The Seventh Seal

This Film is considered Ingar Bergman's masterpiece. It is concerned with the metaphysics of life and death, the existence of God, and whether or not you can cheat death. The Film is seeped in Archetypal characters, the brave knight, Death as a rational being, neither good nor evil, but inevitable, priests and followers, even an idealized family, named after the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph traveling actors. They befriend the knight and his squire, who plays the part of the fool, in the group's journey back to the Knight's castle. 

Members of the group range from fearing death, facing death, ignoring death, challenging death and accepting death.  The way different character deal with the character of death I think is the focus of the film, as a study of humanity, as knowledge of coming death is humanity's unique and defining feature. 

At the close of the film all of the characters perish from the black plague, except for the young family, that represents reproduction, life, and the pastoral joy that can be attained through humanity. Yet the family understands and accepts that Death will one day, too come for them.