Movies and TvShows featuring "cycle-of-life" theme.

Flik, a misfit ant, recruits a group of bugs from a failed circus troupe to save his colony from the greedy grasshoppers. Together, they work to scare away the grasshoppers by creating an artificial bird. In the end, Flik's plan succeeds, and the ants are saved.

Carrie Watts is an elderly woman who longs to escape the control of her daughter-in-law and return to her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas. With the help of a kind stranger, she sets out on a bus trip to Bountiful, reliving memories of her past along the way. As she arrives at her childhood home, she finds it abandoned and in ruins. Despite this, she finds solace in the journey and the memories it brings back.

In 'The Maker,' a rabbit-ears creature follows instructions from a book to create a doll-like figure. The doll comes to life and experiences various stages of existence, representing the cycle of life and the act of creation. This short film uses stop-motion animation and surrealism to tell a captivating story without dialogue.

In a prehistoric world where trees are being cut down to make way for skyscrapers, a caveman discovers the invention of the wheel and uses it to try to stop the destruction of nature.

In 'Coda,' a lost soul embarks on a journey to find its way back home, encountering various challenges and discovering the true meaning of life and death along the way.

A documentary/nature film edited from over 975,000 feet of footage shot by naturalists Ed N. Harrison and Frances Roberts in North and South America over a span of several years. Narrated by Marvin Miller, it ranges from volcanic eruptions to idyllic ranges of pasture, forest and mountain ranges; and species such as the bears of the northwest to terns, sea lions and pelicans of the southern lands. —Les Adams

The cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the heavens with his father. He takes off from a tree house overlooking the sea and his father's landing strip. Their flight is graceful and full of adventure. Then, we watch the boy grow, study, marry, father a child, and become, himself, a grandfather. Holding a toy plane, he takes his grandchild to the same cliff from whence his own imagination took off years before.

Between the hustle and bustle of music, drinks and questionable bathrooms, three girls with different lives have more in common than what they might think.

Wildlife documentary about the Wyoming Rockies elk, following their migrations for a full year.

As Alice tends to a fig tree, her solace amidst life's transience she is guided by Ida, a nurturing neighbour. Alice's journey reflects the seasons of her emotions and the cycles of growth.

Ramfangzauva attempts to commit suicide after his wife dies due to complications that arise after she gives birth to their daughter Nuni. But before he can go through with it, he is visited by the ghost of his wife who shows him the future.

This animation tells a story about the cicle of life. It is based on found footage and photograps from the director’s family album.

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning video installation artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of his own son's birth to explore foundational and potent themes of beginnings and endings, the cycle of life and the movement of generations. An evocative exploration of personal and communal spirituality, this deeply felt film is a poetic masterpiece to contemplate time and again.

Mail wants to pursue his dream, since he was a child he expressed himself in his own way. He faced many obstacles. Even so, Mail remains determined to achieve what he wants because on the other hand there is a figure who always supports and is beside him. After he went through a lot, he finally thought that life was unfair about what he got, but also what he had given

Continuously running video installation: in a small alcove, a wood column extends from the floor and ceiling, with a gap in the center formed by two exposed video monitors facing each other two inches apart, mounted to upper and lower columns respectively, a black-and-white video image on each monitor. The upper monitor shows a close-up image of an old woman on the verge of death, and the lower monitor shows a close-up image of a new baby only days old. The images are silent. Since the surface of each monitor screen is glass, a reflected image of the screen opposite to it can be seen through the surface of each image, as life and death reflect and contain each other.