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Films recommended for women navigating midlife and beyond.

Babygirl

Babygirl

Dir. Halina Reijn · R · min

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…
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Book Club

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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Gloria Bell

Gloria Bell

Dir. Sebastián Lelio · · 102 min

Julianne Moore plays a divorced woman in her fifties who fills her nights on Los Angeles dance floors and refuses to shrink her life to…
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Dir. Sophie Hyde · R · 97 min

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…
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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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Hello, My Name Is Doris

Hello, My Name Is Doris

Dir. Michael Showalter · R · min

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…
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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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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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Ladies in Lavender

Ladies in Lavender

Dir. Charles Dance · PG · 104 min

Judi Dench and Maggie Smith play two elderly sisters in 1930s Cornwall who find their quiet lives disrupted by a young Polish musician they rescue…
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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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Our Souls at Night

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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Shirley Valentine

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

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: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 60

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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