Movies

Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

Christmas on the Square

Dir. Debbie Allen · · 98 min

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 —…
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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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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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Nomadland

Dir. Chloé Zhao · R · 108 min

Frances McDormand plays a woman in her 60s who joins van-dwelling nomads after losing everything in an economic collapse. An Oscar-winning meditation on loss, freedom,…
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Philomena

Dir. Stephen Frears · PG-13 · 98 min

Judi Dench plays Philomena Lee, a woman searching for the son taken from her by Irish nuns 50 years ago. A story of maternal love,…
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The Farewell

Dir. Lulu Wang · PG · 100 min

A Chinese family gathers under the pretense of a wedding to say goodbye to their grandmother, who has been diagnosed with cancer but not told.…
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The Miracle Club

Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · PG-13 · 90 min

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…
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Women Talking

Dir. Sarah Polley · PG-13 · 104 min

Women in an isolated Mennonite community secretly debate whether to stay and fight or leave everything they know after years of assault. A rare film…
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