Movies

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…

Brooke (Nicole Kidman), a once-celebrated writer widowed and adrift in her fifties, unexpectedly falls for a self-absorbed movie star — the very man her grown…

A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) risks everything when she begins a clandestine submissive affair with her young intern, exploring female desire and what she actually…

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…

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…

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…

Keira Knightley plays Colette, the French novelist whose husband publishes her work under his own name. A portrait of a woman’s fight to claim her…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

A long-married older woman (Meryl Streep) insists on intensive counseling to reclaim intimacy with her reluctant husband (Tommy Lee Jones). A rare mainstream film that…

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…

The love story of philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, framing her life through the lens of Alzheimer’s. Judi Dench and…

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…

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…

Carey Mulligan delivers a quietly devastating performance as Felicia Montealegre — a woman who loved Leonard Bernstein fully knowing the complexity of who he was,…

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…

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…

An intimate documentary portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — her life, her marriage, her legal career, her fitness regimen at 85, and her unlikely cultural…

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…

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…

Emma Thompson plays a High Court judge dealing with a challenging case — a teenage Jehovah’s Witness refusing a blood transfusion — while her own…