The Older Woman/Younger Male Relationship

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“How Stella Got Her Groove Back” is about the sumptuous romance of a 40-year-old woman and 20-year-old man.

In "Bullets Over Broadway", Dianne Wiest's aging actress romances young writer Jack Cusack for a bigger part in his play.

In "To Die For", Nicole Kidman's TV weatherwoman seduces the high school aged Joaquin Phoenix.

In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) seduces Nick (George Segal) merely to make her husband jealous and then proceeds to make Nick feel like a flop in bed. With a single sex act, she wins victories over two men, turning both into houseboys.

In “Never on Sunday”, introducing virginal boys to the joys of sex was always a holiday for the Piraeus prostitute of Melina Mercouri.

In “Tea and Sympathy”, Deborah Kerr's faculty wife is just trying to save an adolescent virgin from homosexuality.

In “Summer of '42”, Jennifer O'Neill's twenty-two year old character becomes widowed by the war and she gets through the night with a 16-year-old boy (Gary Grimes), who remains forever grateful.

“The Last Picture Show” offers a similar motive: the neglected middle-aged coach's wife (Cloris Leachman) and an orphaned high-school student (Timothy Bottoms) go through their loveless sexual mechanics to find mutual comfort in a dying town.

Most famously in "The Graduate", Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) picks Dustin Hoffman's virginal recent graduate to be her private stud rather than her prospective son-in-law.