Movies

A documentary revisiting the women captured in a landmark 1977 book of photographs that chronicled the awakening of the feminist movement — and asking, decades…

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…

Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a real New York socialite who passionately believed she was a great opera singer — and performed Carnegie Hall…

Glenn Close plays a mother trying to help her heroin-addicted daughter (Mila Kunis) stay clean for the four days needed to qualify for a monthly…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Lily Tomlin stars as Elle, a sharp-tongued older poet, recently bereaved and newly out of a relationship, who spends a single day helping her granddaughter…

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.…

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…

The true story of three Black women mathematicians at NASA whose calculations made the first American space missions possible. A joyful, inspiring portrait of brilliance,…

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 counselling 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…

Renée Zellweger won the Oscar playing Judy Garland in her final months of performances in London. A heartbreaking portrait of a woman destroyed by the…

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…

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…

Robin Wright directs and stars as a woman who retreats to a remote Wyoming cabin after a devastating loss. A quiet, gorgeous film about grief,…

Emma Thompson plays a late-night talk show host who has become complacent and discovers her show is at risk. A sharp, funny film about a…