List of films featuring May-December romances

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.

Older Man/ Younger Woman

* "" (2001)
* "An American in Paris" (1951)
* "Atlantic City" (1980)cite web |url=http://www.movierevie.ws/genres/402/1/May-December-Romance.html |title=May-December Romance movie reviews |accessdate=2007-02-28 |publisher=MovieRevie.ws]
* "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002)
* "Autumn in New York" (2000) [cite web |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Autumn%20in%20New%20York%20(Movie)%20%20&title2=&reviewer=Stephen%20Holden&pdate=20000812&v_id= |title=FILM REVIEW; May-December Romance? Or Simply Hot and Cold? |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=New York Times]
* "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005)
* "Beautiful Girls" (1996)
* "The Big Sleep" (1946)
* "Blame it on Rio" (1984)
* "Breezy" (1973)
* "Bulworth" (1998)
* "Chaplin" (1992)
* "Charade" (1963)
* "The Crush" (1993)
* "Daddy Long Legs" (1955)
* "Damage" (1992)
* "Der blaue Engel" (1930)
* "The Edge" (1997)
* "Election" (1999)
* "Elegy" (2008)
* "Forty Carats" (1973)
* "Frida" (2002)
* "Funny Face" (1957)
* "Get Smart" (2008)
* "Ghost World" (2001)
* "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003)
* "Great Balls of Fire!" (1989)
* "Gigi" (1958)
* "Girl with Green Eyes" (1964)
* "Goldfish Memory" (2003)
* "As Good as It Gets" (1997)
* "The Governess" (1998)
* "Gregory's Two Girls" (1999)
* "Guinevere" (1999)
* "Happy Endings" (2005)
* "To Have and Have Not" (1944)
* "High Society" (1956)
* "The Horse Whisperer" (1998)
* "Husbands and Wives" (1992)
* "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953)
* "Ikiru" (1952)
* "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965)
* "Interview with the Vampire" (1994)
* "Jane Eyre" (1944)
* "Knickerbocker Holiday" (1944)
* "L.A. Story" (1991)
* "Last Tango in Paris" (1972)
* "Léon" (1994)
* "Limelight" (1952)
* "Little Women" (1994)
* "Lolita" (1962)cite web |url=http://movies.msn.com/movies/dvd/maydecember |title=To honor May, we offer up movie relationships that know no age limit |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=MSN]
* "Lost in Translation" (2003)
* "Love in the Afternoon" (1957)
* "Manhattan" (1979) [cite web |url=http://www.dvdmg.com/manhattan.shtml |title=Manhattan 1979 |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=DVD Movie Guide |last=Jacobson |first=Colin ]
* "Me Without You" (2001)
* "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982)
* "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995)
* "The Misfits" (1961)
* "Murphy's Romance" (1985)
* "My Fair Lady" (1964)
* "My First Mister" (2001)
* "Network" (1976)
* "The Opposite of Sex" (1998)
* "Palindromes" (2004)
* "A Perfect Murder" (1998)
* "Petulia" (1968)
* "Poison Ivy" (1992)
* "Rio Bravo" (1959)
* "Sabrina" (1954)
* "Secretary" (2001)
* "Shopgirl" (2005) [cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/shopgirl.html |title=True Romance Shopgirl is that Hollywood rarity: a plausible love story |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=CBC.ca |last=Mayer |first=Andre ]
* "Sin City" (2005) [Hartigan: "There's wrong and there's wrong and then there's this. For God's sake, you're just a kid!"
Nancy: "I love you."
Hartigan: "I love you, too. With all my heart."] [cite web|url=http://www.timeoutabudhabi.com/thismonth/feature.php?id=241|title=Hot in the city|last=Webb|first=Marcus|accessdate=March 1|accessyear=2007]
* "Six Days Seven Nights" (1998)cite web |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1175/is_1_32/ai_53479125 |title=Beware Older Women Ahead - older women dating younger men in the movies - Abstract |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=Psychology Today |last=Pittman |first=Frank |date= Jan, 1999]
* "Something's Gotta Give" (2003)
* "The Sound of Music" (1965)
* "Stealing Beauty" (1996)
* "Susan Slept Here" (1954)
* "The Professional" (aka Leon) (1994)
* "It Started in Naples" (1970)
* "Taxi Driver" (1976)
* "To Catch a Thief" (1955)
* "Towelhead" (2007)
* "Twinky" (1969)
* "Under Solen" (1998)
* "Vertigo (1958)
* "Wish You Were Here" (1987)

Older Woman/ Younger Man

* "" (1974)
* "All That Heaven Allows"
* "American Pie" Movies
* "Being Julia" (2004)
* "Belle maman" "(Beautiful Mother)" (1998)
* "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) (Character Paul "Fred" Varjak's relationship with an older "matron" figure.)
* "Class" (1983)
* "Crush" (2001)
* "Diva" (1981)
* "The Door in the Floor" (2004)
* "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (1939)
* "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
* "Far from Heaven" (2002)
* "The Good Girl" (2002)
* "Goodbye Again" (1961)
* "The Graduate" (1967)
* "Harold and Maude" (1971)
* "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" (1998)
* "I Could Never Be Your Woman" (2007)
* "Impromptu" (1992)
* "In the Bedroom" (2001)
* "Life as a House" (2001)
* "Losin' It" (1983)
* "The Love Letter" (1999)
* "Lovely and Amazing" (2001)
* "The Mother" (2003)
* "A Night in Heaven" (1983)
* "Notes on a Scandal" (2006)
* "P.S." (2005) [cite web |url=http://nsfc.zap2it.com/nsfc/cda/index.jsp?p_state=8&DvdId=67164&ts=1152776972409 |title=National Society of Film Critics Poss: P.S. |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=Zap2It.com ]
* "The Pallbearer" (1996)
* "Prime" (2005)
* "Rushmore" (1998)
* "Something's Gotta Give" (2003)
* "Summer of '42 (1971)
* "" (2006)
* "Tadpole" (2002)
* "Tim" (1979)
* "White Palace" (1990)
* "Y tu mamá también" (2001)

Older Man/ Younger Man

* "Total Eclipse" (1995)
* "Wilde" (1997)
* "Love and Death on Long Island" (1997)
* "" (1998)

Older Woman/ Younger Woman

* "Desert Hearts" (1985)
* "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" (1987)
* "Loving Annabelle" (2006)
* "Notes on a Scandal" (2006)

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