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…

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…

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.…

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,…

Glenn Close plays a mother trying to help her heroin-addicted daughter (Mila Kunis) stay clean for the four days needed to qualify for a monthly…

Meryl Streep plays Donna, a woman running a Greek island hotel whose daughter’s wedding brings three former lovers back into her life. Joyful, sun-soaked ABBA…

The ABBA jukebox sequel adds Cher as an impossibly glamorous grandmother. Pure joy, featuring the original cast plus flashback stories of Donna’s younger days. Includes…

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,…

A polished self-help author (Ron Livingston) about to marry into a refined family discovers he was adopted — and tracks down his boisterous, unfiltered biological…

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…

After losing her job and her marriage in a single day, Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her hard-drinking, diabetic grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon),…

Emma Thompson plays a High Court judge dealing with a challenging case — a teenage Jehovah’s Witness refusing a blood transfusion — while her own…

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.…

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…

Based on Amy Tan’s landmark novel, four Chinese-American women and their mothers explore the complex bonds between generations. A profoundly moving portrait of women’s lives…

Olivia Colman plays a middle-aged academic whose seaside holiday unearths a reckoning with her own ambivalent motherhood. A film unusually willing to grant an older…

Susan Sarandon plays a recently widowed mother who relocates to be near her daughter and slowly rebuilds her own purpose and identity. A tender, funny…