Movies

Annette Bening is a single mother in her mid-fifties raising a teenage son in 1979 Santa Barbara, drawn with full feminist complexity. A rich portrait…

In the week before their 45th wedding anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) learns that her husband’s first love—believed dead for 45 years—has been found preserved in…

Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field play four friends in their 80s who road trip to see Tom Brady at the Super…

Brooke (Nicole Kidman), a once-celebrated writer widowed and adrift in her fifties, unexpectedly falls for a self-absorbed movie star — the very man her grown…

A documentary following stylish New York women aged 62 to 95 — including Iris Apfel — who treat ageing as an occasion for boldness rather…

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 —…

This Oscar-winning feminist classic follows an older matriarch who returns to her village and builds a thriving, multigenerational community of women on her own terms.…

Based on an Alice Munro short story: a woman with early Alzheimer’s moves into a care home, where she develops feelings for another resident—and her…

A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) risks everything when she begins a clandestine submissive affair with her young intern, exploring female desire and what she actually…

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…

Beyond Sixty is an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Melissa Davey, who made her first film at 65. It profiles ten remarkable American women — among…

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron lead the true story of the women who brought down Fox News chief Roger Ailes over sexual harassment. Older women…

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen play four lifelong friends in their late 60s and 70s whose love lives are upended after…

The four friends from Book Club are back, this time taking their long-awaited trip to Italy. A breezy, sun-drenched sequel that continues celebrating older women’s…

Now in her fifties and widowed, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) raises two young children while tentatively re-entering the dating world — caught between a much-younger…

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…

A wealthy, embittered woman, Regina Fuller (Christine Baranski), returns to the small town she now owns intending to evict everyone for a shopping-mall deal —…

A feature documentary by Melissa Davey telling the remarkable story of Dierdre Wolownick — writer, artist, musician, and mother of climber Alex Honnold — who…

Keira Knightley plays Colette, the French novelist whose husband publishes her work under his own name. A portrait of a woman’s fight to claim her…

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,…

An elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her Black chauffeur build an unlikely friendship that deepens over 25 years. Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress…

Julia Roberts plays Elizabeth Gilbert traveling through Italy, India, and Bali after a devastating divorce. Whatever its flaws, the film touched millions of women who…

Sheila Hancock plays an eighty-something widow who, after a lifetime of deferral, sets off alone to climb a Scottish mountain. A vivid argument that reinvention…

Four very different British women escape their dull lives by renting an Italian castle for a month. A gorgeous, gentle film about women’s friendship, marriage,…