Old Age Movies

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Timi (23) has just been transferred to the Oncology department. She is a meticulous nurse who follows the rules and tries to do her job to the best...

The artist Sergente Palmerino and his wife lose their business, their home, and everything they had built in Montreal since the late 1930s in a fire.

In the not-so-distant future stands a castle where life can be eternally extended, provided that the residents take their pills. At age 88,...

While everyone wants to die "at home" without suffering and surrounded by loved ones, in reality almost everyone dies in hospital. What healthcare...

One of society’s last taboos is elderly desire, which remains strong for many: half of older adults remain sexual. Advances in medicine and...

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in...

With an empathetic and intimate lens, veteran filmmaker Denys Desjardins captures his elderly mother's experience of neglect in Quebec's healthcare...

The daily crosswords-and-coffee ritual, when difficult to decipher, revives the memories of a woman's household, materialized in the spaces of her...

Canadian seniors over 65 are staying active through philanthropy, the arts, volunteerism, education, entrepreneurship, or the workplace. Profiled...

February 2004. Guy Caron and his wife Jeanne-d’Arc lived in the same house for more than 50 years. A sailor who sailed every ocean, Guy was...

A humorous and emotional story of a family as unpredictable as a tornado. Their life gains momentum when the seniors - Józiek and Ela - decide...

Molly is a ten-year-old girl who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad and wins the All-Ireland Music championship, her father...

An elderly man named Ven is about to be sent to a nursing home by his son, Rey. Searching for his sense of worth as he grapples with his age, he...

François, Renée, Gisèle, Sylvain. These seniors do not have much in common, but their lives have been shaped by episodes of...

A black comedy that was produced but immediately went into arbitration and was seemingly not released.

Failed hunter Elmer Fudd laments that he's never able to catch the rabbit (Bugs Bunny); just then a bolt of lightning strikes, and the voice of God...