10 Best Movies About Dementia

This Oscar-winning film with Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman is one of the most penetrating portraits of dementia ever made. It's told entirely through the eyes of the person with dementia, so you experience the confusion and fear yourself: rooms change, faces switch and time seems to jump, just as it does for someone with the disease. An emotional masterpiece you won't soon forget.

Julianne Moore plays a brilliant linguistics professor who discovers she has early-onset Alzheimer's. The film shows intensely and subtly how she slowly loses her grip on reality and how her family deals with it. A gripping drama that shows how merciless the disease can be, even for younger people. Moore won an Oscar for the role.

Based on a short story by Alice Munro, this film is about an older couple torn apart by the disease. When Fiona (Julie Christie) starts losing her memory, she decides herself to move into a care home, where she forgets her husband and grows attached to another man. A subtle, heartbreaking film about love, letting go and the pain of being forgotten.

This film tells the true story of Iris Murdoch, a famous British novelist who was struck by Alzheimer's. It alternates between flashbacks of her young, brilliant self (Kate Winslet) and her older self (Judi Dench) struggling with dementia. A powerful, emotional portrait of a genius mind slowly fading.

This French film directed by Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It follows an elderly couple until the wife suffers a stroke and slowly loses her independence and mind. Her husband tries to care for her but ultimately faces impossible choices. A heartbreaking but beautiful film about love, suffering and mortality.

In this classic love story, dementia plays a crucial role. An old man reads a love story every day to a woman in a care home. Gradually it becomes clear that she is his wife and he's trying to help her remember who he is. A romantic, moving take on dementia with a beautiful, emotional climax.

When an older woman with Alzheimer's increasingly wanders off and ends up in dangerous situations, her family must decide what's best for her. The film focuses on the struggles of the family members, torn between keeping her at home or moving her into care. A realistic, painfully honest portrait of the hard decisions surrounding dementia.

A moving Swedish film by Bille August about two musicians who find each other later in life and fall in love. Shortly after their wedding, Martin develops Alzheimer's and slowly begins to forget everything, including his music and his wife. It shows powerfully how dementia can transform a relationship and how love endures even when memories fade.

This film combines dementia with science fiction in a surprisingly touching way. An older man with early dementia gets a caretaker robot to help with daily tasks, but the man, a former jewel thief, has other plans and involves the robot in a series of burglaries. A charming, funny and thoughtful film about aging, technology and memory loss.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney play siblings who have to take care of their estranged father, who has dementia. The film shows the chaos, guilt and frustration that come with caring for a parent with dementia. An honest and sometimes darkly comic look at a subject that affects many families.