75 Romantic Movies About Older People And Old Love To Watch

[{"selector":"#anim-042c0c5d-3eff-474b-867f-37486001305c","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":250,"duration":2000,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-7be67977-89dc-4106-a07e-996f118750b1","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(-177.04918%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":250,"duration":2000,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] While young love is often the go-to rom-com form, there is something to be said and gained from examining “old” love. Photo: Entertainment One Learn more

Love that has weathered a lifetime together. Love that blossoms despite and because of wrinkles and grey hairs. And love that faces the ultimate separation: dying.

[{"selector":"#anim-34a5caa5-f544-4a3b-b0a7-362f73531c20","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":200,"duration":1400,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-24c90fa7-3318-4e62-bac6-f838e42f436b","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(0px, 246.11111%, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":200,"duration":1400,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] Learn more

In celebration of National Grandparents Day, I’ve put together a list of movies about older people showcasing love in the later stages, “old” love, as it were.

Photo: Entertainment One Films Learn more

FINDING YOUR FEET (2017)

The snobbish, stay-at-home wife/mother/grandmother Sandra (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband of 40 years has been having an affair with her best friend. 01. Credit: StudioCanal Learn more

ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976)

02. The reunion of these old lovers is initially fraught with accusations and past hurts. Both are scarred, physically and emotionally. Photo: Columbia Pictures Learn more

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004)

03. An encounter with the Witch of the Waste has left the shy, dutiful Sophie cursed. She is now old, old beyond her years. Photo: Studio Ghibli Learn more

INNOCENCE (2000)

04. Circumstances beyond their control separated them a lifetime ago, but now – old and grey – they find the spark is still there. Learn more

OUR SOULS AT NIGHT (2017)

05. Louis and Addie have lived on the same street for ages; both are widowed; both are lonely. But their relationship has been one of the superficial niceties. Photo: Netflix Learn more