Movies
Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.
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80 for Brady
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…
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Beaches
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…
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Book Club
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…
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
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…
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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…
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Driving Miss Daisy
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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Eat Pray Love
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…
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Enchanted April
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,…
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Finding Your Feet
When her long marriage collapses, a woman (Imelda Staunton) takes refuge with her free-spirited older sister (Celia Imrie) and rediscovers friendship, dance and desire. A…
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First Wives Club
Three college friends — Brenda, Elise, and Annie — reunite after the suicide of a fourth classmate and discover their husbands have all left them…
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Fried Green Tomatoes
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…
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Harold and Maude
A death-obsessed young man forms an unlikely bond — and romance — with a free-spirited 79-year-old woman who lives with fierce joy and zero apology.…
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Let Them All Talk
A celebrated older novelist (Meryl Streep) crosses the Atlantic with two old friends (Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest), reckoning with a long friendship and old wounds.…
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Military Wives
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…
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Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont
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…
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Our Souls at Night
Addie Moore, a widow in a small Colorado town, knocks on the door of her neighbor Louis Waters and proposes a simple arrangement: they share…
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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…
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Quartet
Retired opera singers — played by Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly, and Tom Courtenay — navigate friendship, old rivalries, and lingering romance at a…
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Something’s Gotta Give
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…
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Steel Magnolias
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…
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Summer Camp
Three childhood best friends — Nora (Diane Keaton), Ginny (Kathy Bates) and Mary (Alfre Woodard) — reunite decades later at an adult session of the…
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Tea with the Dames
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…
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The Fabulous Four
Four college sorority sisters reunite in Key West when Marilyn (Bette Midler) summons them to be bridesmaids at her surprise late-in-life wedding. Long-buried grievances —…
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The Miracle Club
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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