Movies by Lists - Best movies about Old Age (65 [65]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| About SchmidtA recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. | 2002 | Alexander Payne | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (127.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| AmourGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested | 2012 | Michael Haneke (*) | Drama | 7.9 (97.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Bakuchi-uchi - Inochi-huda [Fate Deals the Card of Death]Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (76.2K votes) | 91 | 20220315 |
| Barbarian Invasions, The.During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son. | 2003 | Denys Arcand | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 (29K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Being ThereAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. | 1979 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (70.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Bow, The [Hwal]On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day f | 2005 | Kim Ki-duk | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (11.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bucket List, TheTwo terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. | 2007 | Rob Reiner (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (240.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Color of Money, TheFast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. | 1986 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.0 (80.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Crazy HeartA faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. | 2009 | Scott Cooper | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.2 (93.2K votes) | 112 | 20231013 |
| Curious Case of Benjamin Button, TheTells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences. | 2008 | David Fincher (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.8 (626.2K votes) | 166 | 20211228 |
| Darkest HourIn May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. | 2017 | Joe Wright | Biography, Drama, War | 7.4 (191.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Death of Mr LazarescuMr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis. | 2005 | Cristi Puiu | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (14.8K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Dersu Uzala [The Hunter]The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter. | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 8.3 (27K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Driving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | Drama | 7.4 (107K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Father, TheA man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. | 2020 | Florian Zeller | Drama, Mystery | 8.2 (178.9K votes) | 97 | 20231016 |
| Finding ForresterA young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author. | 2000 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Drama | 7.3 (88.4K votes) | 136 | 20231017 |
| Fried Green TomatoesA housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady at a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know. | 1991 | Jon Avnet | Drama | 7.7 (79.7K votes) | 130 | 20231017 |
| GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. | 1982 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (225.5K votes) | 191 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Gods and MonstersThe last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored. | 1998 | Bill Condon | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (30.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Gran TorinoDisgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. | 2008 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama | 8.1 (753.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Great Beauty, TheJep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite | 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino (*) | Drama | 7.8 (87.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Hachiko - A Dog's StoryA college professor bonds with an abandoned dog he takes into his home. | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | Biography, Drama, Family | 8.1 (272.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Harold and MaudeYoung, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (75.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| I Stand AloneA horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. | 1998 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (22.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| IkiruA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer. | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama | 8.3 (75.5K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Inherit the WindBased on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. | 1960 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (29.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| It Must Be HeavenFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. | 2019 | Elia Suleiman | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (5.1K votes) | 102 | 20221228 |
| Judgement At NurembergIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. | 1961 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, War | 8.2 (75.1K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| KolyaA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate. | 1996 | Jan Sverák | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.8 (15.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| LuckyLucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. | 2017 | John Carroll Lynch | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (22.8K votes) | 88 | 20220415 |
| Make Way For TomorrowAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.2 (8.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Man Called Ove, A [En man som heter Ove]Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. | 2015 | Hannes Holm | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (53.3K votes) | 116 | 20220415 |
| Million Dollar BabyA determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. | 2004 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (667.5K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad, TheIncompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. | 1988 | David Zucker (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (163.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Name of the Rose, TheAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (106.6K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| NebraskaAn aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. | 2013 | Alexander Payne | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (116.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| NetworkA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control. | 1976 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 8.1 (154.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| PhilomenaA world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. | 2013 | Stephen Frears (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (98.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| PoetryA sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. | 2010 | Chang-dong Lee | Drama | 7.8 (11.8K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Primal FearAn altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (205.1K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Queen, TheAfter the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. | 2006 | Stephen Frears (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (108.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| RanIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama, War | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Requiem for a DreamThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama | 8.3 (809.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. | 1995 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.6 (1.6M votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| ShadowlandsC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S. | 1993 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (18.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Still WalkingA family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear. | 2008 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Drama | 8.0 (15.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Straight Story, TheAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother. | 1999 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| SullyWhen pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless. | 2016 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (259.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari]An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.2 (59.2K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| True GritA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer. | 2010 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Drama, Western | 7.6 (329.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Two Popes, TheBehind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church. | 2019 | Fernando Meirelles | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (118.1K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| TyrannosaurJoseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. | 2011 | Paddy Considine | Drama | 7.6 (31.7K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ugly, Dirty and Bad [Brutti sporchi e cattivi]Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery. | 1976 | Ettore Scola | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (8.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Umberto DAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.2 (25.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Up78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. | 2009 | Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.2 (997K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Waking Ned DevineWhen a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money. | 1998 | Kirk Jones | Comedy | 7.4 (26.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Way, TheA father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the ""El camino de Santiago,"" and decides to take the pilgrimage himself. | 2010 | Emilio Estevez | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (34.6K votes) | 123 | 20231013 |
| Wednesday, AA retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him in his memories - the case of a man and a Wednesday. | 2008 | Neeraj Pandey | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (77.8K votes) | 104 | 20220414 |
| Whatever WorksA middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl. | 2009 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (73.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Wife, TheA wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. | 2017 | Björn Runge | Drama | 7.2 (38.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Wild StrawberriesAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (104.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Woman in GoldMaria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. | 2015 | Simon Curtis | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (57.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Worlds Fastest Indian, TheThe story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. | 2005 | Roger Donaldson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.8 (53.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| YouthA retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday. | 2015 | Paolo Sorrentino (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.3 (77.4K votes) | 124 | 20220415 |