
One hundred and eighteen-year-old Nemo Nobody (J. Leto) is the last living mortal on Earth, who in the dystopian future world of 2092 recalls his life, or rather his possible lives, in front of a persistent journalist. While the public in a kind of reality show follows the anticipation of his imminent death, because people have meanwhile become immortal thanks to “telomerization”, Nemo, with the help of a psychiatrist, mentally returns to his initially happy childhood, until the moment in which, when he was 9 years old, the boy’s father (R. Ifans) and mother (N. Little) decided to divorce.
If he had run after the departing train at the train station that day after his parent’s divorce and continued to live with his mother, Nemo would have gotten closer to the romantic Anne (D. Kruger). If he had stayed with his father, he would have met the capricious Elise (S. Polley), and if he had gone his own way, Nemo would have found his soul mate in the timid Jeanne (L. Dan Pham), but neither in that marriage nor in the other two would be happy. Moreover, in all three cases, he would have died a violent death either in a traffic accident or as the wrongful victim of a contract killer.
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Lonely actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) steals another potential fiance from her best friend Helen (Goldie Hawn), this time plastic surgeon Ernest (Bruce Willis). Depressed and angry, Helen has a nervous breakdown and ends up in a hospital for the mentally ill, gaining at least three times the weight she had before.
When Helen and Madeline meet after many years, Madeline is shocked at how well Helen looks – slimmer and more glamorous than ever before. Fearing that Helen will try to win over her unsuspecting fiancé, Madeline seeks the supernatural services of a New Age mystic (Isabella Rossellini), who gives her an elixir whose instructions for use must be strictly followed, otherwise…
Immortal (2019)
After being shot in the chest by his only true friend, Genny, Ciro sinks into the dark waters of the Bay of Naples. As he sinks to the bottom, memories come to the surface. Faint sounds find their way through the cold embrace of the water – muffled cries of panic! 1980 is the year. A devastating earthquake collapses buildings.
Nevertheless, under the ruins, the cry of a newborn child echoes. It is none other than Ciro di Marzio. From that day he would be known as the Immortal. Years later, Ciro survives even that fateful shot. What they say is true: no one and nothing can kill an Immortal. From his past as an orphan to his current Baltic exile, from his first petty thefts to an all-out gang war: Ciro faces everything that comes his way, in a world where immortality is just another form of curse.
