American Beauty (1999)

If you’re over 40, you can likely identify with longing for lost youth and desiring a return to simpler times. The film American Beauty documents a man’s struggle with real-life vs. fantasy as he lusts after his teenage daughter’s girlfriend.

A memorable moment in this film involves Lester’s appearance at a high school basketball game. As he becomes fixated on Mena Suvari’s character, the rest of the scene fades to black and she shows what it means to be young, beautiful, and uninhibited.