Age gap movies
A list of movies I watched involving an older man and a younger woman. There’s a link for the movie trailers and a plot. Search ‘masterlist’ in my blog for a book or movie list.
☆ = I recommend.
La belle personne (2008) Sixteen-year old Junie changes high school mid-year, following the death of her mother. She finds herself in the same class as her cousin Mathias, who introduces her to his friends.But soon after, she encounters the great love of her life, Nemours, her Italian teacher. ☆
Lolita (1997) A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter. ☆
Eungyo (2012) A complicated and volatile relationship develops between the elderly poet, his protege and the precocious high school student.
An education (2009) A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Blue car (2002) A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.
Tanner Hall (2009) In New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming-of-age stories of four teenage girls. ☆
Jane Eyre (2011) A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret. ☆
My teacher (2017) Kosaku Ito teaches world history at a high school. He looks inflexible, but, in fact, he has a warm heart. Hibiki Shimada is a student and she has a crush on Kosaku.
Daydream nation (2010) A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate. ☆
Molly Maxwell (2013) A bright young girl at a prestigious private school begins to realize her true potential after falling into an affair with her worldly English teacher. ☆
Barefoot (2014) The “black sheep” son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who’s been raised in isolation her entire life. He then takes the naive young woman home for his brother’s wedding.
Kinkyori Renai (2014) Yuni a smart high school student who excels in all except for English. She begins to receive one-on-one tutoring from Mr. Haruka Sakurai, the new engñish teacher.. Soon, she develops feelings for her teacher.
It felt like love (2013) Lila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will “sleep with anyone” and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.
Jeune et Jolie (2013) After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes. ☆
After the rain (2018) Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student working part-time at a family restaurant. She finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man with a young son.
Oldboy (2003 korean original & 2013 us version) After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, the protagonist is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. ☆
Ask me anything (2014) A confused teenager writes a blog revealing her daily activities and secrets, advised to do so by her high school guidance counselor in lieu of moving onto her first year in college. ☆
Noce blanche (1989) A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon becomes fascinated by her.
Elegy (2008) Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Sensei Kunshu (2018) Samaru Ayuha had a trouble at a gyudon restaurant due to money. A man at the restaurant, Hiromitsu Yoshitaka, helps her out. The next day, she finds that Yoshitaka has come to her school as a substitute teacher.
Breathe in (2013) When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family’s relationships and alters their lives forever. ☆
Palo Alto (2013) The life and struggles of a group of adolescents living in Palo Alto. ☆
The Oranges (2011) The friendship between the Walling and Ostroff families is tested when Nina (Ostroff daughter), returns home for the holidays after a five-years and enters into an affair with David, head of the Walling family. ☆
Liberal Arts (2012) When 30-something Jesse returns to his alma mater for a professor’s retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.
A royal affair (2012) A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. ☆
Blame (2017) A drama teacher’s taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate. ☆
Manhattan (1979) The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress.
American Beauty (1999) A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter’s best friend.
The crush (1993) A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl.
Daytime Shooting Star (2017) Suzume transfers to a high school in Tokyo. When she gets lost in the big city, a man comes to her rescue who turns out to be her homeroom teacher. Suzume begins to develop feelings for him.
Fish Tank (2009) Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. ☆
Lost in translation (2003) A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Diary of a teenage girl (2015) A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. ☆
Hick (2011) A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.
Stoker (2013) After India’s father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him. ☆
My Little Bride (2004) Bo Eun is an ordinary high school girl. Before his grandfather died he orders her to marry Sang Min. She pretends that she doesn’t have a husband and starts dating her crush. Everything goes smoothly until Sang Min visits Bo Eun’s school as a student teacher.
Ginger & Rosa (2012) Ginger is drawn to poetry and protest, while Rosa shows Ginger how to smoke, kiss boys and pray. Ginger’s pacifist father encourages Ginger’s activism, while Rosa starts to take a very different interest in him.
Buffalo ‘66 (1998) After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.
Beau Père (1981) After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy. ☆
Copenhagen (2014) When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it’s time to grow up.
Guinevere (1999) A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Madrid, 1987 (2011) Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman.
Damage (1992) A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son’s fiancée despite the dangers of discovery
Narratage (2017) University student Izumi is contacted by her drama club advisor in high school. Izumi received the support of Hayama when she had felt out of place at school. However, when they reunite, her feelings begin to intensify. ☆
Policeman and Me (2017) Kako Motoya is in the first year of high school. One day, she pretends she’s a university student and takes part in a group blind date. There, she meets 23-years-old Kota Sagano, a police officer.
My Rainy Days (2009) Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention. She never cared about anyone and is involved in compensated dating. When her photos gets mixed up with a 35 year old college professor, she falls in love. ☆
The Moth Diaries (2011) Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new girl at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa’s bond with Lucy, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (2008) Mayhem ensues when a 37-year-old ad executive on the rebound falls for a bubbly high school senior. (There’s also a spanish version called ’Perdona si te llamo amor’ 2014) ☆
Scusa ma ti voglio sposare (2010) Sequel. Alex and Niki are still in love but their relationship will be put to test because of advices and marital problems of their friends. ☆
Un moment d'égarament (2015) Two friends bring their daughters with them on a beach vacation and find themselves in an awkward situation when one daughter falls in love with her dad’s bestfriend. ☆
The Beach House (2018) The film follows Emma whose quiet beach retreat takes an unsettling turn with the arrival of an enigmatic artist from her mother’s past, Paul.
Sabrina (1954) Chauffeur’s daughter Sabrina returns home from two years in Paris and catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father’s employers, and his older brother, Linus. ☆
After the dark (2014) A philosophy teacher challenges his class of to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Anna (2014) A man with the ability to enter people’s memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled 16 yr old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. ☆
Paju (2006) So close to want but forbidden to love. A girl falls in love with her sister’s husband. ☆
Yong Soon (2016) Yongsoon, an 18 yr old high school student, is a daring, fearless girl who falls in love with the coach of her school’s athletics team
Innocent thing (2014) A high school student develops a crush on her gym teacher.
I’ve updated the list and added 9+ movies.