A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a school and how his teacher, Miss Turlock, influenced so many students. Many of them reunite at the school on Miss Turlock's last day, when the school was closed in 1940.
John Wayne har en af sin karrieres bedste roller som kavalleriofficeren Captain Nathan Brittles, der er udstationeret midt i indianerland, og som kun har en uge tilbage, før han modvilligt skal på pension. Skønt han hellere vil slås med de røveriske Cheyenne-krigere i området, bliver hans sidste opgave at eskortere majorens kone og niece i sikkerhed uden for fortet. Filmen er den midterste i John Fords trilogi, der desuden består af Fort Apache og Rio Grande.
Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Everyone is reaching retirement age. Some are happy to go, others regret that their active phase of life is over. The reporter asks retiring postmen and postwomen about the farewell they are now receiving at work. And they tell their stories. They tell us why they love their jobs, the relationships they've built up over the years with the people they've met on the job, and how much they'll miss WORK...
Det er en delvis allegorisk film om et menneske i permanent krise der finder frigørelse gennem en gruppe outrerede menneskers konflikter som han bliver både direkte og indirekte involveret i.
Da den aldrende revolvermand John Books får konstateret en dødelig sygdom vender han hjem til Carson City, og hans gamle ven, Dr. Hollister. Han flytter ind i et værelse, udlejet af en enke og hendes søn. Men det er ikke Books skæbne at dø fredeligt, og en sidste duel nærmer sig.
Miles Kendig er en dødtræt CIA-agent, som for at undgå repressalier ved sin selvbestaltede fratræden truer sin chef samt alle de øvrige efterretningstjenester med at udgive sine afslørende memoirer. Det giver imidlertid bagslag, og snart er de alle i hælene på ham i en vanvittig katten-efter-musen-jagt.
Middle-aged Violet, an Anglo-Indian teacher, lives alone in a flat at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta. When a former student starts visiting her with her boyfriend, Violet welcomes them eagerly.
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse Wilson and spends time with his best buddy Michael Aylott, who's slowly drifting into senility.
As a result of a misdiagnosis, Detective Burt Simpson is told he has just weeks to live. He gains a new respect for his life and loved ones but learns that in order for his wife, Carolyn, and son, Dougie, to collect any insurance money, he must be killed in the line of duty. He then becomes the most reckless man on the police force, volunteering for dangerous assignments over the objections of his by-the-book partner.
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.