Movies

An Indian family opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French establishment in a small French village. Helen Mirren is magnificent as the formidable restaurant owner whose rigidity gradually gives way to warmth. A lovely film about food, culture, and unexpected connection.

Diane Keaton plays a woman with a terminal diagnosis who moves to a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad. Light and predictable but genuinely warm — a celebration of vitality, friendship, and refusing to go quietly.

Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a real New York socialite who passionately believed she was a great opera singer — and performed Carnegie Hall at 76. A warm, bittersweet story about the courage to pursue your passion regardless of talent.

Jim Broadbent plays a 60-year-old taxi driver who steals a Goya painting from the National Gallery. Helen Mirren is magnificent as his long-suffering, devoted, fiercely practical wife. A warm, funny portrait of an older marriage full of love, exasperation, and shared history.

The court of Queen Anne is a battleground for power between two women — Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone deliver Oscar-caliber performances in a savage dark comedy about female power, manipulation, and the price of influence.

An aging father believes he has won a million-dollar prize and insists on traveling to claim it. June Squibb’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of his sharp-tongued, sexually frank wife is a revelation — an older woman of ferocious honesty and humor.

An elderly Parisian couple face the aftermath of a stroke with devastating honesty. One of cinema’s most unflinching portrayals of aging, caregiving, and love — and what it means to honor a promise to the person you love most as they decline. Palme d’Or winner.

Renée Zellweger won the Oscar playing Judy Garland in her final months of performances in London. A heartbreaking portrait of a woman destroyed by the entertainment industry’s exploitation, yet clinging with ferocious dignity to her gift.

An intimate documentary portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — her life, her marriage, her legal career, her fitness regimen at 85, and her unlikely cultural icon status. A joyful, moving celebration of a woman who never stopped fighting.

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career and the landmark tax case that launched her legal fight for gender equality. A stirring portrait of a woman who spent her lifetime strategically dismantling the laws that kept women unequal.

The true story of three Black women mathematicians at NASA whose calculations made the first American space missions possible. A joyful, inspiring portrait of brilliance, perseverance, and dignity in the face of racism and sexism.

Holly Hunter plays a mute Scottish woman sent to colonial New Zealand in an arranged marriage, who uses her piano as the language of her inner life. A landmark feminist film about female desire, agency, and survival in a world that denies women voice.

Mary Kay Place gives a quiet masterclass as Diane, an older New England woman keeping herself busy caring for others while neglecting herself. A raw, unsentimental portrait of aging, guilt, self-sacrifice, and the painful love between mothers and children.

Meryl Streep plays a successful bakery owner in her 50s who begins an affair with her ex-husband. A glossy, funny rom-com that centers an older woman’s desire, confusion, and capacity for joy — and notably portrays her as the pursued rather than the pursuer.

Diane Keaton plays a playwright in her late 50s who falls in love with her daughter’s much older boyfriend. A witty, warm rom-com that centers an older woman’s desire, creativity, and right to a full romantic life.

Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play two women whose lifelong friendship is tested by ambition, love, and ultimately terminal illness. One of cinema’s defining explorations of female friendship as life’s central relationship.

A midlife woman in an unfulfilling marriage finds her sense of self through the stories of two women from 1930s Alabama told to her by an elderly nursing home resident. A landmark film about female friendship, courage, and reclaiming your life.

Six women in a small Louisiana town support each other through joy and tragedy. One of cinema’s most beloved explorations of female friendship across generations — featuring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, and Daryl Hannah.

An elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her Black driver form an unlikely friendship over 25 years. Jessica Tandy won the Oscar at 81 — the oldest Best Actress winner — in a film about aging, friendship, and the slow erosion of prejudice.

A group of British retirees move to a renovated hotel in India. A crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy about reinvention, romance, and finding new purpose in later life — featuring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, and Celia Imrie.

Judi Dench and Maggie Smith play two elderly sisters in 1930s Cornwall who find their quiet lives disrupted by a young Polish musician they rescue from the sea. A beautiful, melancholy film about desire, aging, and the loves that remain unexpressed.

The love story of philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, framing her life through the lens of Alzheimer’s. Judi Dench and Kate Winslet share the role. A heartbreaking, beautiful portrait of a brilliant woman’s decline and her husband’s devotion.

A group of Englishwomen — including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Joan Plowright — refuse to abandon their beloved Florence as Mussolini’s Italy rises around them. A gorgeous, witty portrait of older women’s courage, loyalty, and refusal to be bullied.

Based on a true story, a group of middle-aged women from a Yorkshire Women’s Institute pose nude for a calendar to raise money for a hospital ward. A warm, funny celebration of women’s bodies, friendship, and the refusal to be invisible at any age.