List of films featuring romances of significant age disparity

This is a list of mainstream films featuring romances of significant age disparity, where the age differential between The Two people is wide enough to risk social disapproval. In some of the films listed below, the age difference is a major part of the film plot.

Older Male/Younger Female

A

  • Absolon (2003)
  • An Affair to Remember (1957)
  • Albatross (2011)
  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • An American Haunting (2006)
  • An American in Paris (1951)
  • An Education (2009)
  • Another Earth (2011)
  • As Good as it Gets (1997)
  • Atlantic City (1980)
  • Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
  • Autumn in New York (2000)
  • An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

B

  • Baby Doll (1956)
  • The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
  • Beautiful Girls (1996)
  • Big Daddy (1999)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Bitter Moon (1992)
  • Black Swan (2010)
  • Blame it on Rio (1984)
  • Blue Salt (2011)
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  • Breezy (1973)
  • Bulworth (1998)

C

  • Casablanca (1942)
  • The Cat's Meow (2001)
  • Chaplin (1992)
  • Charade (1963)
  • Circle of Two (1980)
  • Code 46 (2003)
  • Claire's Knee (1970)
  • Crazy Heart (2009)
  • The Crush (1993)
  • La Cucina (2007)

D

  • Daddy Long Legs (1955)
  • Damage (1992)
  • Daydream Nation (2010)
  • Der blaue Engel (1930)
  • ''Dr. T and the Women (2000)

E

  • The Edge (1997)
  • An Education (2009)
  • Election (1999)
  • Elegy (2008)
  • Fair Love (2010)
  • Une femme de ménage (2002)
  • The Fighting Temptations (2003)
  • Fish Tank (2009)
  • Forty Carats (1973)
  • For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  • Fresh Horses (1988)
  • Frida (2002)
  • Funny Face (1957)

G

  • Get Smart (2008)
  • Ghost World (2001)
  • Gigi (1958)
  • The Girl in the Cafe (2005)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
  • Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  • Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
  • The Great Gatsby (2012)
  • Goldfish Memory (2003)
  • The Governess (1998)
  • Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
  • Guinevere (1999)

H

  • Happy Endings (2005)
  • Hatari! (1962)
  • Hindsight
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • Hello, Schoolgirl (2008)
  • High Society (1956)
  • Homo Faber (1991)
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998)
  • The Human Stain (2003)
  • Husbands and Wives (1992)
  • How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

I

  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
  • Irresistible (2006)

J

  • Jane Eyre (1944)
  • Jane Eyre (1996)
  • The January Man (1989)
  • July Rhapsody (2001)

K

  • '' Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)
  • '' Ken Park (2002)
  • Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
  • Kurukkante Kalyanam (1982)

L

  • L.A. Story (1991)
  • Labyrinth (1986)
  • Larry Crowne (2011)
  • Last Chance Harvey (2008)
  • Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  • The Last Time (2006)
  • Léon: The Professional (1994)
  • Limelight (1952)
  • Lisa (1989)
  • Little Women (1994)
  • Live and let die (1973)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • Lolita (1997)
  • Lost in Translation (2003)
  • Love in the Afternoon (1957)
  • The Lover (1992)

M

  • Manhattan (1979)
  • The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  • Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005)
  • Me Without You (2001)
  • Middle of the Night (1959)
  • A Midsummer Night's [...] Comedy (1982)
  • Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
  • Mini's First Time (2006)
  • The Misfits (1961)
  • Miss Bala (2011)
  • Un moment d'égarement (1977)
  • Moonraker (1979)
  • Murphy's Romance (1985)
  • A Muse (2012)
  • My First Mister (2001)

N

  • Network (1976)
  • Never Say Never Again (1983)
  • North by Northwest (1959)

O

  • Octopussy (1983)
  • Oldboy (2003)
  • The Opposite of [...] (1998)

P

  • Pale Rider (1985)
  • Palindromes (2004)
  • Paris, Texas (1984)
  • A Perfect [...] (1998)
  • Petulia (1968)
  • Pineapple Express (2008)
  • Poison Ivy (1992)
  • Pretty Baby (1978)

Q

  • ''The Quiet American (1958)
  • The Quiet American (2002)

