List of films released posthumously

The following is a **list of films released posthumously** involving major cast or crew members who either died during production or before the film's release.

## Directors

* All of Louis Le Prince's surviving films, following his mysterious disappearance in 1890.
* *The Song of Songs* (1918), released just seventeen days after Joseph Kaufman's death in the 1918 flu pandemic.
* *The Top of New York* (1922), released four months after William Desmond Taylor's unsolved murder.
* *Such Men Are Dangerous* (1930), released just over two months after Kenneth Hawks' death in a two-plane crash over the Pacific Ocean, while directing re-takes of aerial scenes for the film; Hawks, the younger brother of fellow director Howard Hawks, was killed along with pilot Walter Ross Cook, cameraman George Eastman, assistant director Ben Frankel, assistant director Max Gold, Tom Harris, Harry Johannes, Otho Jordan, pilot Halleck Rouse, and cinematographer Conrad Wells (also known as Abraham Fried). The finished film left Hawks uncredited.
* *The Sin Ship* (1931), released two months after Louis Wolheim's death from stomach cancer.
* *Tabu* (1931), released a week after F.W. Murnau's death in a car accident.
* *The Viking* (1931), given its public release over three months after co-director Varick Frissell's death in an explosion, along with 26 other crew members, on board the SS *Viking*; the film, shot on location in Newfoundland by George Melford and Frissell in the winter of 1930–31, had been nominally completed and privately screened when Frissell decided it needed more sensational and realistic footage from the Labrador ice floes. Within days, Frissell and his crew re-joined the SS *Viking* (already used in the film) to shoot more footage; however, the ship quickly became trapped in ice about eight miles (13 km) off the Horse Islands. On March 15, 1931, a cache of dynamite loaded on the vessel, being used for Frissell's film to add to the sensationalism of giant explosions of icebergs, spontaneously blew up, destroying the back of the ship, blowing the stern off the vessel, and causing the *Viking* to catch fire and sink, killing 27 members of the crew who were filming an iceberg, including Frissell and cinematographer Alexander Gustavus Penrod. The film as Frissell had left it was prepared for its posthumous release by associate producer Roy W. Gates. A French-language version of the film, *Ceux du "Viking"*, shot simultaneously with the English-language version by French director René Ginet and also featuring Frissell's nature footage, was released in February 1932, 11 months after Frissell's death.
* *The Case of the Black Cat* (1936), released four months after Alan Crosland's death in a car accident.
* *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937), released over a month after Richard Boleslawski's death from cardiac arrest.
* *Titanic* (1943), released a year after Herbert Selpin's supposed suicide. The film was completed by Werner Klingler who was not credited.
* *That Lady in Ermine* (1948), released over eight months after Ernst Lubitsch's death from a heart attack.
* *Ambush* (1950), released four months after Sam Wood's death from a heart attack.
* *Fort Worth* (1951), released two months after Edwin L. Marin's death.
* *The Lovers of Montparnasse* (1958), released over a year after Max Ophüls' death from rheumatic heart disease, while shooting interiors on the film. Because he died in the middle of production, Ophüls' friend Jacques Becker took over after the director's death and finished the picture; it was dedicated to Ophüls' memory.
* *The Fly* (1958), *Machete* (1958), *Watusi* (1959), and *Counterplot* (1959) all released after Kurt Neumann's death.
* *The Hole* (1960), released less than a month after Jacques Becker's sudden death; Becker, who had shot the film over a period of ten weeks, died of an undisclosed illness just two weeks after filming had wrapped. The picture was edited and assembled by Marguerite Renoir and Geneviève Vaury based on notes the director had written before his death; the completed film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 13th Cannes Film Festival.
* *Song Without End* (1960), released a year after Charles Vidor's death from a heart attack. Because Vidor had died in the middle of filming, directing work was completed by George Cukor, who received on-screen credit for providing grateful contributions to the picture.
* *A Dandy in Aspic* (1968), released a year after Anthony Mann's death from a heart attack.
* *The Love God?* (1969), released eight months after Nat Hiken's death from a heart attack.
* *Blood from the Mummy's Tomb* (1971), released eight months after Seth Holt's death
* *The Honkers* (1972), released five days after Steve Ihnat's death from a heart attack, while attending the 25th Cannes Film Festival.
* *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom* (1976), released twenty days after Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder; the killer ran over him several times with Pasolini's own car while at the Ostia beach, near Rome.
* *De cierta manera* (1977), released two and half years after Sara Gómez's death
* *The Greatest* (1977), released four months after co-director Tom Gries' death.
* *The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (1977) and *The Rescuers* (1977), both released over a year after co-director John Lounsbery's death as a result of surgical complications due to heart failure.
* *The Manitou* (1978), released three months after William Girdler's death in a helicopter crash.
* *The Lovers' Wind* (1978), released nearly eight years after Albert Lamorisse's death in 1970 during shooting on the film, in a helicopter crash over a tour of Iran; his widow and son eventually completed the film, based on his production notes. It was nominated for a posthumous Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
