Movies

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…

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…

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,…

Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a real New York socialite who passionately believed she was a great opera singer — and performed Carnegie Hall…

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…

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…

Meryl Streep plays Julia Child discovering her vocation in her fifties, intercut with a younger woman’s present-day cooking project. Why it’s here: Streep’s Julia is…

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…

Robin Wright directs and stars as a woman who retreats to a remote Wyoming cabin after a devastating loss. A quiet, gorgeous film about grief,…

Emma Thompson plays a late-night talk show host who has become complacent and discovers her show is at risk. A sharp, funny film about a…

Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan lead an ensemble of women who form a choir while their partners are deployed, finding voice and solidarity. Older…

Frances McDormand plays a dowdy governess who stumbles into the glamorous world of a nightclub singer in 1939 London. A fizzy, delightful film about a…

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…

Retired opera singers — played by Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly, and Tom Courtenay — navigate friendship, old rivalries, and lingering romance at a…

Meryl Streep plays a woman who abandoned her family to pursue her rock dreams. When her daughter’s life falls apart, she must return and face…

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…

Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, whose life collapses under the weight of her own abuses of…

Four of Britain’s greatest actresses — Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith — gather at Plowright’s country home for an intimate and…

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…

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…

The story of Charles Dickens’ secret relationship with young actress Nelly Ternan, seen through the eyes of an older Nelly looking back on the years…

Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Margaret Thatcher — framed through Thatcher’s final years of dementia and grief. Whatever one thinks of her politics, the film…

Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Laura Linney play Irish women who win a trip to Lourdes, taking along a long-estranged friend. A warm, funny, moving…