Tag: alzheimer’s disease

  • Gray Sunset

    Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer’s disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan’s submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

  • Bird on a Wire

    An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.

  • Vortex

    Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

  • Beautiful Memories

    Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who…

  • Iris

    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

  • After the Deluge

    Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex’s marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father’s mental state.…

  • Noel

    Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but…

  • A Moment to Remember

    A young couple’s love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Thanmathra

    A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease leaving his family devastated.

  • Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara

    Once known for his intellectual prowess, a retired professor (Anupam Kher) begins experiencing memory gaps and periods of forgetfulness. But while he tries to laugh it off, it soon becomes clear that the symptoms are a sign of a more serious illness, prompting his grown daughter (Urmila Matondkar) to move in as his caretaker. Meanwhile,…

  • Memories of Tomorrow

    After being stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.

  • The Bad Mother’s Handbook

    Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she’s its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.

  • Away from Her

    Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

  • The Savages

    A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

  • Choke

    A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

  • Hollow

    A woman with early signs of Alzheimer’s begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. She uncovers something sinister is observing her every move.

  • Poetry

    A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson’s appalling wrongdoing.

  • A Separation

    A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Friends with Benefits

    Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction – but without any emotional attachment.

  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

  • Still Alice

    Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.