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.

Contents 1 Older Man/ Younger Woman 2 Older Woman/ Younger Man 3 Older Man/ Younger Man 4 Older Woman/ Younger Woman 5 References

[edit] Older Man/ Younger Woman

• Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Atlantic City (1980)^[1]
• Autumn in New York (2000)^[2]
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
• Beautiful Girls (1996)
• Breezy (1973)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Charade (1963)
• The Crush (1993)^[1]
• Daddy Long Legs (1955)
• Damage (1992)
• Der blaue Engel (1930)
• The Edge (1997)
• Election (1999)
• Forty Carats (1973)^[3]
• Frida (2002)
• Funny Face (1957)
• Ghost World (2001)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
• Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
• Gigi (1958)
• Girl with Green Eyes (1964)^[1]
• Goldfish Memory (2003)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)^[3]
• The Governess (1998)
• Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
• Guinevere (1999)^[1]
• Happy Endings (2005)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)^[3]
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)^[3]
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)^[4]
• Jane Eyre (1944)
• Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)^[4]
• Léon (1994)
• Limelight (1952)
• Little Women (1994)
• Lolita (1962)^[4]
• Lost in Translation (2003)^[4]
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)^[4]
• Manhattan (1979)^[5]
• Me Without You (2001)
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
• Murphy's Romance (1985)
• My First Mister (2001)
• The Opposite of Sex (1998)
• Palindromes (film) (2004)
• A Perfect Murder (1998)^[3]
• Petulia (1968)
• Poison Ivy (1992)
• Sabrina (1954)^[3]
• Secretary (2001)
• Shopgirl (2005)^[6]
• Sin City (2005)^[7][8]
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)^[3]
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)^[4]
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Stealing Beauty (1996)
• Susan Slept Here (1954)
• The Professional (aka Leon) (1994)
• It Started in Naples (1970)^[3]
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Towelhead (2007)
• Twinky (1969)
• Under Solen (1998)
• Vertigo (1958)
• What Have They Done To Solange? (1972)
• Wish You Were Here (1987)

[edit] Older Woman/ Younger Man

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)^[4]
• All That Heaven Allows^[4]
• American Pie Movies
• Being Julia (2004)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Character Paul "Fred" Varjak's relationship with an older "matron" figure.)
• Class (1983)
• Crush
• Diva (1981)
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Far from Heaven^[4]
• The Good Girl (2002)
• Goodbye Again (1961)
• The Graduate (1967)^[4]
• Green Chair
• Harold and Maude (1971)^[4]
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)^[4]
• I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
• Impromptu (1992)
• In the Bedroom (2001)
• Life as a House (2001)
• The Love Letter (1999)^[1]
• Lovely and Amazing (2001)
• The Mother (2003)^[1]
• A Night in Heaven (1983)
• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• P.S. (2005)^[9]
• The Pallbearer (1996)
• Prime (2005)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)
• Summer of '42 (1971)
• Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
• Tadpole (2002)
• Tim (1979)^[4]
• White Palace (1990)
• Y tu mamá también (2001)

[edit] Older Man/ Younger Man

• Total Eclipse (1995)
• Wilde (1997)
• Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

[edit] Older Woman/ Younger Woman

• Desert Hearts (1985)
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
• Loving Annabelle (2006)

[edit] References