8 ½ Women

8 ½ Women streams in the US on Philo, and free with ads on Fandor, Shout! Factory TV, Plex and 3 more apps, as of October 6, 2026.

If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?

After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.