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Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down at the heels hospital, this follows put upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion, George A. Romero's film stars MARTIN's Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in a women's extended-care unit of a California hospital, the story follows the daily lives of a ragtag staff assigned to care for elderly patients who are, well, getting on. Nurse DiDi is the no-nonsense newbie, Unit veteran Nurse Dawn is tasked with training DiDi, but winds up obsessing over male Supervising Nurse Patsy. Disgruntled Dr. Jenna James continues her above-it-all temper tantrums despite being given a fresh start.
6) Silver skies
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It chronicles a group of working-class residents whose lives turn upside down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has assembled a high-profile cast to play some very complicated roles. With humor and compassion, she brings these old-timers to a place of fear, a little romance and deep caring for each other's wellbeing. The story is easily relatable, as the aging population confronts a...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
9) Ghost story
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
About the Members of the Chowder Society, who get together each week to share tales of horror. Soon, however, a secret terror invades the group, and one by one, they die mysteriously because of a real life ghost story that is part of their past.
10) Queen bees
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics...
11) On golden pond
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife Ethel. Soon after they are joined by their daughter Chelsea, her fiancée Bill, and his son Billy. The cantankerous Norman's unlikely bond with young Billy provides the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers' strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.
12) Lovely, still
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger standing in his home. What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late life love affair that takes a heartfelt and wonderful journey with an unexpected turn.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The sun isn't setting yet on the once-famous acting coach Sandy Kominsky and his cantankerous longtime agent, Norman Newlander. They are best friends who keep each other going as they navigate their twilight years in youth-obsessed Los Angeles. It's them against the world, tackling every curveball life tosses their way. Bizarre funeral stipulations, senior dating, aging male body parts, a drug-addicted adult daughter, and an overdue IRS bill: All...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To Celia's dismay, Caroline takes on a challenging new headship role at a troubled state school and buys a rundown farmhouse nearby. Is there more to this big upheaval than she is letting on and will her move prompt her mother and Alan to finally find a place of their own? Meanwhile Gillian's struggling to adjust to new husband Robbie being around all day since he retired from the police.
15) X
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A group of actors set out to make an adult film in rural Texas under the noses of their reclusive hosts-an elderly couple with a farm and boarding house for rent. But when the couple catches their young guests in the act, the cast finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives in this tantalizing slasher from writer-director Ti West.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The series takes place in the geriatric wing of a struggling hospital and follows a staff of overworked doctors and nurses and their elderly patients. Though the tone is darkly comic, this critically-acclaimed series addresses very real issues such as death, hopelessness, abusive patients and the things it takes to survive a high-stress work environment. The hospital's care workers do whatever it takes to stay sane while dealing with unruly patients,...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their 70s, fall for each other all over again when they are reunited on the internet after nearly 60 years. Their relationship is a celebratory tale of the power of love at any age. But this is also a story about family, and with family comes baggage. Celia's respectable, head teacher daughter Caroline is juggling bringing up two boys and dealing with her husband's infidelity, while Alan's...
18) The congress
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 24
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
19) The owners
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score, an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alan and Celia have now been married for seven years. The childhood sweethearts, who reunited and remarried in their seventies, have moved into a lovely new home. But Alan and Celia are discovering that wedded bliss isn't always blissful. Clashing politics, Alan's new job and a wild local lad create tension. Meanwhile, Caroline gets emotionally embroiled at work and Alan's brother Ted jets in for a visit.
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