Old Age Movies

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...

Destroying your own artwork. For many artists it is unmentionable, but Loes Heebink from Kolderveen irreparably destroyed her artwork "Fluisteraars"...

Each knot on a red string marks a man’s journey through life and the sacrifices he makes. Far from home, he struggles to balance duty, dreams,...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000...

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting...

In a country house, Armando, a proud and somewhat macho grandfather, loses his bearings when his wife falls ill. He will learn to accept help from...

Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and...

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...

Memories are created and preserved when a boy paints a porcelain cup, a grandfather tells his grandchildren about two birds, and a grandmother...

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers...

The director's mother is 90 years old—and is beginning to forget herself. Not only herself, but everything else as well. She has dementia. Only...

The film follows 94-year-old Nežka as she navigates loneliness, the loss of those she loves, and the quiet emptiness of everyday life. Her faith...

A cheerful documentary about the daily life of a community of Franciscan sisters. “Hasta mañana, si Dios quiere” (See you...

An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.

Dona Maria, a woman in her seventies, is alone at home with her thoughts. Abandoned by everyone—and by the life she once nurtured with such...

An elderly woman's dementia takes over more rapidly than expected as she tries to remember her past.