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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
60 films tagged getting old, showing 50
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2025 · Comedy
A couple married 65 years die a week apart and reach an afterlife waiting room, where each person picks one eternity and stays in it. Her first husband, killed young in Korea, has been waiting.
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Little-known
2012 · Drama
An elderly Paris couple, both retired music teachers, are living quietly together when the wife has a stroke and her husband takes on her care. Almost all of it happens inside their apartment.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An ageing Colombian poet whose obsession has brought him nothing meets a teenage girl with real talent and sets about cultivating it. A tragicomedy that stays close to one man.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A romance between two people born on the same day in 1931, followed across ninety years of Spanish history. It is told in eight unbroken takes.
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2025 · Comedy
Four hapless Jakarta police officers, one bungled raid away from losing their jobs, go undercover in a nursing home to find out who killed the mayor's son. An Indonesian comedy with a big cast of residents.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
An ageing hitman is offered a deal for his freedom. The story then runs twice, once straight as a thriller and once as a broad comedy, and the whole thing is barely an hour long.
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2025 · Drama
A woman stretched between her ailing parents, a strained marriage and a house in the country strikes up a friendship with a struggling single mother nearby. It stays close to the two of them.
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2025 · Horror
A man is talked into looking after his ex-girlfriend's senile mother, and the job starts to work on his mind. A horror film built around the two of them.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about a tech millionaire trying to reverse his own ageing, with a daily regimen of food, drugs and measurement, and plasma passed between his father, himself and his son. It also looks at what it costs his family.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
The Italian stage actress Eleonora Duse goes back to work after the First World War, at an age when her body will not do what she asks of it. Slow and quiet, as much about the power around her as about the theatre.
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2025 · Drama
In a crumbling mansion in north Calcutta, a young woman holds the household together after her husband disappears weeks into their marriage. She opens the house up for Durga Puja, and the first guest changes the mood of it.
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2025 · Comedy
A singer of seventy who will never perform again takes the train to Switzerland to end his life, and shares it with a woman let out of prison for her daughter's wedding. Mostly the two of them, talking.
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2013 · Romance
Nine years on, Jesse and Celine are together with twin daughters and spending the last day of a summer in Greece. It is nearly all the two of them talking, in takes that run for many minutes at a time.
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2025 · Mystery
Four residents of a retirement village meet weekly to pick over cold cases, and then a man behind the plan to redevelop the village is murdered. Comfortable and chatty, more sleuthing than danger.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
After his mother dies, a New York transit mechanic spends her life insurance on a Staten Island restaurant with a kitchen staffed entirely by grandmothers. Warm, slow and based on a real place.
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2025 · Comedy
Forty years on, the man who filmed Spinal Tap finds the band scattered into cheese shops and glue museums, and bound by an old contract to play one last show. A mockumentary, straight-faced throughout.
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2025 · Drama
A career thief breaks into a house in Kanyakumari and finds an old man with Alzheimer's chained to a window, who mistakes him for his son and offers him money to be let go. The two end up on a road trip, and the thief keeps finding reasons to stay.
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2025 · Comedy
An elderly London painter's children secretly hire a young artist to finish the series he abandoned, planning to sell it after he dies. He is sharper than they think, and it is mostly two people in a studio.
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2025 · Horror
A graffiti artist works off a vandalism charge as caretaker of a retirement home, and is told to stay off the fourth floor. The residents start behaving strangely, and he goes up anyway.
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2025 · Action
A contract killer in her sixties, still the best the agency has, is slowing down, and a younger assassin has become fixated on her. The film keeps going back to how she was trained as a girl.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In a Brazil that ships its old people off to state colonies, a 77-year-old slips onto a boat up the Amazon instead, wanting one plane ride before she goes. It is a quiet trip among strangers.
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2025 · Drama
A publishing house owner in his forties is worn down by work and a strained marriage when his mother, a retired nurse recovering from surgery, starts coming to the office and takes a job there. Most of it is the daily business of one workplace.
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2025 · Drama
A post office clerk who published one book of poems fifty years ago is tracked down by a young admirer and taken up by a circle of rich would-be writers who treat him as a lost master. It is small and quiet, and it stays with him.
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2026 · Drama
An elderly widow cleaning an aquarium at night keeps company with a captive octopus, and takes in a broke young musician who turns up in town needing work. It moves slowly and stays with the three of them.
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2026 · Comedy
A forty-year-old ad man added to a stranger's group chat by mistake takes the invitation seriously and turns up in Miami for their bachelor party weekend. Loud, broad comedy about being the oldest man in the room.
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2026 · Drama
The director of a Paris nursing home tries to get her overworked staff to take up a gentler way of caring for people with dementia, and meets a Japanese playwright who is dying. Over three hours, and most of it is people talking.
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2026 · Drama
A once-famous musician living with dementia is visited by the son he fell out with years ago. Slow, and mostly the two of them and the woman who has stayed close to him.
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2026 · Drama
A pianist gives up her career and moves the family to the countryside for her partner's sake, and then he is arrested over child abuse images. The investigator on the case is caring for her own father.
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2026 · Documentary
An elderly Ruc woman born in a cave lives with her extended family in rural Vietnam, teaching the children words from a language that is nearly gone. Shot on 16mm, and built from moments.
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2026 · Drama
A professor calls the police on her step-father after finding him in bed with her mother, who has dementia, then moves home to look after her. It is slow and stays inside the family house.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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Little-known
2022 · Drama
A buttoned-up London council clerk in 1953, going through the motions of a job he has done for decades, gets a diagnosis and starts trying to get one small thing built. Quiet, polite and very slow on purpose.
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2017 · Action
An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.
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2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
A woman and her grown daughter drive out to the old family house when the grandmother goes missing, and she comes back with no idea where she has been. Slow, damp, and mostly three women in one house.
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2004 · Comedy
Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.
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2012 · Action
A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Drama
An old man in London keeps turning down the help his daughter arranges, and the film is put together from inside his head, so rooms and faces do not stay put. Almost all of it is one flat and two or three people talking.
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2019 · Crime
A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.
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2013 · Romance
Mumbai's lunchbox service delivers a wife's cooking to the wrong desk, and the man who eats it writes back. Most of the film is two people passing notes, in a city that never stops moving.
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2024 · Horror
A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.
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2019 · Drama
A cardinal comes to Rome to hand in his resignation and ends up spending days arguing with Pope Benedict about the church. Two men talking, in gardens and chapels, with jokes.
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2009 · Animation
A widowed balloon seller ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it towards South America, with an eight-year-old scout on the porch by accident. Bright and funny, with one very sad stretch early on.
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2022 · Horror
A small crew drive out to a farm in 1979 Texas to shoot a dirty film in the barn, without telling the elderly couple who own the place what they are doing. Slow for a while, and then not.
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Little-known
2015 · Drama
A week before their anniversary party a letter arrives about a woman the husband knew fifty years ago. Two people in a quiet house, and everything happens in what they do not say.
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2013 · Comedy
A divorced masseuse starts seeing a man she likes and befriends a woman who turns out to be his ex-wife. Small, adult, and mostly conversation.
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1997 · Crime
A flight attendant running cash for an arms dealer is caught by federal agents and tries to play both sides. Slower and warmer than it sounds, built around one handover.
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