On this page we offer recommendations for movies that seniors enjoy.
Each week there are new recommendations. These movies avoid senior deaths, difficult accents, movies that are depressing, childish, with excessive swearing or violence and those subtitled. However, there are exceptions to this list that are included.
| Special Day | Genre | Movie | Year | Cast | Blurb | Note | Week Nbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romance | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard | Can a woman who runs away from who she is, figure out what she wants and not be afraid to accept it? Two people who "go with the flow" meet as neighbors and form a friendship. The movie is about their lives and their relationships. This is classic. | Note: based on a book by Truman Capote | 42 | |
| Musical | Oliver! | 1968 | Oliver Reed, Mark Lester | This follows the story of a young orphan who gets to London and falls in with the wrong crowd. Good does come to him in the end. This is fun with impressive choreography. | Note: The accents at the beginning of the movie are extremely hard to understand. Some of the songs are also hard to understand. The original story, written by Charles Dickens is familiar and easy to follow. This begins with an Overture. | 42 | |
| Comedy | Ghost Breakers | 1940 | Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard | A reporter ends up in a woman's trunk on the way to Cuba. She inherited a "haunted" mansion and is being threatened while on her way to visit it. He offers to help and be a ghost breaker, assuming exposing the fraud will stop the threats. A good Bob Hope romp. | 42 | ||
| Mystery/Action | Space Cowboys | 2000 | Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland | Called out of retirement as the only hope, NASA astronauts must prepare to intercept a Russian satellite to prevent it from falling to earth. | 42 | ||
| Western/War | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | 1957 | Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr | A handsome marine and a beautiful nun are stranded on a desert island in the South Pacific. Soon the Japanese arrive and they go into hiding. Having to rely on each other and work together is a new experience for both of them. | 42 | ||
| Classic/Childrens/Science Fiction | To Kill A Mocking Bird | 1962 | Gregory Peck, Mary Badham | This movie is based on a book about Southern life in the 1930s. The story is from the daughter, Scouts perspective. She plays with her brother, is scared by stories of a crazy neighbor and watches her father defend a black man in court. | Note: Based on a classic novel by Harper Lee | 42 | |
| Biography/Documentary | Carol Channing: Larger Than Life | 2011 | Carol Channing | A delightful introduction to a "larger than life" character from an intimate perspective. The film tags along with Carol and her relatively new husband. Many interviews bring out who she is and what she has done; her humor and her life on stage. | Note: watch until the end to catch a couple cute clips in the credits. | 42 | |
| Alternate | Gotcha! | 1985 | Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino | A college student, good at a mock assassin game, gets wrapped up with a beautiful Czech girl in Europe who plants information on him in East Berlin. With trials, he gets home, and finding the information calls the CIA. The bad guys almost get him first. | 42 |