Topic: Elderly

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Gloria Swanson · Erich von Stroheim · Nancy Olson

Plot A bankrupt screenwriter (William Holden) takes refuge in the mansion of a faded star (Gloria Swanson) of the silent era, in order to escape the debt-collectors who are chasing after...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôko Seki · Makoto Kobori

Plot Kanji Watanabe has served in a monotonous bureaucratic position in City Hall for 30 years, providing for a son who only seems to care about his money. He is seemingly...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Carlo Battisti · Maria Pia Casilio · Lina Gennari · Memmo Carotenuto

Plot Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Unberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Max Hiller · Emilie Kurz

Plot It tells the story of an elderly hotel doorman whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant. He is embarrassed by his new position so he tries to...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Christopher Carley · Bee Vang · Ahney Her

Plot Recently widowed, retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with home repair, beer and monthly trips to the barber. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Gene Hackman · Morgan Freeman · Richard Harris

Plot Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy

Plot In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Victor Sjöström · Bibi Andersson · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand

Plot It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Victor Moore · Beulah Bondi · Fay Bainter · Thomas Mitchell

Plot An elderly couple has lived together for 50 years but they have just lost their home to a bank. Their five children are sorry to hear that, but they don't...

Direction Pete Docter · Bob Peterson

Plot By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however,...

Direction Kunio Katô

Plot As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry. But when he...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Richard Farnsworth · Sissy Spacek · Harry Dean Stanton · Everett McGill

Plot A portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland. Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin,...

Direction Jimmy T. Murakami

Plot A old British couple, Jim and Hilda, who live in the countryside, believe in the fact that the Government will always know what it is doing. However the world is...

Direction Florian Zeller

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Olivia Colman · Imogen Poots · Rufus Sewell

Plot Almost 80, mischievous, caustic, and defiantly living alone, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) rejects each and every hired caretaker that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), lovingly introduces. Anne is desperate for help....

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Sumiko Sakamoto · Tonpei Hidari · Aki Takejô

Plot A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional journey from her poor village...

Direction Michael Rossato-Bennett

Cast Dan Cohen · Louise Dueno · Nell Hardie · Norman Hardie

Plot As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives. Spearheaded by social...

Direction Juan José Campanella

Cast Ricardo Darín · Héctor Alterio · Norma Aleandro · Natalia Verbeke

Plot At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He's overwhelmed by his responsibilities and just isn't having any fun. He has spent most of his life frantically trying to...

Direction Asghar Farhadi

Cast Peyman Moaadi · Leila Hatami · Sareh Bayat · Shahab Hosseini

Plot Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Plot John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned...