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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…

A wealthy, embittered woman, Regina Fuller (Christine Baranski), returns to the small town she now owns intending to evict everyone for a shopping-mall deal —…

A feature documentary by Melissa Davey telling the remarkable story of Dierdre Wolownick — writer, artist, musician, and mother of climber Alex Honnold — who…

Sheila Hancock plays an eighty-something widow who, after a lifetime of deferral, sets off alone to climb a Scottish mountain. A vivid argument that reinvention…

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…

Three college friends — Brenda, Elise, and Annie — reunite after the suicide of a fourth classmate and discover their husbands have all left them…

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…

A recently widowed former teacher hires a young sex worker to help her experience what she has never allowed herself. Emma Thompson is extraordinary as…

After her mother’s death, a socially awkward 60-year-old (Sally Field) develops a crush on her much younger coworker and stumbles into a late-life reinvention. Warm…

Annette Bening plays a woman whose twenty-nine-year marriage abruptly ends, forcing a hard, honest reckoning and rebuilding in later life. The film keeps her experience,…

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…

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

Meryl Streep plays Julia Child discovering her vocation in her fifties, intercut with a younger woman’s present-day cooking project. Why it’s here: Streep’s Julia is…

After her marriage ends, a Manhattan writer (Patricia Clarkson) takes driving lessons that become a late-life education in independence and self-trust. An understated story of…

Frances McDormand plays a dowdy governess who stumbles into the glamorous world of a nightclub singer in 1939 London. A fizzy, delightful film about a…

A widowed London charwoman falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and decides she will have one, no matter what it costs her. Lesley…

True story of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening), who at age 60 attempts the grueling 110-mile open-water swim from Cuba to Key West—unassisted and through shark-…

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…

Three childhood best friends — Nora (Diane Keaton), Ginny (Kathy Bates) and Mary (Alfre Woodard) — reunite decades later at an adult session of the…

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…

When her Las Vegas revue is abruptly cancelled after 30 years, veteran showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) must reimagine who she is without the only identity…

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…

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…