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 humorous, captivating, feel good, semi serious, realistic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with retirement home, friendship, elderly, old man, retirement home life, senior citizen, old age, aging, satire and family relations 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: Silberdisteln (1998), Retirement Home (2022), The Cool Kids (2018), How About You... (2007), Queen Bees (2021), Play the Game (2009), The Last Laugh (2019), Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002), The Locket (2002), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011).
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List of retirement home movies
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, crime drama, tension, suspense, detective
Plot:
retirement home, injustice, murder mystery, abuse of power, friendship, ethical dilemma, scheming, whodunit, vigilante justice, revenge, bureaucracy, senior citizen ...
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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, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
retirement home, community service, elderly, aging, society, social life, old man, old woman, satire, empathy, humanity, personal growth ...
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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, situational comedy, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
elderly, retirement home, retirement, old age, friendship, prank, party, society, rivalry, old people, gay, retired ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, aging, retirement home, sister, wisdom of life, family relations, self discovery, elderly, siblings relations, disagreement, countryside, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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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, rom com ...
Plot:
elderly, love, elderly woman, real estate agent, retirement home, old woman, old man, elderly couple, male female relationship, lifestyle, old love, elderly man ...
Time:
2020s, year 1992, 21st century
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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, sentimental, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
retirement home, wooing, grandfather grandson relationship, dating, elderly, couples, family relations, resentment, looking for love, lifestyle, aging, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
feel good, buddy comedy, light, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, adult
Plot:
retirement home, escape, retired, senior citizen, obsessive quest, buddy, mentor protege relationship, escapades, father daughter relationship, aging, stand up comedy, retirement ...
Place:
america
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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, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, retirement home, woman strangled to death, introspection, love affair, hopes, dangerous attraction, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, human spirit, sexual abuse ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After her husband's death, woman starts looking for independence.
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot:
retirement home, elderly, life turned upside down, rebelliousness, family problems, revolt, widow, protest, humour, strong female presence, social relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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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, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
retirement home, hopes, lost love, friendship, investigation, haunted by the past, love affair, nursing, elderly, family relations, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, India
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, sentimental, uplifting, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, hotel, loneliness, self discovery, aging, goodhearted, old age, marital problem, life changing experience, choice, retirement home, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, delhi, mumbai india, seattle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
Style:
black comedy, entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
retirement home, criminal gang, gang, heist, gang of outlaws, villainess, girl gang, bandit, aged person, female villain, retirement home life, friendship ...
Place:
poland
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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:
disturbing, satirical, semi serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
retirement home, actor, theater, personal growth, character change, elderly, elderly man, changing lives, retired, satire, old man, social issues ...
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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:
feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
retirement home, hollywood, showbiz, actor's life, elderly, artists and showbiz, disorder, filmmaking, friends, silly humor, prank, fish out of water ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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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, fighting the system, parents and children, rescue, dementia, senior citizen, old people, slow burn ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, homosexual, gay interest, gay bar, retirement home, gay couple, drag queen, gay father, gay friend, small town, lgbtq ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
"Sunshine Home" is a home for the aged founded by Grandma Lin. In a small space that's full of warmth reside a group of elderly people with different personalities. As Grandma Lin suffers from the late stages of liver cancer, she ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
retirement home, elderly, slice of life, senior citizen, old man, lifestyle, elderly man, retired, society, house, compassion, family drama ...
Place:
china
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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, emotional, touching, semi serious, existential ...
Plot:
retirement home, gay couple, elderly, israeli, dilemma, death wish, friendship, dark humor, life is a bitch, dealing with death, mercy killing, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A greater Vienna seniors home is run like a prison by the stuck up female executive and staff. Hipie type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire some ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, feel good, uplifting
Audience:
adult
Plot:
retirement home, elderly woman, music band, retirement home life, elderly man, rebelliousness, elderly, senior citizen, music, musician, rebel, friendship ...
Place:
vienna, austria
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
Style:
touching, sincere, inspirational, uplifting, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot:
wrestling, friendship, down syndrome, raft, follow your dream, escape, disability, boat, mental disorder, coming of age, friend, chase ...
Time:
future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
florida, america, north carolina, north america, richmond virginia ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
No one seems to know why Dusty Craters, a dilapidated nursing home, is floating through space carrying a colorful assortment of grumpy old folks under the care of an evil goat doctor. But then again nothing seems to make sense in a world where a ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, adult animation, buddy comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
retirement home, space, space travel, space exploration, adult humor, friendship, space and aliens, silly humor, retirement home life, surrealism, old man, absurd humor ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Tyler Perry's new musical stage play starring the infamous Mabel Simmons or "Madea" as her fans know her. When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home the residents and staff are not ready ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
madea, retirement home, african american protagonist, stage play, aging, old man, lifestyle, female protagonist, satire, old age, african american, live performance ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, entertaining, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
retirement home, grandfather grandson relationship, satire, world war two veteran, grandson, teamwork, old man, escapades, family relations, retirement home life, dementia, memory ...
Time:
80s
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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:
couple relations, single parent, hopes, family relations, retirement home, follow your dream, obsessive quest, nanny, inspiration, backpacking, dull life, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ontario canada, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Erkin, who works as a watchman at the lighthouse, is a lonely man in his mid-thirties. Erkin, crushed under his credit debts, one day receives the news of his grandfather's death. A big surprise awaits Erkin, who immediately goes to his ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, retirement home, lighthouse keeper, life, problem, family relations, relationships, debt, satire, grandfather grandson relationship, family problems, reconciliation ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Croatia, USA, Turkey, Denmark, Netherlands
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, entertaining, absurd, semi serious, road movie ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
escape, retirement home, violent, sarcasm, deadpan, brutality, aging, cold war, runaway, storytelling, dark humor, escapades ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, spain, russia, scandinavia, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mysterious, sexy, black comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
doppelganger, shyness, losing-it hero, surrealism, depression, suicide, dark humor, employer employee relationship, cemetery, office, workplace, loser ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
britain, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After repeatedly failing their missions, Detectives Bene, Boris, Jegel, and Oki are given one last chance: to go undercover in a nursing home in search of a fugitive wanted for the murder of the mayor’s child.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, crime thriller, dark comedy, twist ending ...
Plot:
retirement home, undercover, murder investigation, buddy cop, police procedural, child murder, cat and mouse, ambush, interrogation, claustrophobia, disguise, corruption ...
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon ...
Style:
life affirming, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, dark comedy
Plot:
retirement home, aging, friendship, hopes, mortality, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, ageism, second chance, desperation ...
Place:
australia
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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:
tense, scary, atmospheric, serious, period drama
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted house, uncover truth, investigation, retirement home, haunted by the past, puzzle, witnessing a crime, haunted, violent death, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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