List of films featuring May-December romances
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List of movies featuring May-December romances.
This is a list of mainstream movies featuring significant 'May-December' romances, where the age differential between the two adults is wide enough to risk social disapproval.
In each of the films listed below, the age difference is a major part of the film plot. (Note: Large age differences between romantic leads in pre-1950 movies were fairly common.)
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[edit] Older Man/ Younger Woman
- Der blaue Engel (1930)
- Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
- Jane Eyre (1944)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Funny Face (1957)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Gigi (1958)
- Limelight (1952)
- Charade (1963)
- Lolita (1962)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Atlantic City (1980)
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
- Wish You Were Here (1987)
- L.A. Story (1991)
- Chaplin (1992)
- Husbands and Wives (1992)
- Poison Ivy (1992)
- Damage (1992)
- The Crush (1993)
- The Professional (aka Leon) (1994)
- Little Women (1994)
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
- Beautiful Girls (1996)
- Stealing Beauty (1996)
- The Opposite of Sex (1998)
- The Governess (1998)
- Under Solen (1998)
- Guinevere (1999)
- Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Election (1999)
- Autumn in New York (2000)
- My First Mister (2001)
- Ghost World (2001)
- Me Without You (2001)
- Secretary (2001)
- Lost In Translation (2003)
- Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
- Something's Gotta Give (2003)
- Palindromes (film) (2004)
- Sin City (2005)
- Shopgirl (2005)
- Happy Endings (2005)
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
[edit] Older Woman/ Younger Man
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Harold and Maude (1971)
- Summer of '42 (1971)
- Diva (1981)
- Class (1983)
- A Night in Heaven (1983)
- White Palace (1990)
- Impromptu (1992)
- Rushmore (1998)
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- The Love Letter (1999)
- In the Bedroom (2001)
- Lovely and Amazing (2001)
- The Good Girl (2002)
- Tadpole (2002)
- Something's Gotta Give (2003)
- Being Julia (2004)
- P.S. (2005)
- Prime (2005)
- Green Chair
- American Pie Movies
[edit] Older Man/ Younger Man
- Maurice (1987)
- Total Eclipse (1995)
- Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
- Wilde (1997)
- Gods and Monsters (1998)
[edit] Older Woman/ Younger Woman
- The Killing of Sister George (1968)
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- What Have They Done To Solange? (1972)
- Desert Hearts (1985)
- Carried Away (1996)
- A Chef in Love (1996)
- Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
- The Housekeeper (2002)
- Cet Amour-La (2002)
- Goldfish Memory (2003)
- Brother Outsider
- Space Cowboys
- The Mother
(A notable TV drama series featuring a significant May-December relationship is Northern Exposure.)
