Care of the Elderly and Geriatrics - Dramas

Tuesdays With Morrie
Director: Mick Jackson
Country of origin and year: USA, 1999
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria and Wendy Moniz
Detroit Free Press sports columnist Mitch Albom has found success and popularity in his occupation, but emotionally and spiritually he is bankrupt. He learns that his former university professor Morrie Schwartz is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease.  At first, Mitch is reluctant to pay his former mentor a visit, since, they had not stayed in contact. But he eventually overcomes his uneasiness and finds a very warm welcome from Morrie. The two begin to discuss the issues of happiness, life, and death, and they soon begin to meet on a weekly basis as Mitch reassumes the role of Morrie's student.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207805/

Soylent Green
Director: Richard Fleischer
Country of origin and year: USA, 1973
Starring: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson and Leigh Taylor-Young
In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Most of the population's food source comes from synthetics manufactured in local factories — the dinner selections being Soylent Blue, Soylent Yellow, or Soylent Green. When an upper-echelon executive in the Soylent Company is found murdered, police detective Thorn is sent in to investigate the case with anold friend. As they investigate the environs of a succession of mad-from-hunger New Yorkers and the luxuriously rich digs of the lucky few, Thorn uncovers the terrible truth about the real ingredients of Soylent Green.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

Untouchable
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Country of origin and year: France, 2011
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny
A black man getting released from jail just wants to get the signature that he applied for the job as a private nurse of a handicapped, wealthy, white French, but he takes the job and starts a close friendship with his boss.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/

Away from Her
Director: Sarah Polley
Country of origin and year: Canada, 2006
Starring: Julia Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent
Forty-four years married, Fiona and Grant find their mutual devotion tested by her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. When it becomes apparent that the condition is worsening, she checks into a rest home. However, Grant struggles with the the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there.  Grant visits her a month later and finds that his wife has grown close to Aubrey, a fellow resident. Jealous and hurt, Grant finally seeks help from Aubrey's wife when Fiona suffers a crisis.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491747/

Amour
Director: Michael Haneke
Country of origin and year: France, 2012
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes. The couple's hopes for some dignity prove a dispiriting struggle even as their daughter enters the conflict. In the end, George, with his love fighting against his own weariness and diminished future on top of Anne's, is driven to make some critical decisions for them both.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/

The Savages
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Country of origin and year: USA 2007
Starring: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their father, Lenny. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, and he cannot care for himself with his dementia. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Together, they must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775529/

A Song for Martin
Director: Billie August
Country of origin and year: 2001 Sweden
Starring: Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson
Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. After divorcing their spouses, Martin and Barbara marry and begin a happy life together. Five years later, as the couple is working on a new opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As Martin's condition worsens and his personality changes, the couple strain to hold on to the love that once brought them together.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257215/

Iris
Director: Richard Eyre
Country of origin and year: UK, USA, 2001
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslet
The film is based on the life of revered, is a story of unlikely yet enduring love. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley, a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. Murdoch recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/

Age Old Friends
Director: Allan Kroeker
Country of origin and year: USA, Canada, 1989
Starring: Aaron Alexander, Frummie Blatt, Hume Cronyn, Vincent Gardenia
The resident of a nursing home, John Cooper is frustrated by his strictly ordered surroundings. Even though his body is in decline, John remains mentally keen, while his close friend, Michael Aylott, has the opposite issues -- he is in fairly good health, but becoming progressively more senile. As John and Michael attempt to keep some level of independence and contend with their own ailments, they try their best to support each other.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096774/

On Golden Pond
Director: Mark Rydell
Country of origin and year: USA 1981
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
Cantankerous retiree Norman Thayer and his conciliatory wife, Ethel, spend summers at their New England vacation home on the shores of idyllic Golden Pond. This year, their adult daughter, Chelsea, visits with her new fiancée and his teenage son, Billy on their way to Europe. After leaving Billy behind to bond with Norman, Chelsea returns, attempting to repair the long-strained relationship with her aging father before it's too late.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082846/

Remember
Director: Atom Egoyan
Country of origin and year: Canada, Mexico, South Africa, 2015
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith
"Remember" is the contemporary story of Zev, who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some 70 years ago is living in America under an assumed identity. Despite the obvious challenges, Zev sets out on a mission to deliver long-delayed justice with his own trembling hand. What follows is a remarkable cross-continent road-trip
with surprising consequences.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704050/
The Iron Lady
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Country of origin and year: UK, 2011
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E Grant
Elderly and a virtual prisoner in her own home due to her concerned staff and daughter Carol, Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, looks back on her life as she clears out her late husband Denis's clothes for the Oxfam shop. Denis is seen as being her rock as she first enters parliament and then runs for the leadership of the Conservative Party, culminating in her eventual premiership. Now his ghost joins her to comment on her successes and failures, sometimes to her annoyance, generally to her comfort until ultimately, as the clothes are sent to the charity shop, Denis departs from Margaret's life forever.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007029/