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Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

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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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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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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It’s Complicated

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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Late Night

Late Night

Dir. Nisha Ganatra · R · 102 min

Emma Thompson plays a late-night talk show host who has become complacent and discovers her show is at risk. A sharp, funny film about a…
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Nebraska

Nebraska

Dir. Alexander Payne · R · 115 min

An aging father believes he has won a million-dollar prize and insists on traveling to claim it. June Squibb’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of his sharp-tongued, sexually…
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Relative Strangers

Relative Strangers

Dir. Greg Glienna · · 86 min

A polished self-help author (Ron Livingston) about to marry into a refined family discovers he was adopted — and tracks down his boisterous, unfiltered biological…
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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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Tammy

Tammy

Dir. Ben Falcone · · 96 min

After losing her job and her marriage in a single day, Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her hard-drinking, diabetic grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon),…
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Tea with Mussolini

Tea with Mussolini

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · PG · 117 min

A group of Englishwomen — including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Joan Plowright — refuse to abandon their beloved Florence as Mussolini’s Italy rises around…
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dir. John Madden · PG-13 · 124 min

A group of British retirees move to a renovated hotel in India. A crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy about reinvention, romance, and finding new purpose in later…
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The Duke

The Duke

Dir. Roger Michell · PG-13 · 96 min

Jim Broadbent plays a 60-year-old taxi driver who steals a Goya painting from the National Gallery. Helen Mirren is magnificent as his long-suffering, devoted, fiercely…
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The Favourite

The Favourite

Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos · R · 119 min

The court of Queen Anne is a battleground for power between two women — Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone deliver Oscar-caliber performances in…
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The Lady in the Van

The Lady in the Van

Dir. Nicholas Hytner · · 104 min

Maggie Smith is a fiercely independent older woman living in a van parked in a writer’s driveway, defying every attempt to pity, tidy away or…
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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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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dir. John Madden · PG · 122 min

With only a single room left at the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, co-manager Sonny pursues his dream of opening a second hotel even as his…
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Thelma

Thelma

Dir. Josh Margolin · PG-13 · 97 min

A 93-year-old woman is scammed out of ten thousand dollars and sets off across Los Angeles on a motorized scooter to get it back. June…
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