Movies

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,…

Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War — an aging, cancer-stricken Prime Minister making impossible decisions under immense pressure. A portrait of…

Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm in an account of her trailblazing 1972 run for the Democratic presidential nomination — the first Black candidate, and…

Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, whose life collapses under the weight of her own abuses of…

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…

Julianne Moore portrays Gloria Steinem across the decades, foregrounding her years as a movement leader and elder stateswoman of feminism. A biopic that honors an…

Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Margaret Thatcher — framed through Thatcher’s final years of dementia and grief. Whatever one thinks of her politics, the film…

Told entirely through archival footage, this Oscar-nominated short documentary resurrects Martha Mitchell — the outspoken wife of Nixon’s attorney general, who blew the whistle on…

Meryl Streep plays Katharine Graham, the Washington Post publisher who decides to defy the Nixon administration and publish the Pentagon Papers. A stirring portrait of…

Viola Davis commands the screen as Nanisca, general of the Agojie — the all-female warrior unit that defended the West African kingdom of Dahomey in…

An unflinching documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood, featuring Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, and Sandra Oh. Drawing on data from the…

Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an octogenarian who takes on the Austrian government to reclaim a Klimt painting stolen by the Nazis. A true story…

Women in an isolated Mennonite community secretly debate whether to stay and fight or leave everything they know after years of assault. A rare film…