A Fellow Will Remember a Lot of Things You Wouldn't Think He'd Remember (Films About Getting Old)

Last night I was thinking of an inversion of the story: a couple concerned more with each other than their kids, who grow up resentful. Years later, the kids take advantage of the parents' vulnerability to separate them. I'm visualizing something like the ending of Barry Lyndon.
It's possible that this is the subtext of Make Way for Tomorrow as it exists, though! I mean, we never see the parents and children in younger days - why and how did they raise a family of ingrates?

There've been a few the past five years: Michael Haneke's Amour (2012, not sure why I didn't mention it), two or three about Alzheimer's, and The Irishman fits to a degree.

And, in so many of Tommy Lee Jones' ruminations, No Country for Old Men.

Would I be an insufferable film pedant (what, like I'm not already?) if I suggested that the indignities of aging are the "real" theme of Bubba Ho-Tep?

That’s a good one

The horror film relic fits altho its more about the experience of living with an ageing parent

On the tv side twin peaks the return explores this theme in myriad fascinating ways obv