Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1950s", "old-age"

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,894,251 | Gross: $28.34M

2. Space Cowboys (2000)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

When retired engineer Frank Corvin is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner

Votes: 86,306 | Gross: $90.46M

3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

Votes: 696,704 | Gross: $127.51M

4. The Last Emperor (1987)

PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History

Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying

Votes: 111,658 | Gross: $43.98M

5. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone

Votes: 117,680 | Gross: $106.59M

6. Wild Strawberries (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 115,150

7. La Vie En Rose (2007)

PG-13 | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner

Votes: 90,811 | Gross: $10.30M

8. J. Edgar (2011)

R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton

Votes: 133,721 | Gross: $37.31M

9. Beginners (2010)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.

Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic

Votes: 94,861 | Gross: $5.79M

10. The Iron Lady (2011)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown

Votes: 113,677 | Gross: $30.02M

11. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans

Votes: 13,928 | Gross: $0.57M

12. Umberto D. (1952)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova

Votes: 28,254 | Gross: $0.07M

13. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy

An elderly amusement park maintenance man, Eddie, is trapped in purgatory and the only way out is to confront five people from his past. Unfortunately, dark secrets from his service in the Philippines begin to haunt him.

Director: Lloyd Kramer | Stars: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 6,142

14. The Nan Movie (2022)

95 min | Adventure, Comedy

Catherine Tate's iconic character Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her grandson Jamie to make amends with her estranged sister Nell.

Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Paul Reid, Emer Hedderman, Rosalie Craig, Nia Mulrennan

Votes: 1,472

15. Les Invisibles (2012)

115 min | Documentary, Romance

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless decision to live openly in France at a time when society rejected them.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Yann, Pierre, Bernard Romieu, Jacques

Votes: 680

16. The Brute (1953)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler

Votes: 2,261

17. Innocence (2000)

R | 94 min | Drama

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts

Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.29M

18. The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)

100 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some 'chums' when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. As he grows older he retains his image of this beautiful young girl with the red hair.... See full summary »

Director: Harold French | Stars: Moira Shearer, John Justin, Roland Culver, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 237

19. Eiszeit (1975)

115 min | Drama

An old man describes encounters with people, his childhood memories, whims, and offers thoughts and reflections on his current situation.

Director: Peter Zadek | Stars: O.E. Hasse, Hannelore Hoger, Walter Schmidinger, Ulrich Wildgruber

Votes: 58

20. Log Jammed (1959)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Woody Woodpecker gets into a mêlée with a lumberjack in the north woods. When the woodchopper chops down Woody's tree (home), and it winds up in the middle of a huge log-jam in the river, ... See full summary »

Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: Daws Butler, Grace Stafford, Mel Blanc

Votes: 53

21. The Lion's Busy (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Hungry Beaky Buzzard steadfastly waits for Leo the Lion to be decently deceased before trying to devour him.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 358

22. Opri (1954)

79 min | Comedy, Drama

Opri is a charming and gentle old woman, one of thousands evacuated from the Finnish Karelia just before the province was taken over by the Soviets in the Second World War. Spiritual Opri, ... See full summary »

Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Rakel Laakso, Elsa Turakainen, Elna Hellman, Liisa Pakarinen

Votes: 83

23. Kuuban valloittajat (2005)

88 min | Documentary

Nearly blind Maximiliano, 62, has been given an important task. He has been asked to fix Che Guevara's old car in Havana. Maximiliano's passion are old American cars, and the car he owns ... See full summary »

Director: Arto Halonen | Stars: Josefina Aldanas, Maximiliano Artiguet, Jorge Joerge, Eduardo Mesejo Maestro

Votes: 28

24. American Masters (1985– )
Episode: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on Gene Kelly.

Director: Robert Trachtenberg | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Fred Astaire, Jeanine Basinger, Betsy Blair

Votes: 377

25. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 23 November 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Hazlitt and Huie interview Oscar R. Ewing, the administrator of the Federal Security Agency. The topic discussed is the Truman administration's plan to add hospitalization benefits to the old age security program.

Director: Ted Estabrook | Stars: Oscar Ewing, Henry Hazlitt, William Bradford Huie, Frank Knight