Movies

Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

45 Years

Dir. Andrew Haigh · NR · min

In the week before their 45th wedding anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) learns that her husband’s first love—believed dead for 45 years—has been found preserved in…
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Away From Her

Dir. Sarah Polley · PG-13 · min

Based on an Alice Munro short story: a woman with early Alzheimer’s moves into a care home, where she develops feelings for another resident—and her…
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Dir. Michael Morris · · 125 min

Now in her fifties and widowed, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) raises two young children while tentatively re-entering the dating world — caught between a much-younger…
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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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I’ll See You in My Dreams

Dir. Brett Haley · PG-13 · 92 min

Blythe Danner plays Carol, a widowed former singer living quietly with her dog in suburban Los Angeles, who slowly lets life back in — through…
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It’s Complicated

Dir. Nancy Meyers · R · 120 min

Meryl Streep plays a successful bakery owner in her 50s who begins an affair with her ex-husband. A glossy, funny rom-com that centers an older…
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Land

Dir. Robin Wright · PG-13 · 89 min

Robin Wright directs and stars as a woman who retreats to a remote Wyoming cabin after a devastating loss. A quiet, gorgeous film about grief,…
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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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Nomadland

Dir. Chloé Zhao · R · 108 min

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,…
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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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The Iron Lady

Dir. Phyllida Lloyd · PG-13 · 105 min

Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Margaret Thatcher — framed through Thatcher’s final years of dementia and grief. Whatever one thinks of her politics, the film…
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The Meddler

Dir. Lorene Scafaria · · 100 min

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…
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Woman in Gold

Dir. Simon Curtis · PG-13 · 109 min

Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an octogenarian who takes on the Austrian government to reclaim a Klimt painting stolen by the Nazis. A true story…
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