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Movies: Best "retirement home" Movies


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Cocoon(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 564 votes)

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel(2015)

PG
| 2h 2min | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 316 votes)

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Make Way for Tomorrow(1937)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 76 votes)

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Retirement Home(2022)

1h 37min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 71 votes)

A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs(2005)

1h 45min | Comedy, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

First Love(1978)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.

Gideon(1998)

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life. Through his innocence he changes their lives and teaches them that each day is a precious gift. They get back their self-esteem and their lust for life.

Never Too Late(2020)

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.

Last Man Club(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.

Directed by Bo Brinkman

Cleaverville(2007)

1h 35min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A life-time criminal is on the run after completing a diamond theft gone wrong. She seeks her mother's help in staying on the run and resist the urge to reconnect with her daughter.

Directed by Jorge Montesi

Tango Argentino(1992)

1h 31min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.

The Gin Game(2003)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia (Mary Tyler Moore) and Weller (Dick Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments.

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Act Your Age(2011)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a nursing home, he is forced to review his life choices. Lake eventually learns to abandon his preconceptions and rid himself of the anger that has been holding him back, in pursuit of his dreams.

Directed by Robin Christian

Florence Has Left the Building(2014)

14min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Its the annual Christmas Eve concert at the Marigold House Assisted Living Facility. All her friends are dying and Florence wants out. When the facility double books two rival Elvis impersonators, Florence takes the opportunity for one last hurrah.

Tosca's Kiss(1984)

1h 27min | Documentary, Music
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. This documentary, which has achieved cult-like status among opera and music lovers, features former singers who reminisce about their careers and their past operatic roles.

Directed by Daniel Schmid - With Sara Scuderi, Giulietta Simionato

Age-Old Friends(1989)

1h 30min | TV Movie, Comedy

John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best buddy Michael Aylott, who's slowly drifting into senility.

Directed by Allan Kroeker - With Hume Cronyn

Wet Bum(2014)

1h 35min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

An awkward teenage outcast finds unlikely companions in two aged residents of the retirement home in which she works.

Directed by Lindsay MacKay - With Julia Sarah Stone, Leah Pinsent, Jamie Johnston, Kenneth Welsh

Music for One X-mas and Six Drummers(2011)

5min | Comedy, Music
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Six Drummers take over a retirement home. They perform a cheerful X-mas tune on the various items inside.

Oldies but Goldies(2012)

1h 41min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complicated and risky eye operation ahead. That is why Ota decides that this is the time to look up Jana, the retired actress who had influenced the course of his life many years ago. However, his reunion with Jana - who lives in a retirement home - works out differently to his expectations. Although disappointed at first, it is actually this zestful lady who sets Ota in the right direction again. Thanks to Jana, Ota finds the courage to set out on an exciting road-movie trip of the kind he would never have had the courage for in his youth. Their meeting and the excursion, full of unexpected turns and new impressions, give their lives a new dimension.

Mi querido Juan Manuel(2022)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.

Third Act(2019)

1h 19min | Documentary

Third Act is a film about aging. Leo is 80 years old and tours the world with the internationally renowned dance-theatre company Peeping Tom. On stage Leo is condemned to an elderly home crowded by local extras in their third age. But in real life, his wife waits for him - in an elderly home in Belgium. What do you do in the third and last act of your life? And what do the elderly in other countries and cultures do when the curtain is about to fall?

Retirement Home(2017)

1h 34min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of elders live the passions and pains of their weekdays in a retirement home in the north of Portugal. As arrangements are made for the Carnival ball, the cloud of the biggest economic crisis since the end of the dictatorship hovers by.

Violets are Blue(2023)

Daniel moves into a Seniors' residence because he is lonely. There he meets Violet and they fall in love. However, Violet's daughter-in-law does not approve of her starting a new relationship and does everything in her power to keep them apart. How much autonomy are seniors given to make their own decisions? At what point do they cease to be capable of making personal choices?

Atentamente(2016)

1h 15min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

ATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.

Directed by Camila Rodríguez Triana

The Village(2012)

16min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Far away from any other urban centers, Itapuã is a small community with the characteristics and rituals of everyday life. The location, which sheltered 1,454 people and has more than 70 years of existence remains with only 35 residents all over the age of 60. No one likes to remember what the place was in the past, even though for many the memory is etched on their bodies.