# The best films about Alzheimer's

Children caring for their parents, couples losing each other and friends in a care home: from Son of the Bride and Away from Her to Wrinkles and Nebraska, the Pasqual Maragall Foundation's selection.

- 180 votes · 15 items
- Aug 30, 2020 · Romina Costa Herrera
- https://even.best/en/l/4592/the-best-films-about-alzheimer-s

## Top 15

1. **Wrinkles (2011)** (20 · ▲22 ▼2) — Ignacio Ferreras. Two old men in a care home, from Paco Roca's comic.
2. **Son of the Bride (2001)** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — Juan José Campanella. Ricardo Darín and a mother who no longer recognises him.
3. **The Good Herbs (2010)** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — María Novaro. A daughter and her ethnobotanist mother with early-onset Alzheimer's.
4. **Away from Her (2006)** (11 · ▲13 ▼2) — Sarah Polley. Julie Christie decides to move into a care home when her memory starts to go.
5. **Coming Home (2014)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Zhang Yimou. A Cultural Revolution prisoner returns and his wife doesn't recognise him.
6. **A Song for Martin (2001)** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — Bille August. A conductor and his violinist wife.
7. **Pandora's Box (2008)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Yeşim Ustaoğlu. Three siblings search for their missing mother on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
8. **Quartet (2012)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Dustin Hoffman. A home for retired musicians.
9. **A Separation (2011)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Asghar Farhadi. An Iranian family and the father with Alzheimer's. Oscar for foreign-language film.
10. **Nebraska (2013)** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Alexander Payne. Bruce Dern as an old man with signs of dementia, on the road with his son.
11. **Bicycle, Spoon, Apple (2010)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Carles Bosch. Documentary about Pasqual Maragall and his illness. Goya for best documentary.
12. **Still Mine (2012)** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — Michael McGowan. James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold against the red tape that keeps them apart.
13. **¿Y tú quién eres? (2007)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Antonio Mercero. His last film, made as he began to show symptoms.
14. **Remember (2015)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Atom Egoyan. Christopher Plummer as an Auschwitz survivor with dementia seeking revenge.
15. **Robot & Frank (2012)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Jake Schreier. A retired thief with dementia and his robot carer.

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