Retirement Movies

A story of a mythic samurai coming out of retirement for one final battle.

A documentary in which retired industrial workers reflect on the promises and anxieties of retirement. Beginning with the Budd Company’s...

Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby.

Filmed during and after his time on the High Court of Australia, this documentary about Justice Michael Kirby explores the personal, moral and...

Playing with FIRE captures the truths and dispels the myths of the growing culture known as FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early.

Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness,...

Pandelis is a garbageman who is anxiously waiting to retire and receive his well-earned superannuation payout. His wife and mother-in-law are also...

An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where...

Daniel moves into a Seniors' residence because he is lonely. There he meets Violet and they fall in love. However, Violet's daughter-in-law does not...

After spending 25 years as a domestic worker, Edilsa faces the reality of unemployment in an era where all the rules seem to have changed.

A documentary about retirement. Ton's work is his life. When he retires, he looses everything. His wife does not recognize him anymore. Tjeerd starts...

In the 1990s, a long time TV host from the Azores Islands comes to terms with his career's end in a turbulent fashion.

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that...

The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to...

What does an athlete do when the applause dies down? He creates a garden. Stanisław Chemicz, former coach of Cracovia and Wisła...