Movies

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…

A celebrated older novelist (Meryl Streep) crosses the Atlantic with two old friends (Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest), reckoning with a long friendship and old wounds.…

The true story of Lilly Ledbetter (Patricia Clarkson), an Alabama Goodyear supervisor who discovers she has been underpaid for years and launches a decade-long fight…

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

Meryl Streep plays Donna, a woman running a Greek island hotel whose daughter’s wedding brings three former lovers back into her life. Joyful, sun-soaked ABBA…

The ABBA jukebox sequel adds Cher as an impossibly glamorous grandmother. Pure joy, featuring the original cast plus flashback stories of Donna’s younger days. Includes…

Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan lead an ensemble of women who form a choir while their partners are deployed, finding voice and solidarity. Older…

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…

Joan Plowright plays an elderly widow who moves to a London hotel and develops an unlikely friendship with a young writer. A gentle, moving portrait…

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…

Frances McDormand plays a woman in her 60s who joins van-dwelling nomads after losing everything in an economic collapse. An Oscar-winning meditation on loss, freedom,…

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-…

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career and the landmark tax case that launched her legal fight for gender equality. A stirring portrait of…

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…

Judi Dench plays Philomena Lee, a woman searching for the son taken from her by Irish nuns 50 years ago. A story of maternal love,…

Diane Keaton plays a woman with a terminal diagnosis who moves to a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad. Light and predictable but genuinely…

Retired opera singers — played by Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly, and Tom Courtenay — navigate friendship, old rivalries, and lingering romance at a…

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

A polished self-help author (Ron Livingston) about to marry into a refined family discovers he was adopted — and tracks down his boisterous, unfiltered biological…

Meryl Streep plays a woman who abandoned her family to pursue her rock dreams. When her daughter’s life falls apart, she must return and face…

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

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…