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Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

45 Years

45 Years

Dir. Andrew Haigh · NR · min

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…
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80 for Brady

80 for Brady

Dir. Kyle Marvin · PG-13 · 98 min

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…
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Advanced Style

Advanced Style

Dir. Lina Plioplyte · · 72 min

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

Amour

Dir. Michael Haneke · PG-13 · 127 min

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 —…
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Away From Her

Away From Her

Dir. Sarah Polley · PG-13 · min

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…
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Beyond Sixty

Beyond Sixty

Dir. Melissa Davey · · min

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…
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Book Club

Book Club

Dir. Bill Holderman · PG-13 · 104 min

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…
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Book Club: The Next Chapter

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Dir. Bill Holderman · PG-13 · 107 min

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…
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Climbing into Life

Climbing into Life

Dir. Melissa Davey · NR · 52 min

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

Diane

Dir. Kent Jones · NR · 95 min

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,…
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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Dir. Bruce Beresford · PG · 99 min

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…
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Edie

Edie

Dir. Simon Hunter · · 102 min

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…
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Gloria Bell

Gloria Bell

Dir. Sebastián Lelio · · 102 min

Julianne Moore plays a divorced woman in her fifties who fills her nights on Los Angeles dance floors and refuses to shrink her life to…
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Golda

Golda

Dir. Guy Nattiv · PG-13 · 100 min

Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War — an aging, cancer-stricken Prime Minister making impossible decisions under immense pressure. A portrait of…
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Dir. Sophie Hyde · R · 97 min

A recently widowed former teacher hires a young sex worker to help her experience what she has never allowed herself. Emma Thompson is extraordinary as…
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Grandma

Grandma

Dir. Paul Weitz · · 79 min

Lily Tomlin stars as Elle, a sharp-tongued older poet, recently bereaved and newly out of a relationship, who spends a single day helping her granddaughter…
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Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

Dir. Hal Ashby · PG · 91 min

A death-obsessed young man forms an unlikely bond — and romance — with a free-spirited 79-year-old woman who lives with fierce joy and zero apology.…
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Hello, My Name Is Doris

Hello, My Name Is Doris

Dir. Michael Showalter · R · min

After her mother’s death, a socially awkward 60-year-old (Sally Field) develops a crush on her much younger coworker and stumbles into a late-life reinvention. Warm…
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I’ll See You in My Dreams

I’ll See You in My Dreams

Dir. Brett Haley · PG-13 · 92 min

Blythe Danner plays Carol, a widowed former singer living quietly with her dog in suburban Los Angeles, who slowly lets life back in — through…
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It’s Complicated

It’s Complicated

Dir. Nancy Meyers · R · 120 min

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…
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Ladies in Lavender

Ladies in Lavender

Dir. Charles Dance · PG · 104 min

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…
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Let Them All Talk

Let Them All Talk

Dir. Steven Soderbergh · · 113 min

A celebrated older novelist (Meryl Streep) crosses the Atlantic with two old friends (Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest), reckoning with a long friendship and old wounds.…
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Maestro

Maestro

Dir. Bradley Cooper · R · 129 min

Carey Mulligan delivers a quietly devastating performance as Felicia Montealegre — a woman who loved Leonard Bernstein fully knowing the complexity of who he was,…
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Dir. Anthony Fabian · PG · 116 min

A widowed London charwoman falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and decides she will have one, no matter what it costs her. Lesley…
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