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 difference 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 woman/younger man

• 42plus (2007)
• 20 ans d'écart (2013)

A

• A Dance in the Rain(1961)
• Autumn Leaves (1963)
• A Night in Heaven (1983)
• A Short Film About Love (1988)
• All Things Fair (1995)
• A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
• Agatha and the Storm (2004)
• Après lui (after him)(2007)
• A French Gigolo (2008)
• And While We Were Here (2012)
• Adore (2013)
• A Teacher (2013)

B

• Burning Flowers (1987)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Brief Crossing (2001)
• Book of Love (2004)
• Bel Ami (2012)

C

• Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
• Class (1983)
• Cal (1984)
• Caught (1996)
• Clément (2001)
• Crush (2001)
• Closure (2007)
• Clémence (2007)
• Chéri (2009)
• Chatrak (2011)

D

• Deep Down(1994)
• Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
• Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
• Dreng(2011)
• Don Jon (2013)
• Dirty Teacher (2013)

E

• Earthly Possessions (1999)

F

• Flashbacks of a fool (2008)
• Flirting with Forty (2008 TV Movie)
• Flying Blind (2012)

G

• Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
• Garpastum (2005)

H

• Harold and Maude (1973)
• Homework (1982)
• Her Costly Affair (1996)
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
• Heading South (2005)
• Heimliche Liebe - Der Schüler und die Postbotin (2005)
• Hallam Foe(2007)
• High School (2010)
• How He Fell in Love (2015)
• Hello, My Name Is Doris (2016)

I

• In Praise of Older Women (1978)
• In the Mood (1987)
• In Praise of Older Women (1997)
• I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
• I Am Love (2009)
• In the House (2012)

J

• Jamón, Jamón (1992)

K

• Kung-Fu master (1988)
• Ken Park (2002)
• Kelly & Cal (2014)

L

• La Second moglie(1998)
• La mosquitera(2010)
• Lawn Dogs (1997)
• Lovely and Amazing (2001)
• Lost In Translation(2003)
• Lucía, Lucía(2003)
• Life as a House (2001)
• Les grandes chaleurs (2009)
• Lover Boy (1989)
• Love Ranch (2010)
• Laguna (2001)
• Lucia Lucia (2003)

M

• Malèna (2000)
• Malizia (1973)
• My Tutor (1983)
• My teacher's wife (1999)
• All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
• My Stepson, My Lover (1997 TV Movie)
• Matters of the Heart (1990)

N

• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• No words came down (2010)

O

• Oh, What a Night (1992)

P

• p.s. (2004)
• Pingpong (2006)
• Private Lessons (1981)
• Private Lessons 11 (1993)

R

• Rendez-Vous (2015)

S

• Summer of '42 (1971)
• The Secret of My Success (1987)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
• Strayed (2003)
• Star Maps (1997)
• Sous mes yeux (2002)

T

• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• The Piano Teacher (2001)
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• The Rebound (2009)
• The Boy Next Door (2015)
• The English Teacher (2013)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• The Little Death(1996)
• The Good Girl (2002)
• Tea and Sympathy (1956)
• Tatarak (2009)
• The Man in the Attic(1995)
• To Die For (1995)
• Tadpole (2000)
• The Mother (2003)
• The Love Letter (1999)
• The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
• The Pallbearer (1996)
• Tim (1979)
• The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
• The Reader (2008 film)
• The Lifeguard (2013)
• The Rebound (2009)
• The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003 TV Movie)
• The paperboy (2012)
• Twelve Thirty (2010)

V

• Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler (2000)
• Verfolgt (2006)
• Vive L'Amour (1994)

W

• White Palace (1990)
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Y

• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
• Young Adam (2003)

Older man/younger woman

A

• Albatross (2011)
• Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
• American Beauty (1999)
• An American Haunting (2006)
• Another Earth (2011)
• As Good as it Gets (1997)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Autumn in New York (2000)
• An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

B

• Baby Doll (1956)
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
• Beautiful Girls (1996)
• The Beautiful Person (2008)
• The Best Offer (2013)
• Bitter Moon (1992)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Blame it on Rio (1984)
• Der blaue Engel (1930)
• Blue Car (2002)
• Blue Salt (2011)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• Breathe In (film) (2013)
• Breezy (1973)
• Bulworth (1998)
• But Not for Me (1959)

C

• Casablanca (1942)
• The Cat's Meow (2001)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Charade (1963)
• Circle of Two (1980)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Code 46 (2003)
• Color of night (1994)
• Copenhagen (2014)
• Claire's Knee (1970)
• Crazy Heart (2009)
• The Crush (1993)
• La Cucina (2007)

D

• Daddy Long Legs (1955)
• Damage (1992)
• Daydream Nation (2010)
• Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000)
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• Dr. T and the Women (2000)

E

• The Edge (1997)
• Educating Rita (1983)
• An Education (2009)
• Election (1999)
• Elegy (2008)

