A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his cantankerous roommate who obviously harbours resentment towards his family for putting him out to seed – the sailor gently whisks up an atmosphere of hope and happiness and allows the movie to deliver its beautifully simple message: that life should be savoured until the bitter end.
Under the thumb of Nurse Baker, Nurse Maggie Collins struggles to care for the long-term residents o...
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woma...
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into th...
Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So...
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...
Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He a...
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from...
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physica...
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find them...
A young man accompanies his mother to a nursing home where he meets don Manuel, a World War II veter...
Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and...
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a pr...
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty year...
Faced with a future of chair-xercise and spoon-fed pudding, nursing home friends Nora and Edna attem...
After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girl...
Nelly McDermott, the granddaughter of a prominent politician, loses her husband, architect Adam Caul...