10 Best Old People Movies of All Time (The Cinemaholic)

"Growing old on film, dealing with the elderly can be deeply moving when done right, when presented with compassion and honesty. Far too often, films about the aging go radically off track, in the wrong direction, with a barrage of toilet jokes, fart jokes, bowel movement comedy, sex jokes, just terrible bottom of the barrel humour that is more insulting that anything else. Why not portray the elderly as they are? Just like us only perhaps a little slower, not as sharp mentally (some not all), they struggle with what they do not understand, they may not hear as well, but they represent our past, and in many ways our future. My God the things they have seen! My parents can tell me what it was like to live through the World War II, in arrival of television, rock & roll, the Beatles, the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. They are a window into the past, and my past, and they are a preview of where I am going. Here's the list of top movies about old people ever." - thecinemaholic.com