Movies

A feature documentary on menopause: the biology, the medical system’s failures, and what women can do. Created by journalist Tamsen Fadal; premiered at a US…

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…

Susan Sarandon plays a recently widowed mother who relocates to be near her daughter and slowly rebuilds her own purpose and identity. A tender, funny…

Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Laura Linney play Irish women who win a trip to Lourdes, taking along a long-estranged friend. A warm, funny, moving…

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…

When a lesbian teenager is barred from bringing her girlfriend to her small-town Indiana prom, a quartet of fading Broadway stars led by diva Dee…

With only a single room left at the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, co-manager Sonny pursues his dream of opening a second hotel even as his…

A fading fitness TV host (Demi Moore) injects a black-market substance that generates a younger version of herself—with escalating, grotesque consequences. Winner of the Cannes…

Glenn Close gives a legendary performance as a woman who has spent decades suppressing her genius to support her Nobel Prize-winning husband. A film about…

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…

A 93-year-old woman is scammed out of ten thousand dollars and sets off across Los Angeles on a motorized scooter to get it back. June…

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…

A retired woman has concealed her decades-long love affair with her next-door neighbor from the family. When her partner suffers a stroke, she defies the…

Voices: Our Stories Before Roe v. Wade gathers the firsthand testimonies of women who came of age before 1973, when safe, legal abortion was not…

Blythe Danner gives a dignified, fully human performance as a mother with Alzheimer’s as her adult children clash over her care. Why it’s here: dementia…

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…

Your Roots Are Showing is an award-winning documentary by makeup and hair artist Ilise Harris exploring the global movement of women embracing gray hair. Through…