Movies
Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.
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45 Years
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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