Movies: Alzheimer s disease

While battling Alzheimer’s disease, Deenie Hartzog-Mislock’s grandmother invents a wild story and the family learns to love an imaginary man named Nick Stephanopoulos....

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Suffering from Alzheimer's, a pensioner is facing his caregiver going mysteriously missing. Confused, he looks for her in his nursing home's hallways but he is prey to disturbing apparitions......

A young professional, Jackson makes a rare visit with his Grandfather and struggles to reconnect due to his Grandfather's dementia....

With the early onset of Alzheimer's at 52, John Mann, front man for Canadian Celtic rock band Spirit of the West, confronts the reality that he's losing grasp of the poetic and political lyrics he shared with millions....

This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the...

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A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to t...

Carl and Susan, husband and wife, scientist and artist, navigate the challenges of Carl’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis....

Documentary directed by Freddy Más, creator of the film Dawn of a Dream, which treats Alzheimer's disease from different points of view: patients, relatives, scientists, pedagogues. The documentary not only reflects the experience and testimony of th...

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Marina, a trans woman and singer in São Paulo's nightlife, reunites with her father, who has Alzheimer's, after years of estrangement. In an attempt to reconcile, she takes him to significant places from her past, hoping to revive his memories and re...

Floppies is an intimate glimpse into the complicated relationship between an artist son and his dementia-addled father as they attempt to communicate by collaborating on a one page comic. As they bring this comic to life, they recall flashbacks to ke...

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This documentary shows what happened when Alzheimer’s came into my mother’s life and how we managed it. What started as a private memorial video for Mom found a new life in its current metamorphosis as a possible motivator for others to consider hom...

Untangling Alzheimer's is a dramatic and inspiring medical investigation driven by David Suzuki's journey to understand the science of Alzheimer's and the surprising new insights into its cause. David has a very personal interest in the disease becau...

Jane is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and she tries her best to cope. She starts by recording the most important moments in her life, hoping she will always remember the things that should not be forgotten. She chooses to stay home and her daughter, Nat...

Documentary about euthanasia....

It narrates the life of an old man who suffers from Alzheimer's and before all his memory is erased he wants to remember, for the last time, the love story that he lived with Margarita....

Lilia, a Colombian citizen, has lived in eight countries around the world. Now, at the age of 67, she grows old alone in Portugal, caring for an Alzheimer's patient. The filmmaker asks her mother Lilia if she has found home and if she will ever retur...