Movies
Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

Calendar Girls
Based on a true story, a group of middle-aged women from a Yorkshire Women’s Institute pose nude for a calendar to raise money for a hospital ward. A warm, funny celebration of women’s bodies, friendship, and the refusal to be invisible at any age.

Nomadland
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, community, and living outside conventional expectations of how older women should exist.

Poms
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 warm — a celebration of vitality, friendship, and refusing to go quietly.
