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Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

80 for Brady

80 for Brady

Dir. Kyle Marvin · PG-13 · 98 min

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

Beaches

Dir. Garry Marshall · PG-13 · 123 min

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

Book Club

Dir. Bill Holderman · PG-13 · 104 min

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

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Dir. Bill Holderman · PG-13 · 107 min

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

Calendar Girls

Dir. Nigel Cole · PG-13 · 108 min

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

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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Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

Dir. Ryan Murphy · PG-13 · 133 min

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

Enchanted April

Dir. Mike Newell · PG · 93 min

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

Finding Your Feet

Dir. Richard Loncraine · · 111 min

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

First Wives Club

Dir. Hugh Wilson · PG · 103 min

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

Fried Green Tomatoes

Dir. Jon Avnet · PG-13 · 130 min

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

Harold and Maude

Dir. Hal Ashby · PG · 91 min

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

Let Them All Talk

Dir. Steven Soderbergh · · 113 min

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

Military Wives

Dir. Peter Cattaneo · · 112 min

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

Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont

Dir. Dan Ireland · PG · 108 min

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

Our Souls at Night

Dir. Ritesh Batra · NR · 97 min

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

Poms

Dir. Zara Hayes · PG-13 · 91 min

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

Quartet

Dir. Dustin Hoffman · PG-13 · 98 min

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

Something’s Gotta Give

Dir. Nancy Meyers · PG-13 · 128 min

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

Steel Magnolias

Dir. Herbert Ross · PG · 118 min

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

Summer Camp

Dir. Castille Landon · · 96 min

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

Tea with the Dames

Dir. Roger Michell · NR · 79 min

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

The Fabulous Four

Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse · · 99 min

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

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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