R

  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
  • Raja (2003)
  • Rio Bravo (1959)

S

  • Sabrina (1954)
  • Sabrina (1995)
  • Saturn 3 (1980)
  • Secretary (2001)
  • Sense and Sensibility (1995)
  • The Seven Year Itch (1955)
  • Shanghai Kiss (2007)
  • Shopgirl (2005)
  • Sin City (2005)
  • Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
  • Smart People (2008)
  • Something's Gotta Give (2003)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • La Soupe aux choux (1981)
  • South Pacific (1958)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  • Stardom (2000)
  • Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
  • Stealing Beauty (1996)
  • Suburban Girl (2008)
  • Sucker Punch (2011)
  • Susan Slept Here (1954)
  • Sweeney Todd (2007)
  • It Started in Naples (1970)

T

  • The Taste of Money (2012)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Ten North Fredrick (1958)
  • Thirst (2009)
  • This Is My Father (1998)
  • Times Square (1980)
  • Towelhead (2007)
  • Twinky (1969)

U

  • Under Solen (1998)
  • Up Close & Personal (1996)
  • Unknown (2011)

V

  • Venus (film) (2006)
  • A View to a Kill (1985)

W

  • Watchmen (2009)
  • Whatever Works (2009)
  • Wild Target (2010)
  • Wish You Were Here (1987)
  • Wonder Boys (2000)

Older Female/Younger Male

  • 40 Carats (1973)
  • A Tiger's Tale (1987)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • American Pie (1999)
  • Being Julia (2004)
  • Belle maman (1998)
  • Big (1988)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  • Bull Durham (1988)
  • Cheri (2009)
  • Class (1983)
  • ''Clément (2001)
  • Cougar Club (2007)
  • Crush (2001)
  • Diva (1981)
  • The Door in the Floor (2004)
  • Far from Heaven (2002)
  • Flirting with Forty (2008)
  • Friends (1997) & (1998)
  • The Good Girl (2002)
  • Goodbye Again (1961)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • Hello Schoolgirl (2008)
  • Heading South (2005)
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
  • ''I Am Love (2009)
  • I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
  • Impromptu (1992)
  • In Praise of Older Women (1978)
  • In the Bedroom (2001)
  • Ken Park (2002)
  • The Last Picture Show (1971)
  • Life as a House (2001)
  • Losin' It (1983)
  • The Love Letter (1999)
  • Lovely & Amazing (2001)
  • Malèna (2000)
  • Meeting Venus (1991)
  • Moment by Moment (1978)
  • The Mother (2003)
  • Mourir d'aimer (1971)
  • A Night in Heaven (1983)
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006)
  • P.S. (2005)
  • The Pallbearer (1996)
  • Prime (2005)
  • Private Lessons (1981)
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
  • The Rebound (2009)
  • The Reader (2008)
  • Reckless (1997)
  • Rushmore (1998)
  • Sanky Panky (2007)
  • Summer of '42 (1971)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
  • Tadpole (2002)
  • Tim (1979)
  • TiMER (2009)
  • Tokyo Tower (2005)
  • To Die For (1995)
  • Water for Elephants (2011)
  • White Palace (1990)
  • Unfaithful (2002)
  • Y tu mamá también (2001)

Older Male/Younger Male

  • Another Gay Movie (2006)
  • Chris & Don (2008)
  • Food of Love (2002)
  • L.I.E. (2001)
  • Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
  • Milk (2008)
  • Mulligans (2008)
  • The Opposite of [...] (1998)
  • A Single Man (2009)
  • Sugar (2004)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
  • Total Eclipse (1995)
  • Victim (1961)
  • What Happens Next (2011)
  • Wilde (1997)
  • The Witnesses (Les Témoins) (2007)
  • Beginners (2010)
  • The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
  • Gods and Monsters (1998)
  • Communication (Short Film) (2010)

Older Female/Younger Female

  • Bilitis (1977)
  • Bloomington (2010)
  • Desert Hearts (1985)
  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
  • High Art (1998)
  • Loving Annabelle (2006)
  • Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006)
  • The Page Turner (2006)

See also

  • Age disparity in [...] relationships

References

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