Movies

Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

Beyond Sixty

Dir. Melissa Davey · · min

Beyond Sixty is an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Melissa Davey, who made her first film at 65. It profiles ten remarkable American women — among…
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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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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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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

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

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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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan · R · 124 min

High-powered San Francisco stockbroker Stella Payne, in her early forties and overdue for a break, flies to Jamaica on a whim and falls for a…
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Mamma Mia!

Dir. Phyllida Lloyd · PG-13 · 108 min

Meryl Streep plays Donna, a woman running a Greek island hotel whose daughter’s wedding brings three former lovers back into her life. Joyful, sun-soaked ABBA…
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Ricki and the Flash

Dir. Jonathan Demme · PG-13 · 102 min

Meryl Streep plays a woman who abandoned her family to pursue her rock dreams. When her daughter’s life falls apart, she must return and face…
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Shirley Valentine

Dir. Lewis Gilbert · R · 108 min

Middle-aged Liverpool housewife Shirley Valentine escapes her mundane marriage and daily routine by impulsively joining a friend on a holiday to Greece, where she rediscovers…
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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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Still Doing It

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 60

Dir. Deirdre Fishel · G · 54 min

A documentary film that follows several women over the age of 60 as they talk openly and candidly about their romantic and sexual lives. The…
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