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. (Note: Large age differences between romantic leads in pre-1950 movies were fairly common.)

Older Man/ Younger Woman

  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • Atlantic City (1980)
  • Autumn in New York (2000)
  • The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
  • Beautiful Girls (1996)
  • Bulworth (1998)
  • Chaplin (1992)
  • Charade (1963)
  • The Crush (1993)
  • Daddy Long Legs (1955)
  • Damage (1992)
  • Der blaue Engel (1930)
  • The Edge (1997)
  • Election (1999)
  • Forty Carats (1973)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998)
  • Husbands and Wives (1992)
  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
  • Jane Eyre (1944)
  • Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
  • L.A. Story (1991)
  • Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  • Limelight (1952)
  • Little Women (1994)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • Lost In Translation (2003)
  • Love in the Afternoon (1957)
  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Me Without You (2001)
  • A Midsummer Night's [...] Comedy (1982)
  • Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
  • My First Mister (2001)
  • The Opposite of [...] (1998)
  • Palindromes (film) (2004)
  • A Perfect [...] (1998)
  • Petulia (1968)
  • Poison Ivy (1992)
  • Sabrina (1954)
  • Secretary (2001)
  • Shopgirl (2005)
  • Sin City (2005)
  • Six Days Seven NiGHTS (1998)
  • Something's Gotta Give (2003)
  • Stealing Beauty (1996)
  • Susan Slept Here (1954)
  • The Professional (aka Leon) (1994)
  • It Started in Naples (1970)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Twinky (1969)
  • Under Solen (1998)
  • What Have They Done To Solange? (1972)
  • Wish You Were Here (1987)

Older Woman/ Younger Man

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • 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
  • The Good Girl (2002)
  • Goodbye Again (1961)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Green Chair
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
  • Impromptu (1992)
  • In the Bedroom (2001)
  • The Love Letter (1999)
  • Lovely and Amazing (2001)
  • The Mother (2003)
  • A Night in Heaven (1983)
  • Notes on a Scandal (2006)
  • P.S. (2005)
  • 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)
  • White Palace (1990)
  • Y Tu Mama Tambien

Older Man/ Younger Man

  • Total Eclipse (1995)
  • Wilde (1997)
  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis BaCon (1998)

Older Woman/ Younger Woman

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