F

• The Fair Love (2010)
• The Fighting Temptations (2003)
• Fish Tank (2009)
  • The Four Seasons (1981)
• Fresh Horses (1988)
• Frida (2002)
• Funny Face (1957)

G

• Get Smart (2008)
• Gigi (1958)
• Ginger & Rosa (2012)
• The Girl in the Cafe (2005)
• Goldfish Memory (2003)
• The Governess (1998)
• The Great Gatsby (2013)
• Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
• Guinevere (1999)

H

• Happy Endings (2005)
• Hello, Schoolgirl (2008)
• Hick (2011)
• High Noon (1952)
• High Society (1956)
• Hindsight
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• The Human Stain (2003)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)

I

• Ikiru (1952)
• Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)
• The Invisible Woman (2013)
• Irresistible (2006)
• Irrational Man (2015)

J

• Jane Eyre (1944)
• Jane Eyre (1996)
• The January Man (1989)
• The Judge (2014)
• July Rhapsody (2001)

K

• Killer Joe (2011)
• Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

L

• L.A. Story (1991)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Larry Crowne (2011)
• Last Chance Harvey (2008)
• Leon: The Professional (1994)
• Liberal Arts (2012)
• 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

• Madrid, 1987 (2011)
• Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Me Without You (2001)
• Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005)
• Mermaids (1990)
• Monster's Ball (2001)
• Molly Maxwell (2013)
• My First Mister (2001)

N

• Network (1976)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)
• Noce Blanche (1989)

O

• Oldboy (2003)
• Once Around (1991)
• One Wild Moment (2015)
• The Opposite of Sex (1998)
• The Oranges (2013)
• The Other Woman (2014)

P

• Pale Rider (1985)
• Palindromes (2004)
• Palo Alto (2013)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• A Perfect Murder (1998)
• Petulia (1968)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Poison Ivy (1992)
• Pretty Baby (1978)
• Pretty Persuasion (2005)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Prime (2005)
• Pygmalion (1938)

Q

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

R

• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

S

• Sabrina (1954)
• Sabrina (1995)
• Saturn 3 (1980)
• Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (2008)
• Scusa ma ti voglio sposare (2010)
• 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)
• Stardom (2000)
• Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
• Stepmom (1998)
• Stoker (2013)
• Suburban Girl (2008)
• Susan Slept Here (1954)
• Sweeney Todd (2007)

T

• The Taste of Money (2012)
• Ten North Fredrick (1958)
• These Girls (2005)
• Thirst (2009)
• This Is My Father (1998)
• Times Square (1980)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Towelhead (2007)
• Twinky (1969)
• The Invisible Woman

U

• The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
• Under Solen (1998)
• Unknown (2011)
• Up Close & Personal (1996)

V

• Venus (2006)
• Voyager (1991)

W

• Weekend with the Babysitter (1970)
• Whatever Works (2009)
• Wild Target (2010)
• Wild Things (1998)
• Wish You Were Here (1987)
• Wonder Boys (2000)
• Window Connection (2014)

Men

A

• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• Ausente (Absent)' (2011)

B

• Beginners (2010)
• Behind the Candelabra (2013)
• Blutsfreundschaft (Initiation) (2009)
• Boven is het stil (It's all so Quiet) (2013)

C

• Caresses (Caricias) (1998)
• Chris & Don (2008)
• The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

D

• Daddy (2015)
• David's Birthday (2010)
• Death in Venice (1971)

E

• Eban and Charley (2000)
• Eyes Wide Open (2009)

F

• First Love and Other Pains (1999)
• Food of Love (2002)
• For a Lost Soldier (1992)

G

• Gods and Monsters (1998)
• Gohatto (1999)
• Going Down in LA-LA Land (2011)

L

• L.I.E. (2001)
• Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

M

• Milk (2008)
• Mulligans (2008)

O

• The Opposite of Sex (1998)
• Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)

S

• Sacred Silence a/k/a Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio (1996, Italy)
• Sassy Pants (2012)
• A Single Man (2009)
• Solos (2007)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Sugar (2004)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

T

• To Die Like a Man (2009)
• Torch Song Trilogy (1980)
• Total Eclipse (1995)

U

• Unconditional Love (2002)

V

• Victim (1961)
• The Visitor (2002)

W

• What Happens Next (2011)
• Wilde (1997)
• The Witnesses (Les Témoins) (2007)

Women

A

• Ashley (2013)

B

• Bilitis (1977)
• Bloomington (2010)

C

• Carol (2015)
• Chloe (2009)
• Cracks (2009)

D

• Desert Hearts (1985)

F

• Freeheld (2015)

G

• The Gymnast (2006)
• Grandma (2015)

H

• High Art (1998)

I

• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

L

• Loving Annabelle (2006)

M

• Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

N

• Notes on a Scandal (2006)

P

• The Page Turner (2006)

See also

• Age disparity in sexual relationships

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