dead body

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Her interest in art contrasts with the darker themes of The Gallerist, in which she plays an art consultant caught up in a scheme to sell a dead body as an artwork.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

In "The Gallerist" -- starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, along with Jenna Ortega and Sterling K. Brown -- a desperate curator tries to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The latest film from celebrated Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho starts with a dead body and ends with an elegy for a different one.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The man said to Pa, “Sir, I swored wasn’t no one gunn take us back ’less it be over my dead body.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis