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My grandmother is 97 and has been sick all week. I'm going there this week to help but she has the tendency to get up and try to help you. And she really shouldn't do that right now. So I decided to try distracting her with films so she won't try to get up. Problem is we have very different tastes in films and I have no idea what to show her. She doesn't like violence, modern music and gratuitous nudity. She does like period drama's. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Time to dig up some pre-60s classics. A quick googling turns up a decent list: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000013391/

Films of old book classics, perhaps? North & South, Jane Eyre, etc.

I was thinking Sense and Sensibility.

Any of the old English Ealing comedies would probably be up her street.

How is she on comedies, because The Love Bug and Herbie Rides Again should provide gentle humor. Musicals such as My Fair Lady or Mary Poppins too.

Do you know any movies she liked as a child? My grandmother loves Gone With the Wind and so that's always my first thought of movies with her.

Op: She loves the Sisi movies and the sound of music. But I have seen them so many times that I'm sick of them so I would really prefer to not have to watch those again.

What about Bedknobs and Broomsticks? It's a silly Disney film that mixes live action and animation. Try looking for other movies that came out around the same time.

Re: Grandma movie recs

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-28 22:47 (UTC) - Expand

shortysc22 - 2016-02-28 23:35 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-29 00:20 (UTC) - Expand

kallanda_lee - 2016-02-29 00:16 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-29 00:26 (UTC) - Expand

Sense and Sensibility from '95. Some of those beautiful BBC mini-series like North & South and Jane Eyre. Maybe some Merchant Ivory films?

Birth of a Nation? Song of the South.

We're not American so that wouldn't be very nostalgic for her.

dethtoll - 2016-02-28 22:33 (UTC) - Expand

There's lots of lists of period dramas, like this one: http://flavorwire.com/432169/the-30-best-period-dramas-from-the-last-30-years

You could go ahead and watch multiple versions of "Pride and Prejudice" and then debate which one you think is best.

There are a lot of other movies that don't trip your grandmother's "Do Not Want" list...

9 to 5
Singin' in the Rain
Auntie Mame (the one with Rosalind Russell, not Lucille Ball)
Yours, Mine and Ours (the one with Lucile Ball, so she doesn't feel left out)
The Poseidon Adventure
Anything with Bob Hope in it
Anything with Julie Andrews in it
etc.

The Sandlot, Angels In The Outfield, Fried Green Tomatoes... any other "feel good" classic like that should do it.

Op: are those easy to watch for some one who isn't American?

herpymcderp - 2016-02-28 23:16 (UTC) - Expand

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (1 & 2). Maybe some classics like 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' and 'Auntie Mame'.

Period drama...can you get her hooked on Downton Abbey? At least a couple seasons must be on Netflix by now, and Call the Midwife, as well.

She loves downton abbey and call the midwife but she watched those already. Best exotic marigold hotel sounds good though.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-02-28 23:32 (UTC) - Expand

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movies are wonderful and O recommend them to everyone!

* Pride and Prejudice, 1995 version
* Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version is good, so is the more recent BBC version that was on Masterpiece Theater)
* Persuasion
* Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow version or a couple recent-ish BBC versions)
* North and South (the Elizabeth Gaskell book adaptation, not the Civil War film)
* Wives and Daughters
* Cranford
* Lark Rise to Candleford (TV show)
* Partners in Crime (mystery series set in England in the 50s)
* Little Women
* Grenada series Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett

Seconding all of these, but especially Persuasion (1995). It's my favourite costume drama ever made.

Jeremy Brett was the BEST Holmes!

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-29 21:07 (UTC) - Expand

The Dish. It's set in Australia in 1969 and is about the people at the radio telescope that was used to relay the broadcast of the moon landing. It's a darling movie and completely harmless for grannies, children, small pets, and people with heart conditions (no nudity, sex, violence, gore, jump scares, etc.)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is another goood one, although two characters do have sex, but they jump on each other and fall out of the frame and I think that's it (I haven't seen it in a while).

Maybe that movie version of Pride and Prejudice from a few years back?

Speaking of P&P, Bride and Prejudice is also a fun movie, although with a modern rather than period setting. It's basically an English-language Bollywood adaptation of P&P.

Other anons have made good recs, including all the Jane Austen ones I had in mind! Anyway, I hope she feels better soon.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Harvey
Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Red Balloon
My Fair Lady
Twelve Angry Men
Truman Show

I think anything pre-1970 will be a safe bet then. Think Old Hollywood. Old people love Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant!