Nursing home

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows nursing home

Louisa

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.

poster What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

93mn - Drama, Thriller, Short

An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.

poster Fire in the Dark

Fire in the Dark

124mn - Drama, Short

A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious …

poster Good Night, Nurse!

Good Night, Nurse!

Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himsel…

poster A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

95mn - Drama, Short

When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.

poster The House of Darkness

The House of Darkness

A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a hous…

poster 10 Days in a Madhouse

10 Days in a Madhouse

Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

poster Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home

55mn - Drama, Fantasy

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and…

poster Through the Breakers

Through the Breakers

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do…

poster The Greatest Question

The Greatest Question

Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as Nellie is known, returns to the area as an orphan. Locals M…

poster Pollyanna

Pollyanna

58mn - Comedy, Drama, Family

When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna'…

poster Call of the Cuckoo

Call of the Cuckoo

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

poster No Noise

No Noise

20mn - Comedy, Family

Entertaining Our Gang comedy has poor Mickey in the hospital being fed castor oil when his friends stop by to pay him a visit. As you'd expect, the kids start making all sorts of noise so the doctors deci…

poster The Floor Below

The Floor Below

80mn - Comedy, Drama

Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

poster The Red House

The Red House

100mn - Mystery, Thriller, Drama

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

poster Take Care of My Little Girl

Take Care of My Little Girl

A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

poster The Cradle

The Cradle

107mn - Horror, Thriller

When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for…

poster Story of a Cloistered Nun

Story of a Cloistered Nun

Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smit…

poster An Unseen Enemy

An Unseen Enemy

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…

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