The Gerontological Movies Blog

What does The Blue Trail tell us about aging, freedom, and the place of older people in society? This provocative Brazilian dystopia imagines a future in which people over 75 are removed from society. Through three gerontological reflections, I explore the film’s ageism, its emancipatory message, and its challenging cultural context.

The film embarks on a deeply personal journey of the hero to find Miko, the Japanese woman he fell in love with more than fifty years earlier.

A Kind of Madness (2025), directed by Christiaan Olwagen, is a poignant South African drama that explores love, aging, and dementia.

Remarkably Bright Creatures is a gentle and beautiful film. Its cinematography is stunning, its story is deeply heartwarming, and, ultimately, it raises thoughtful and meaningful gerontological questions.

How an inter-generational restaurant becomes a celebration of family, community, and cultural heritage, showing how food can help heal grief and bring people together.

The film thoughtfully engages with central themes in the psychology of aging, illustrating how traumatic events from earlier stages of life continue to shape and influence us well into old age.

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

Ageing, dementia, intergenerational conflict and clash of values and generations. All in one gerontological film.

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

Get Low is a surprisingly fascinating example of the "life-course" perspective in gerontology.

A beautiful gerontological movie on friendship and transsexuality in older age.

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

A classic gerontological drama: the meeting of an aging woman with her taxi driver - which breaks down stereotypes and ageist approaches.

This is a beautiful drama film on the struggle of an older woman dealing with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Question: Do you know who's STING's song "Englishman in New York" written about? If you don't know - you'll know by the end of this blog....

"The Father" is a 2020 drama film, about an old man (Anthony - Anthony Hopkins), with dementia, who lives alone in his apartment in...

Any one in the field of elder law or gerontology knows about elder guardianship. Almost any one in the field of elder law or gerontology...

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

A review of the movie Dick Johnson is Dead. A movie on aging, end of life, and struggling with dementia.

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