Movies That Show Older Women & Younger Men Having Relationships

May 19,2024

Movies in which women are in relationships with younger men: 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back,' and more!.
For decades, there’s been a certain relationship trope in movies that we haven’t exactly been a fan of, and that’s men being romantically involved with younger women. Now, we’re not saying that all these films are bad movies — honestly, we’ll watch Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall any day. But because these types of romances have been so normalized, we really don’t often see enough stories about the opposite: women who have relationships with younger men. And when we do, we talk about them like they’re anomalies or somehow taboo — think The Graduate or Daniel Craig-led The Mother, in which older women