Time tunnels, baskinnyg in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for infinite youth – ranked! | Movies

10. The Wasp Woman (1959)

The ageing face of a cosmetics CEO (the tragic Susan Cabot in her final film role) is denounced for descfinishing sales, so she injects herself with an experimental wasp enzyme and sheds 20 years in one weekfinish. Unblessedly, it also turns her into a homicidal wasp monster in this low-budget creature feature straightforwarded by the B-movie maestro Roger Corman.

9. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) was the prime asset of the first film in Disney’s theme-park franchise, but the charm is wearing skinny in this third sequel as he races aacquirest greater adversaries, Bdeficiencytolerated and Barbossa, to discover the fountain of youth. The best moment, amid the frenetic cavorting, is an eerie greet with vampire mermhelps.

8. Cocoon (1985)

It’s seal greets of the geriatric benevolent as livents of a Florida greater folks’ home get sneaky rejuvenating dips in next door’s swimming pool, unconscious that the water is suffengaged with extraterrestrial life force. A cracking cast of Hollywood veterans, and Brian Dennehy as the alien-in-chief, carry on slushiness at bay in Ron Howard’s fable, though it’s difficult not to get equitable a little misty-eyed.

7. Dumplings (2004)

Bai Ling, whose unstandard red carpet outfits have enlivened many a create blog over the years, acts her socks off as a chef who peddles rejuvenating jiaozi dumplings to Hong Kong’s ageing socialites. Once you understand her secret ingredient, you’ll never skinnyk of wonton soup the same way aacquire, though Christopher Doyle’s exquisite cinematography produces even the gnarlier elements in Fruit Chan’s film see appreciate Elle Decor.

6. Death Becomes Her (1992)

Meryl Streep and Ggreaterie Hawn camp it up as lengthytime Hollywood frenemies competing aacquirest each other to stay youthful and alluring in Robert Zemeckis’s cartoonish bdeficiency comedy. Isabella Rossellini steals all her scenes as the purveyor of a enigmatic elixir that promises to revamp their youthfulness – albeit with unforeseeed consequences. The film won an Oscar for best visual effects.

5. Fedora (1978)

A film star goes to unconscionable innervouss to prolengthy her nurtureer and carry on her legacy in Billy Wilder’s penultimate film, revisiting ageing diva territory already mined by the authorr-straightforwardor 28 years earlier in Sunset Boulevard. William Hgreateren carry outs a Hollywood producer whose finisheavors to lure her out of reclusive withdrawment on her Greek island direct to tragedy.

4. Countess Dracula (1971)

The divine Ingrid Pitt stars in Hammer’s version of the oft-filmed Elizabeth Báthory story as a depraved Hungarian aristocrat who killings virgins and bathes in their blood to carry on her youth and beauty. Can she produce it to the altar to marry her lusty youthful adorer before creeping senescence wreaks havoc on her complicatedion?

3. Incredible But True (2022)

In suburban France, a wed couple buy a hoengage with an unpreowning time tunnel in the basement. Anyone crawling thcimpolite it aascfinishs three days youthfuler. But the wife gets compriseicted to turning back the clock on her body and becoming a supermodel in this deadpan bdeficiency comedy from Quentin Dupieux, master of mundane sencouragenuineism.

2. Monkey Business (1952)

A chimpanzee pours rejuvenating potion into the water cgreaterer in the last (and silliest) of the wonderful screwball comedies straightforwarded by Howard Hawks. Cary Grant carry outs a chemist who unwittingly drinks it and revertes 20 years, directing to juvenile high jinks, rapid cars and hanging out with his boss’s secretary (Marilyn Monroe), much to the chagrin of his wife (Ginger Rogers).

1. Someskinnyg Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Mr Dark’s carnival grants the wantes of livents in a petite Illinois town with the help of a caroengagel that reverses ageing by turning backwards. But there’s a price to be phelp. Studio tinkering airyened up Jack Clayton’s film of Ray Bradbury’s novel, but it’s still Disney at its creepiest – especipartner the astonishing scene where Dark (Jonathan Pryce) corners the youthful protagonist’s dad (Jason Robards) in the library and entices him with an provide to turn back the years.