Movies and TvShows featuring "elderly-widow" theme.

After the death of her dog and the loss of her husband, a widow finds new purpose in life when she forms new friendships with a group of friends at a retirement community. She also meets a new romantic interest and discovers the joy of living in the present.

The Amusement Park follows an unnamed elderly protagonist as he navigates through a surreal amusement park. The film serves as an allegory for age discrimination and the challenges faced by the elderly. It explores themes of isolation, depression, and violence, all portrayed in a surreal and thought-provoking manner.

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.

After the death of her husband, a lonely widow named Joyce decides to rent out a room in her house to make ends meet. She becomes obsessed with her new tenant, Bob, and starts interfering in his life. As Joyce's actions become increasingly bizarre and dangerous, Bob realizes that he is in deep trouble.

An elderly woman (Edith Ivey) visits the local car wash and lube to connect with the world closing in around her.

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.

A documentary that explores the realities and challenges faced by residents living in the Villages, a retirement community in Florida. It delves into their pursuits of love, happiness, and purpose in their golden years, while also examining topics such as drugs, golf, living in a van, widowhood, and courtroom drama.

Sisters is a TV show that follows the lives of four sisters as they navigate the challenges and triumphs of life in the 1990s. With their dead father, a gay parent, and a lesbian mother, these sisters face unique family dynamics while also dealing with marriage, rehabilitation, alcoholism, and sibling relationships. Through it all, they rely on their strong bond as sisters to support and uplift each other.

Roseland is a movie with three different stories set in the ballroom dance palace, Roseland. It explores themes of love, loneliness, and ballroom dancing. The movie showcases the lives of various characters, including a gigolo, a dance teacher, and a widow. As they navigate their relationships and dreams, the audience gets a glimpse into the world of ballroom dancing and the emotions that dance can evoke.

An elderly blind woman is unaware of the stranger secretly living in her home.

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.

An elderly widow finds companionship with a garden gnome but begins to feel alone when it disappears truly; then mysterious postcards follow.

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.