The Gerontological Movies Blog

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

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?

What makes a movie an excellent gerontological film? Well—read my review and watch 27 Nights and you’ll find out.

Thelma is a wonderful gerontological movie, which breaks traditional stereotypes on old age, gender, and ageing.

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.

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

It has been a while since my last geromovie review.... being a Dean takes its toll. So, luckily, there is Netflix to watch. By...

What makes a gerontological movie a good movie? Is it simply that the stars are older actors? Is it that the story engages elder issues?...

Good Luck to You Leo Grande is certainly a gerontological movie to watch. You can love it, you can hate it, but you will not stay...

Continuing my search for movies which deal with or focus on the aging of the gay community, I was recommended to watch the movie...

Driveways is an American drama movie, directed by Andrew Ahn, based on an original screenplay by playwrights Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen....

Since her unforgettable performance in Cohen brothers' movie Fargo, I knew Frances McDormand was something special. Since then, she...

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