reminiscing
30 movies and shows
Aftersun
Fri, 21 Oct 2022
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
Gutter
Sat, 25 Mar 2023
Mist. Dust. A bowling alley in the crosshair of a thunderstorm. A pregnant woman, a businessman and a widower find shelter in its midst. Pins are knocked down until gloomy moths kindle an outage.
A Walk in the Woods
Wed, 02 Sep 2015
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Fri, 28 Jul 1939
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
License to Live
Sat, 23 Jan 1999
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Nothing Like a Dame
Wed, 02 May 2018
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
My Last Five Girlfriends
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan – determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, – flashes back to his last five relationships (in the last four years) and considers what caused each one to fail. Based on the novel 'Essays in Love' by Alain de Botton.
Gable: The King Remembered
Wed, 26 Feb 1975
Friends and co-workers recall the life of Hollywood screen star Clark Gable.
The Old Grey Hare
Sat, 28 Oct 1944
Failed hunter Elmer Fudd laments that he's never able to catch the rabbit (Bugs Bunny); just then a bolt of lightning strikes, and the voice of God takes him through a flash-forward to the year 2000. Elmer and Bugs, now both elderly, look back to when they first met as babies.
Born to Peck
Mon, 25 Feb 1952
An elderly, suicidal Woody Woodpecker reminisces about his life as a woodpecker, as his ability to peck wood has vanished, leaving his life seemingly without energy.
Abrase
Wed, 08 Apr 2015
The fading love of two men, remembered. A relationship once vivid, now dissipating into a fog of partial remembrance; the memories of heartbreak and loss that bend and change as the years go by.
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Tue, 09 Nov 2004
This documentary is featured in the 4-disc Collector's Edition DVD set, released in 2004, for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Crosswords
Mon, 15 Jul 2024
The daily crosswords-and-coffee ritual, when difficult to decipher, revives the memories of a woman's household, materialized in the spaces of her residence, in a disarrangement of times and places.
Hamish & Andy’s Reministmas Special
Sun, 21 Nov 2010
Fact: When Christmas and reminiscing combine you get a Reministmas Special! Join Hamish & Andy as they look back on a year of unrivaled silliness!
Steps / Qayler
Mon, 01 Jan 1962
The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.
The Performers Act V - Kai
Wed, 11 Dec 2019
For the latest short film in collaboration with GQ and Vogue, director Lucy Luscombe encouraged Kai—member of K-Pop supergroup EXO—to travel back through time and place, an exercise that proved to uncover personal memories about his family and the origins of his love for dance and choreography.
Paulo and His Brother
Wed, 28 May 1997
Paulo and his brother, both deaf, lie on their childhood bed and remember: dance of signs, dance of bodies, meaningful language.
God for a Day
Sat, 11 Dec 2010
A lament of love and emotions lost in time. The spirit of Joanna looks back at a time when she was in love and all her future was full of joy with the man of her dreams. Letting go of her sorrow, Joanna now understands that things can never be all we hoped for. We need to live our life to the fullest. Being thankful of the little moments that bring us happiness. A bitter sweet remembrance of the beginning and ending of a relationship, of what could have been a lasting romance but was not to be.