The Gerontological Movies Blog

For those who enjoy watching films, long flights offer a rare opportunity—not only to catch up on recent releases, but also to discover movies you might never have otherwise considered. That’s exactly how I came across The Best You Can . The Best You Can  (2025) is an American romantic comedy-drama written, produced, and directed by Michael J. Weithorn. The film follows Cynthia Rand (Kyra Sedgwick), a successful New York physician married to a significantly older husband, War

June Squibb—who at 96 embodies Eleanor with extraordinary vitality—is a triumph. Squibb continues to defy ageist assumptions, demonstrating once again that advanced age does not diminish artistic power or screen presence.

The Great Escaper is based on a great real life story. But is it a great gerontological movie?

This is a remarkable film. It is one of the most powerful, visceral portrayals I have seen of the intersection of ageism and sexism. See more in my blog.

The movie follows Ruth, a middle-aged American journalist who travels to Poland with her father, a holocaust survivor, in search for meaning

There are almost no drama movies focused on geriatric institutional care. Allelujah is one of the first of its kind that tries that.

In this blog, I had a chance to review various movies with well known aging movie stars (e.g. Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Dianne...

Brave and wise older women: A documentary providing insights of the meaning of old age in face of nuclear disaster.

So, finally I get to review a gerontological movie from Latin America - this time from Chile. While usually my policy is not to include...