* *Watership Down* (1978), released over a year after John Hubley's death during heart surgery; the film was eventually finished by Martin Rosen, and Hubley went uncredited.
* *Avalanche Express* (1979), released over a year after Mark Robson's death from a heart attack during filming; production was completed by his friend and fellow director, Monte Hellman, who went uncredited for his work.
* *Freedom Road* (1979), released nearly five months after Ján Kadár's death.
* *Scout's Honor* (1980), released four months after Henry Levin's death.
* *Lightning Over Water* (1980), released over a year after co-director Nicholas Ray's death from lung cancer.
* *Querelle* (1982), released two months after Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death from heart failure, due to a lethal mixture of sleeping pillsand cocaine.
* *Steaming* (1985), released about a year after Joseph Losey's death.
* *The Dead* (1987), released almost four months after John Huston's death from emphysema and complications from a heart attack.
* *Welcome Home* (1989), released nearly three months after Franklin J. Schaffner's death from lung cancer.
* *The Nutcracker* (1993) and *Gypsy* (1993), released four days and less than a month, respectively, after Emile Ardolino's death due to complications from AIDS.
* *Blue Sky* (1994), released nearly three years after Tony Richardson's death from complications from AIDS.
* *Be a Wicked Woman* (1990), shelved by director Kim Ki-young and screened publicly in 1998, following his death that same year in a house fire.
* *The Argument* (1998) and *Wild Side* (1999), both released over two years after Donald Cammell's suicide, following a disastrous recut of *Wild Side* by the film's producer.
* *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), released over four months after filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's death from a heart attack.
* *A Decade Under the Influence* (2003), released a year after Ted Demme's death from a heart attack.
* *06/05* (2004), released one month after Theo van Gogh's assassination.
* *Quiet Flows the Don* (2006), released over twelve years after Sergei Bondarchuk's death from a heart attack; disputes after filming had wrapped in 1994, over unfavorable clauses in Bondarchuk's contract with the Italian studio co-producing the film, left the tapes locked in a bank vault until sometime after the director's death. Bondarchuk's son, Fyodor Bondarchuk, assembled and edited the film for its final release on Russian television in 2006.
* *Everyone's Hero* (2006), released after co-director Christopher Reeve's death in 2004.
* *Cars* (2006), released after co-director Joe Ranft's death from a car crash.
* *California Dreamin'* (2007), released nearly nine months after Cristian Nemescu's death in a taxi accident; the crash also killed the film's sound designer, Andrei Toncu.
* *Waitress* (2007), released just over six months after Adrienne Shelly's murder at the hands of Diego Pillco; the Ecuadorian immigrant was caught stealing money from Shelly and decided to strangle her to death with a bedsheet, then frame it as a suicide by hanging.
* *The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency* (2008), television film pilot, aired five days after Anthony Minghella's death from a cancer-related hemorrhage.
* *Dhaam Dhoom* (2008), a Tamil (Indian language) film co-written and partly directed by Jeeva shortly before his death; it was completed by his widow, Anees Murugaraj, and his longtime assistant, V. Manikandan, and overseen by veteran cinematographer P. C. Sriram.
* *Buy a Suit* (2008), released just over a month after Jun Ichikawa's death from a cerebral hemorrhage, following his collapse at a restaurant.
* *Casino Jack* (2010), released just over a month after George Hickenlooper's death from an accidental overdose of oxymorphone and alcohol.
* *Jab Tak Hai Jaan* (2012), released just over a month after Yash Chopra's death from dengue fever and multiple organ failure.
* *Hard to Be a God* (2013), released nearly nine months after Aleksei Yuryevich German's sudden death; the film itself had been shot from 2000 to 2006, and was in the midst of intensive sound editing upon German's death.
* *The Uncondemned* (2015), released just over two weeks after co-director Nick Louvel's death in a traffic collision.
* *Traffic* (2016), released just over a month after Rajesh Pillai's death from non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
* *The Aquatic Effect* (2016), released nearly ten months after Sólveig Anspach's death from breast cancer.
* *Odd Job* (2016), released almost a year after Pascal Chaumeil's death from cancer.
* *The Evil Within* (2017), released nearly two years after Andrew Getty's death.
* *24 Frames* (2017), released under a year after Abbas Kiarostami's death.
* *The Other Side of the Wind* (2018), released 33 years after Orson Welles' death.
* *Varda par Agnes* (2019), released after Agnès Varda's death, though it had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival a month prior.
* *The Amusement Park* (2019), released in Pittsburgh two years after George A. Romero's death.
* *Raging Fire* (2021), released a year after Benny Chan's death from nasopharyngeal cancer.
* *laabam* (2021), released just over six months after S.P. Jananathan's death.
* *The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial* (2023), to be released a month after William Friedkin's death from heart failure and pneumonia.
* *Underdogs Rising* (TBA), to be released after Anthony Hickox’s death in October 2023.
* *Eka Gei Sokari* (TBA), to be released after Jackson Anthony’s death from his injuries from a car accident in October 2023.