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62) The elderly
Language
Español
Description
After his beloved wife suddenly commits suicide, octogenarian Manuel starts behaving strangely. He becomes aggressive, still believes that he's talking with his dead wife, and even tries to implant a radioreceptor into his chest to communicate with her. His family is confused an angry, and as the temperature rises in a summer heat wave, it appears that Manuel isn't the only senior citizen preparing for something otherworldly. All the elderly folk...
63) Hukkle
Language
Hungarian
Description
A mesmerizing symphony of sight and sound that chronicles a series of mysterious interconnected events both idyllic and sinister, from an elderly man's hiccup (or hukkle) to a microscopic menagerie of animals.
64) Adieu Paris
Series
Language
Français
Description
It tells the story of eight friends, mostly in their seventies, who meet up for an annual lunch that has become a ritual over the decades. They are the so-called self-appointed 'kings of Paris': national treasures, masterpieces in peril, whose humor and self-mockery have never changed. Tender and cruel, they love and hate each other. But their long-established relationships take on new meanings when an intruder steps in.
65) Ghost story
Language
English
Description
About the Members of the Chowder Society, who get together each week to share tales of horror. Soon, however, a secret terror invades the group, and one by one, they die mysteriously because of a real life ghost story that is part of their past.
Series
Language
English
Description
"The scene is Victorian London, where [a] wealthy widow is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fiancé. [A] highly respected barrister is engaged to defend her in court who 40 years earlier had been his lover. He is driven to hilarious distraction by her adamant insistence that she has never seen him before in her life"--Container.
68) Still mine
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Language
Français
Description
When Edmund is placed in a care facility after taking a bad fall, he discovers that his son has sold his apartment. Determined to reclaim his autonomy, he leaves the facility with Rose, an empathetic nurse still suffering from the loss of her unborn child. However, the unlikely friends must face the consequences when Edmund is reported missing.
Language
English
Description
Helena and Jacob decide to run away together from their retirement home. With their lives changed in an instant, they travel off the beaten path to avoid detection, through remote areas in a car that has no reverse. Like fugitives they take on one last adventure, trying to make it on a ship Helena didn't board 60 years earlier.
72) The owners
Language
English
Description
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score, an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
73) Translated
Language
English
Description
An old man is about to be executed in ancient Rome and then finds himself translated to the 21st Century where he is confused and homeless. A truck driver picks him up in Rome, Oregon and discovers that the old man claims to be the Apostle Paul. In the spirit of Miracle on 34th Street, humor with a message is presented and a poignant commentary is made about condition of the Body of Christ in the U.S. and their lack of unity.
75) Humor me
Language
English
Description
A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate is struggling to finish a play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob, in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical and agrees to help, but quickly realizes it will not be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate.
76) The whisperers
Series
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Ross is an eccentric elderly woman living alone in a meager apartment and hearing 'whisperers' that plot against her. The whispering voices are right, but will anyone believe her?
77) Gerontophilia
Language
English
Description
In this wry "reverse Lolita" tale, eighteen year old Lake discovers he has an unusual attraction for the elderly. Fate lands him a job at an assisted-living facility where he develops an intimate relationship with Mr. Peabody. He discovers that the clients are being over-medicated to make them more manageable, so Lake weans Mr. Peabody off his medication and helps him escape.
79) Octav
Language
Romanian
Description
An elderly man returns to his childhood villa in Romania with the intention of selling it. Arriving there after a decades-long absence, Octav wanders through the atmospheric house and undulating grounds that surround it, and is confronted and transformed by the memories of his youth.
Language
English
Description
The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fianc.̌ Olivier is the highly respected barrister engaged to defend Hepburn in court. The usually reserved Olivier relishes the opportunity to see Hepburn, who 40 years earlier had been his lover. He is driven to hilarious distraction by Hepburn₂s adamant insistence that she has never seen him before in her life.