Movies

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 Bowl. A joyful celebration of friendship, vitality, and women in their 80s having the time of their lives.

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 reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Affirming of older women’s desires and romantic lives.

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 friendship, romance, and joie de vivre.

Retired opera singers — played by Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, and Tom Courtenay — navigate friendship, romance, and aging at a home for musicians. A warm celebration of passion, creativity, and love persisting into old age.

Joan Plowright plays an elderly widow who moves to a London hotel and develops an unlikely friendship with a young writer. A gentle, moving portrait of loneliness, dignity, and the surprising bonds that can form across generations.

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.

An elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her Black driver form an unlikely friendship over 25 years. Jessica Tandy won the Oscar at 81 — the oldest Best Actress winner — in a film about aging, friendship, and the slow erosion of prejudice.

Six women in a small Louisiana town support each other through joy and tragedy. One of cinema’s most beloved explorations of female friendship across generations — featuring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, and Daryl Hannah.

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 an elderly nursing home resident. A landmark film about female friendship, courage, and reclaiming your life.

Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play two women whose lifelong friendship is tested by ambition, love, and ultimately terminal illness. One of cinema’s defining explorations of female friendship as life’s central relationship.

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 an older woman’s desire, creativity, and right to a full romantic life.

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.

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, self-discovery, and the transformative power of beauty and rest.

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 recognized the longing to leave an unsatisfying life and find yourself. Based on the bestselling memoir.

Two overachieving high schoolers try to cram four years of fun into one night before graduation. Though centered on young women, this celebration of female friendship, authenticity, and refusing to apologize for ambition resonates at any age.

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 film about old wounds, forgiveness, faith, and female friendship in later life.