Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "elderly-protagonist"

1. I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age.

Director: Brett Haley | Stars: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott, Malin Akerman

Votes: 8,466 | Gross: $7.43M

2. Up (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 1,125,556 | Gross: $293.00M

3. Gran Torino (2008)

R | 116 min | Drama

After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her

Votes: 815,204 | Gross: $148.10M

4. Youth (I) (2015)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda

Votes: 83,104 | Gross: $2.70M

5. Cocoon (1985)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

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

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy

Votes: 68,851 | Gross: $76.11M

6. The Straight Story (1999)

G | 112 min | Biography, Drama

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Votes: 97,510 | Gross: $6.20M

7. Nebraska (2013)

R | 115 min | Drama

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk

Votes: 123,552 | Gross: $17.65M

8. The Bucket List (2007)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd

Votes: 259,927 | Gross: $93.47M

9. Mr. Holmes (2015)

PG | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Family

An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan

Votes: 67,905 | Gross: $17.74M

10. Mother (2009)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yun Je-mun

Votes: 71,675 | Gross: $0.55M

11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)

108 min | Drama

Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking.

Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Earl Cave, Linda Bassett

Votes: 4,378

12. Grumpy Old Men (1993)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith

Votes: 53,845 | Gross: $70.17M

13. *batteries not included (1987)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them.

Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña

Votes: 37,710 | Gross: $32.95M

14. Harry Brown (2009)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Director: Daniel Barber | Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles

Votes: 91,390 | Gross: $1.82M

15. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.

Director: Robert D. Krzykowski | Stars: Sam Elliott, Rocco Gioffre, Aidan Turner, Melissa Jalali

Votes: 13,810

16. The Lady in the Van (2015)

PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond

Votes: 31,997 | Gross: $10.02M

17. Grumpier Old Men (1995)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches Max's attention.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren

Votes: 29,746 | Gross: $71.52M

18. Stan Against Evil (2016–2018)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

An aging police sheriff begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.

Stars: John C. McGinley, Janet Varney, Deborah Baker Jr., Nate Mooney

Votes: 6,517

19. Remember (I) (2015)

R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith, Martin Landau

Votes: 27,857 | Gross: $0.64M

20. Cocoon: The Return (1988)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

The seniors return to Earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on Earth?

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn

Votes: 17,336 | Gross: $18.92M

21. That Evening Sun (2009)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama

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.

Director: Scott Teems | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Barlow Jacobs, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston

Votes: 2,911 | Gross: $0.28M

22. Tea With the Dames (2018)

Unrated | 84 min | Documentary

Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright

Votes: 2,838 | Gross: $0.87M

23. Love Is Strange (2014)

R | 94 min | Drama, Romance

After Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing -- a situation that weighs heavily on all involved.

Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Charlie Tahan

Votes: 13,305 | Gross: $2.25M

24. Get Low (2009)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Mystery

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Director: Aaron Schneider | Stars: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black

Votes: 24,034 | Gross: $9.18M

25. Robot & Frank (2012)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.

Director: Jake Schreier | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler

Votes: 65,780 | Gross: $3.33M

26. Superior Donuts (2017–2018)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Sympathetic old-school doughnut-shop owner Arthur, his spunky young employee and aspiring artist Franco, and their friends and patrons keep the shop going in a changing culturally-mixed inner-city Chicago neighborhood.

Stars: Jermaine Fowler, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Katey Sagal

Votes: 3,502

27. Elsa & Fred (2014)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A withdrawn senior experiences life in new ways when he begins spending time with the free-spirited woman who lives across the hall.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 3,733

28. Last Love (2013)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck | Stars: Michael Caine, Michelle Goddet, Jane Alexander, Serge Hollogne

Votes: 13,249

29. The Odd Couple II (1998)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy

Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle, Jonathan Silverman

Votes: 10,723 | Gross: $18.91M

30. Sir Billi (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he's a dog, an Admiral who's afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.

Director: Sascha Hartmann | Stars: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Alana Gray, Valentina Hartmann

Votes: 798

31. The Amusement Park (1975)

54 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare.

Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lincoln Maazel, Harry Albacker, Phyllis Casterwiler, Pete Chovan

Votes: 3,171

32. The Nan Movie (2022)

95 min | Adventure, Comedy

Catherine Tate's iconic character Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her grandson Jamie to make amends with her estranged sister Nell.

Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Paul Reid, Emer Hedderman, Rosalie Craig, Nia Mulrennan

Votes: 1,470

33. The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)

95 min | Crime, Drama

Veteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Anna Sinyakina, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, Sergey Garmash

Votes: 4,867

34. Evilenko (2003)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer

Votes: 3,542

35. Is Anybody There? (2008)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama

A lonely boy who lives in his parents' home for the elderly explores his obsession with the afterlife through his friendship with an aging magician.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, Ralph Riach

Votes: 5,002 | Gross: $2.02M

36. Into the Blue (I) (1997 TV Movie)

120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Harry Barnett is a failed businessman who used to run a garage until he went bankrupt. He is now living on the island of Rhodes, looking after the villa of a friend, Alan Dysart, a former ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Tom Towndrow, Vida Garman, Abigail Cruttenden

Votes: 132

37. I'm Not Rappaport (1996)

PG-13 | 135 min | Comedy, Drama

Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.

Director: Herb Gardner | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson

Votes: 1,860 | Gross: $0.22M

38. O'Horten (2007)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement.

Director: Bent Hamer | Stars: Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan

Votes: 3,987 | Gross: $0.30M

39. The Food Flirts (2018– )

25 min | Documentary, Comedy

The Brass Sisters, two charming elderly ladies and foodies, have a culinary bucket list. In each episode, their producer, Bruce, takes them to try some new dishes and see how they are made. They also make their own dishes for the crew.mm.

Stars: Marilyn Brass, Sheila Brass, Bruce Seidel

Votes: 43

40. And that's for this Christmas (2024)

14 min | Short, Drama

While preparing the details for his own funeral, an elderly man realizes that he will be celebrating Christmas alone. Unable to fall asleep, he decides to spend the holiday at the grave of his deceased wife.

Director: Peter Vulchev | Stars: Lyubomir Bachvarov, Katelina Kancheva, Kalina Staneva

41. Sella Turcica (2017)

75 min | Drama

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Director: Yusup Razykov | Stars: Vitali Daushev, Sergey Genkin, Ilya Kovrizhnykh, Valeri Maslov

Votes: 68

42. Bob & Dale (2019)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama

An elderly gay couple living off the grid in the Rocky Mountains finds a deeper love together when dementia threatens their independence.

Director: David Rosfeld | Stars: Mark Hattan, Robert W Smith, Annie Butler, Logan Ernstthal

Votes: 20

43. Suzanne jour après jour (2023 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary

Suzanne serenely takes life as it comes. She lives alone in the Vosges, in her family home where she was born in 1930, that lacks all sense of comfort. She savors with laughter all the simple pleasures of life, embodying happy sobriety.

Directors: Stéphane Manchematin, Serge Steyer | Stars: Suzanne Claudel, Marie-Paule Gérard, Florent Vanson, Julien Félix

44. Armed & Delirious (1997 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

In a crazy world that's part surreal Looney Tunes and part twisted Alice in Wonderland with a plethora of moon-logic puzzles, a demented granny searches for her family and her cookbook taken by a vengeful universe-controlling "rabbit".

Director: Benny Davidovich | Star: Monica Buferd

Votes: 6

45. To Catch a Fish (II) (2018)

6 min | Short, Drama

An aging fisherman tries to cope with his loneliness by revisiting the moments his father taught him how to fish as a child.

Director: Casey Jacobs | Stars: Robert W Smith, Maxim Swinton, Erik Endsley

46. The Last Checkmate (2014)

26 min | Short, Drama

A chamber piece about a piece with one in the chamber.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Bob Elkins, Ernie Rowland

47. L'Air de rien (2022)

14 min | Animation, Short, Family

In a sanatorium near the sea, an ill elderly man befriends a seagull and recovers his taste for life while taking care of the bird after it got wounded.

Director: Gabriel Hénot Lefèvre | Stars: Christian De Smet, Sébastien Lemoine

Votes: 7

48. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Hunted: Part 1 (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man holds a real estate agent hostage in an office and threatens to shoot people from the window.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Edward Woodward, Kate Trotter, Elizabeth Lennie, James Hobson

Votes: 99

49. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: The Pumpkin Competition (1986)

G | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Rich, stingy and miserly Elma Dinnock is livid at losing the Yarborough Country pumpkin-growing contest 22 years in a row, and so gets help from a mysterious botanist for the next competition. Will she finally triumph?

Director: Norman Reynolds | Stars: Polly Holliday, June Lockhart, J.A. Preston, Ritch Brinkley

Votes: 208

50. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: You Gotta Believe Me (1986)

Not Rated | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Convinced that his vivid nightmare of a Boeing 747 crashing into his house is a horrific premonition, Earl Sweet desperately tries to alter fate.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Charles Durning, Mary Betten, Ebbe Roe Smith, Wil Shriner

Votes: 269