Retirement home movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant retirement home movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating and sentimental films and TV shows about / with retirement home, elderly, retirement home life, friendship, aging, old man, senior citizen, family relations, old age and friends plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as retirement home: Retirement Home (2022), Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002), How About You... (2007), Queen Bees (2021), The Cool Kids (2018), The Last Laugh (2019), The Locket (2002), The Farewell Party (2014), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Oma in Roma (2012).

List of retirement home movies

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Retirement Home (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot: retirement home, old man, society, elderly, old woman, satire, community service, social life, boxing, workplace
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After her husband's death, woman starts looking for independence.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, light, captivating ...
Plot: senior citizen, retirement home, elderly, life turned upside down, family problems, rebelliousness, revolt, widow, protest, humour, strong female presence, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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How About You... (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, aging, retirement home, sister, disagreement, countryside, siblings relations, wisdom of life, family relations, elderly, self discovery, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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 6.3
 4K
Queen Bees (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new ...
Style: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical, romantic drama ...
Plot: elderly, elderly woman, love, retirement home, real estate agent, old woman, old man, relationships, elderly couple, male female relationship, elderly man, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1992
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The Cool Kids (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Three guy friends in a retirement community are the top dogs until they’re blown out of the water by the newest member of the community, a female rebel who’s ready to challenge their place – it’s high school with 70 somethings.
Style: sitcom, captivating, humorous, light, feel good
Plot: elderly, retirement home, retirement, old age, friendship, party, prank, society, rivalry, retired, gay, life & death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Last Laugh (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy and coaxes him back out on the comedy circuit.
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: retirement home, senior citizen, retired, obsessive quest, mentor protege relationship, buddy, escape, father daughter relationship, escapades, depression, producer, self discovery ...
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 7.0
 676
The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: retirement home, hopes, friendship, investigation, family relations, love affair, betrayal, nursing, elderly, human spirit, love and romance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
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It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Tells the story of Paul (Steven C. Stewart), a man suffering from Cerebal Palsy, who spends his days wasting away in a nursing home. To pass his time, he fantasizes about the man he should be despite his twisted body. People are able to understand ...
Style: experimental, serious, surreal, atmospheric, explicit ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disability, retirement home, love affair, introspection, voyeurism, sexual relations, nursing, sexual abuse, hopes, writer's life, dangerous attraction, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
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The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Croatia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Style: black comedy, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: retirement home, deadpan, aging, cold war, brutality, storytelling, escapades, comedy of errors, runaway, chase, wanted, old age ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: soviet union, eastern europe, scandinavia, spain, russia
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The Farewell Party (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with ...
Style: tragicomedy, touching, emotional, semi serious, existential ...
Plot: retirement home, elderly, israeli, death wish, friendship, dilemma, dark humor, life is a bitch, dealing with death, mercy killing, husband wife relationship, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hotel, elderly, aging, self discovery, goodhearted, old age, introspection, loneliness, marital problem, choice, life changing experience, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, mumbai india
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 5.7
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Oma in Roma (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Plot: hopes, single parent, couple relations, family relations, retirement home, obsessive quest, nanny, follow your dream, backpacking, inspiration, dull life, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, ontario canada
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 5.8
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Now or Never (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting
Plot: retirement home life, friendship, down on your luck, unlikely criminals, elderly, disorder, retirement, cons and scams, mistaken identity, criminal heroes, vengeance, aging ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany
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 6.8
 2K
Remember Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The day Tom Parfitt moves from his home into residential care, he becomes the sole witness to a violent death.
Style: scary, tense, atmospheric, serious, period drama
Plot: supernatural, ghost, uncover truth, investigation, retirement home, haunted by the past, puzzle, witnessing a crime, haunted house, haunted, violent death, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 6.0
 830
Never Too Late (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating
Plot: senior citizen, retirement home, vietnam veteran, retirement, elderly, old man, retired, attempted escape, escape plan, escapades, elderly man, mission ...
Place: adelaide south australia
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 7.5
 23K
Away from Her (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Style: sincere, melancholic, sentimental, depressing, realistic ...
Plot: elderly, alzheimer's disease, mental illness, true love, loneliness, love, tragedy, existentialism, marriage, human spirit, fighting illness, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: canada, iceland, ontario canada
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That Evening Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style: serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, rough ...
Plot: farm, betrayal, retirement home, homecoming, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
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 6.2
 329
Reach for Me (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" ...
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: aging, retirement home, couples, elderly, terminal illness, unfulfillment, retirement home life, time, love, widower, old man, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
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Is Anybody There? (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, sexual harassment, reconciliation, elderly ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place: england, europe
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 6.6
 110
Act Your Age (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, disturbing, satirical, thought provoking ...
Plot: retirement home, actor, character change, elderly, adulthood, grownups, elderly man, social issues, retired, lifestyle, old age, changing lives ...
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 7.6
 5K
Wrinkles (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title (2008 Spanish National Comic Prize), WRINKLES is a 2D animated feature-length film for an adult audience. Wrinkles portrays the friendship between Emilio and Miguel, two aged gentlemen shut away in a ...
Style: adult animation, sad, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, friendship, retirement home, aging, childhood memory, parents and children, fighting the system, rescue, dementia, senior citizen, slow burn, existential crisis ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 8.4
 89
Sweet Mother (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly ...
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: aging, elderly, retirement home, parents and children, retirement home life, social relations, family relations, everyday life, lifestyle, life, family life, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 6.1
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Stop and Go (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two sisters embark on a hilarious, mile-a-minute road trip to rescue their grandmother and her beloved dog from her retirement home before their reckless sister gets there first.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, road movie
Plot: epidemic, travel, retirement home, sister sister relationship, family relations, family problems, grandmother granddaughter relationship, social problems, illness, girl, grandmother, road trip ...
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 3.3
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3 Geezers! (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good
Plot: elderly, actor's life, silly humor, showbiz, hollywood, filmmaking, disorder, friends, retirement home, artists and showbiz, gay subtext, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Hunting Elephants (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, biting
Plot: unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, friends, elderly, cons and scams, friendship, retirement home, youth, dishonesty, one last job, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
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 8.1
 1K
Getting On (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: hospital, satire, elderly, nurse, medical, friends, friendship, doctors and patients, workplace situations, retirement home, power relations, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
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Play the Game (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When ladies' man David Mitchell (Paul Campbell) gives his lonely grandfather, Joe (Andy Griffith), some pointers on dating, Joe becomes a big hit with the women in his retirement community. But David strikes out with his own tricks when he ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wooing, retirement home, elderly, family relations, couples, resentment, looking for love, lifestyle, aging, battle of the sexes, friendship between men, chess ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: amateur sleuth, investigation, retirement home, amateur detective, couple relations, odd couple, who done it, cemetery, private detective, poison, suicide, heat wave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 6.8
 21K
Quartet (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: elderly, opera, aging, retirement home, retired, reconciliation, concert, old age, musician, friendship, music, human spirit ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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