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Infidelity. 2021 · 1 hr 23 min. TV-MA. Drama · Romance. Struggling within a passionless marriage, a woman decides to fulfill her own desires, by breaking away from her husband and the woman she once was.
- Nigina Saifullajewa
- 82 min
- January 1, 2021
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- American Beauty. Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch. 227 votes. American Beauty is a profound and bitingly satirical look at suburban life, desire, and self-revelation woven through the fabric of a midlife crisis and an infatuation that spirals out of control.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams. Drama, Romance (2h 14m) 7.7 on IMDb — 88% on RT. There are few films sadder than Brokeback Mountain.
- An Affair to Remember (1957) Directed by Leo McCarey. Starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning. Drama, Romance (1h 55m) 7.4 on IMDb — 66% on RT. An Affair to Remember, the absolute oldest movie on our list, is still one of the greatest movies about cheating ever made.
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley. Drama, Romance (2h 15m) 7.6 on IMDb — 90% on RT.
- Indecent Proposal (1993) Directed by Adrian Lyne. Starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson. Drama, Romance (1h 57m) 6.0 on IMDb — 34% on RT. Starring Robert Redford in a classic performance, Indecent Proposal starts off with a dangerous question that perhaps more than a few couples have toyed with.
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Claire Denis has previously grappled with infidelity in her 2001 featureFriday Night (2001), which also starred Vincent London. Here, he plays an ex-con who is happily married to a radio host played by Juliette Binoche, but when his old friend, and her old flame, re-enter their lives, their relationship becomes fraught with heightened emotions. Bin...
Visconti’s extraordinarily accomplished directorial debut, an adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (later adapted in Hollywood, first in 1946 with Lana Turner and John Garfield, and later, in 1981, with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange), was an early example of Italian neorealism. It's a portrait of a marriage torn apa...
Moodily scored by Miles Davis, Louis Malle’s chamber thriller finds Jeanne Moreau’s unhappy wife and her lover, played by Maurice Ronet, planning the murder of her industrialist husband. Everything has been worked out to perfection. And yet, from the opening sequence – an intimate close-up of Moreau’s Florence talking on the phone to her lover – Ma...
An acclaimed writer and academic is invited to Portugal to give a lecture. On the flight, he is distracted by an attendant. Soon after, they begin an affair, which his wife eventually discovers. François Truffaut’s fourth feature was not popular with audiences, but its stature has grown over time. Even by the standards of Truffaut’s playfulness, th...
A cop suspects his wife is having an affair. When he finds out the identity of her lover, he pays him a visit, hoping to talk calmly, perhaps even come to some sort of arrangement that will allow the three to continue their lives. But a sudden and violent bout of jealousy changes everything. Claude Chabrol was the master of the domestic thriller an...
The sixth film in Éric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series is less a movie about infidelity as a high drama as it is a study of twenty-something relationships in a state of constant flux. (A scenario that Jacques Audiard also explored with his 2021 monochrome delight Paris, 13thDistrict.) Unfolding in a new town outside Paris, it follows five ind...
A film that put paid to countless extramarital affairs, Fatal Attractionhas come to be seen as one of the quintessential late-1980s Hollywood films. There is more gloss than substance here, but the story of a Manhattan lawyer who finds himself stalked by a psychotic lover ultimately succeeds because of the committed performances of Michael Douglas,...
This wasn’t the first adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 epistolary novel, but it is the sexiest. Glenn Close is the scheming Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil. John Malkovich is loucheness personified as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont. Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves are the young pawns. And Michelle Pfeiffer is the pious and engaged Madame Mar...
Steven Soderbergh’s Cannes-winningdebut became the standard bearer for a new generation of independent US filmmakers. A four-hander, it charts the domestic disturbance that follows the arrival of Graham (James Spader) at the house of his old friend John (Peter Gallagher), a lawyer who is married to Ann (Andie MacDowell) and who happens to be having...
In one of her finest roles, Nicole Kidman plays Suzanne Stone, a social climber who marries for stability, but soon comes to regret her decision. As she gains fame as a local TV weather forecaster, and her husband Larry (Matt Dillon) puts pressure on her to give up work and start a family – a future that conflicts with her growing ambitions – Suzan...
- Unfaithful – Netflix. The erotic thriller revolves around a New York suburban couple and the wife who starts an affair with a stranger. However, the husband soon gets suspicious about it.
- The Girl on the Train – Netflix and SonyLIV. Based on Paula Hawkin’s bestseller of the same name, the movie might not be entirely about the extramarital affair but more of a thriller.
- Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna – Netflix. One of Karan Johar’s directorial, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is one of the handful of Bollywood movies dealing with an extramarital affair.
- Fatal Attraction – YouTube. A married lawyer Dan Gallagher gets involved in a one-night with his colleague Alex, who refuses to believe that things are over between them.
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6 days ago · 1. Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. 350 votes. Set against the backdrop of the ill-fated RMS Titanic, this epic romantic drama chronicles the passionate and clandestine affair between a wealthy socialite, Rose, and a penniless artist, Jack.
