Movies

Six women in a small Louisiana town support each other through joy and tragedy. One of cinema’s most beloved explorations of female friendship across generations…

Julianne Moore won the Oscar for her portrayal of a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at 50. A shattering portrait of cognitive decline, identity,…

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…

Three childhood best friends — Nora (Diane Keaton), Ginny (Kathy Bates) and Mary (Alfre Woodard) — reunite decades later at an adult session of the…

Billy Wilder’s landmark film noir centers on Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a faded, fabulously wealthy star of the silent era living in delusional seclusion in…

After losing her job and her marriage in a single day, Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her hard-drinking, diabetic grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon),…

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…

A group of Englishwomen — including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Joan Plowright — refuse to abandon their beloved Florence as Mussolini’s Italy rises around…

Four of Britain’s greatest actresses — Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith — gather at Plowright’s country home for an intimate and…

A group of British retirees move to a renovated hotel in India. A crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy about reinvention, romance, and finding new purpose in later…

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

Jim Broadbent plays a 60-year-old taxi driver who steals a Goya painting from the National Gallery. Helen Mirren is magnificent as his long-suffering, devoted, fiercely…

Four college sorority sisters reunite in Key West when Marilyn (Bette Midler) summons them to be bridesmaids at her surprise late-in-life wedding. Long-buried grievances —…

A Chinese family gathers under the pretense of a wedding to say goodbye to their grandmother, who has been diagnosed with cancer but not told.…

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…

An Indian family opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French establishment in a small French village. Helen Mirren is magnificent as the…

The story of Charles Dickens’ secret relationship with young actress Nelly Ternan, seen through the eyes of an older Nelly looking back on the years…

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…

Based on Amy Tan’s landmark novel, four Chinese-American women and their mothers explore the complex bonds between generations. A profoundly moving portrait of women’s lives…

Maggie Smith is a fiercely independent older woman living in a van parked in a writer’s driveway, defying every attempt to pity, tidy away or…

When her Las Vegas revue is abruptly cancelled after 30 years, veteran showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) must reimagine who she is without the only identity…

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are an older couple who slip away for one last road trip in their battered RV, she retaining wit, desire…

Olivia Colman plays a middle-aged academic whose seaside holiday unearths a reckoning with her own ambivalent motherhood. A film unusually willing to grant an older…