elderly widow
12 movies and shows
Room for Rent
Fri, 03 May 2019
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
I'll See You in My Dreams
Fri, 15 May 2015
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.
Roseland
Sun, 02 Oct 1977
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York City dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Bite
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
Pursued by a dangerous criminal after a failed theft, con artists Nina and Yaz get way more than they bargained for when they target a seemingly innocent elderly widow called Beryl. Incarcerated in a nightmare version of suburbia and consumed with fear, Nina and Yaz find themselves fighting desperately for their lives against Beryl’s family of deranged and hungry psychopaths.
Some Kind of Heaven
Fri, 19 Feb 2021
Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.
The Amusement Park
Wed, 02 Jun 2021
An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the midst of a hellish nightmare.
Valley of the Rulers
Thu, 21 Feb 2019
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.
The Car Wash
Sat, 20 Feb 2010
An elderly woman (Edith Ivey) visits the local car wash and lube to connect with the world closing in around her.
The Postcards
Mon, 30 Sep 2024
An elderly widow finds companionship with a garden gnome but begins to feel alone when it disappears truly; then mysterious postcards follow.
Supermarket Affairs
Sun, 05 Feb 2023
A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and inadvertently involve a handsome stranger at the local Asian supermarket.
Yarn Over
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Yarn Over is a stop motion animation about loneliness in older adults. The short film tells the story of a widowed man finding solace in a local knitting group. This narrative aims to encourage older adults to participate in social events to combat isolation.