Dysfunctional marriage movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant dysfunctional marriage movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, erotic, captivating, sexual and psychological films and TV shows about / with dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, female nudity, sex, couples, infidelity, marriage, adultery, cheating wife and sex scene plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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dysfunctional marriage movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as dysfunctional marriage: Det mest f?rbjudna (2016), Angst (2003), Castle Freak (1995), Such Is Life (2000), Monamour (2005), Satisfaction (2014), Forbidden (2001), The Other End (2016), Between Us (2009), Intimacy (2001).

List of dysfunctional marriage movies

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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A wealthy man (played by former James Bond villain Adolf Celli) suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife (Carroll Baker). Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor (Luigi Pistilli) instead ...
Style: crying, sex comedy, erotic
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, stepmother stepson relationship, voyeur, sex with stepson, females talking about sex, dysfunctional marriage, swinger party, neglected wife, erotica, older woman teenage boy sex, impotent husband, sex with stepmother ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: milan italy
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Det mest f?rbjudna (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Freely adapted from the novel by Swedish writer Kerstin Thorvall.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: neglected wife, dysfunctional marriage, lifestyle, family problems, family relations, mental illness, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, relationship vs career, mental patient, family life, relationship problems ...
Time: year 1976, year 2005, year 1959, year 1968
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 6.5
 507
Angst (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sexual
Plot: terminal illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle, relationship problems, family problems, crumbling marriage, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, depression, father son relationship, loss of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany
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 5.9
 10K
Castle Freak (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become ...
Style: scary, slasher, lovecraft, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: haunted by the past, blindness, cannibalism, monster, macabre, freak, inheritance, murder, violence, castle, prostitute, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe
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 6.3
 352
Such Is Life (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Based on the Greek tragedy MEDEA, this is a present day Mexican version, set in the seediest possible milieu of Mexico City. A woman abandoned by her husband, is thrown out of her apartment by her landlord - who is also her husband's new ...
Style: touching, melancholic, suspense, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, unrequited love, revenge, husband wife relationship, tragedy, dysfunctional marriage, betrayal, infidelity, adultery, family relations, abandoned by father, begging ...
Place: mexico city
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 5.2
 6K
Monamour (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marta is a young housewife, married to Dario, a successful book publisher. Although she still loves her husband, Marta hasn't been able to achieve sexual satisfaction for months due to their dull and predictable love life. While staying in ...
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, erotic drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unfaithful wife, erotica, infidelity, lust, erotic fantasy, unhappy marriage, cheating wife, sexual promiscuity, sexual pleasure, promiscuous woman, sexually dissatisfied wife, bare breasts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, italy
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 7.2
 4K
Satisfaction (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A provocative drama that explores modern marriage at its midpoint. Through the lens of one couple, Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, this series answers the question, “What do you do when having it all is not enough?” by delving into their ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couple relations, under the surface, male escort, marriage, adultery, infidelity, family problems, couples, dysfunctional marriage, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.3
 724
Forbidden (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At his bachelor party, Jason has a one-night fling with Nikki, a radiant beauty with whom he forms an immediate bond. They agree to keep their secret locked away forever. Two years later, Jason, his wife, Andy and his fiancee plan a reunion weekend. ...
Style: erotic, sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot: adultery, threesome, cheating wife, infidelity, lovers reunited, one night stand, outdoor sex, sex in car, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, stripper ...
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 6.3
 610
The Other End (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional marriage, single woman, anonymous telephone call, lgbt, relationship problems, forbidden love, love interest, troubled marriage, love story, crumbling marriage ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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 7.3
 1K
Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
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 6.0
 13K
Intimacy (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, explicit sex, erotica, strong sexual content, cheating wife, couple relations, obsession, sex scene, sexual relations, infidelity, oral sex, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
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 5.5
 57K
Deep Water (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style: suspense, psychological, dark, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, cheating wife, sex scene, unfaithful wife, cuckold, dysfunctional marriage, oral sex, female masturbation, relationships, marriage, erotica ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 6.5
 3K
Happy, Happy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she "isn't particularly ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, sexual, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cuckold, gay husband, family problems, love affair, self discovery, love triangle, sexual relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional marriage, marital problem, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.0
 12K
Addicted (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: temptation, infidelity, obsession, attraction, cheating wife, fatal attraction, lust, unfaithful wife, unhappy marriage, marriage, sex addict, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.4
 42K
In the Bedroom (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved ...
Style: realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, revenge, grief, family drama, small town, jealousy, family relations, character study, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maine, detroit, new england
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 4.3
 4K
Zandalee (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, extramarital affair, trophy wife, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, nudity, erotica, tragic love, family problems, sexual attraction ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 5.6
 137
Changes (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, sex with brother in law, unfaithful boyfriend, adulterous husband, sexual tension, husband wife relationship, family relations, attempted seduction, seduction, relationship problems, mother and daughter, dysfunctional family ...
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A Snake of June (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, black and white ...
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, blackmail, power relations, couple relations, stalking, sexual relations, surrealism, erotica, sexual blackmail, pink film, porn, sex ...
Place: japan, europe, italy, asia, tokyo ...
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 7.6
 35K
Loveless (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening ...
Style: melancholic, bleak, psychological, heartbreaking, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: divorce, missing child, disappearance, dysfunctional family, search party, dysfunctional marriage, selfishness, anger, broken family, sex scene, parent child relationship, missing person ...
Time: year 2012, year 2017, 2010s, 90s, year 2015
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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The Girl from Monaco (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: cheating wife, lawyer, femme fatale, dysfunctional marriage, love triangle, adultery, older man younger woman relationship, nudity, wife leaves husband, trial, nothing goes right, legal ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: monaco, riviera, europe, french riviera, south of france
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Style: independent film, sensual, controversial, art house, postmodern ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, voyeurism, infidelity, adultery, voyeur, husband wife relationship, therapist, brother in law sister in law relationship, sex with brother in law, sexuality, impotence, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: travel, dog, grief, depression, dysfunctional marriage, loss of son, writers, dysfunctional family, death of son, loneliness, eccentricity, breakup ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: usa, paris france, maryland, london, baltimore
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The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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 3.8
 544
Blue Seduction (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A middle aged music composer finds himself trapped in the seductive web of a young, sexy vocalist who is looking for her own fifteen seconds of fame...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, musician's life, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, lifestyle, femme fatale, love and romance, drug abuse, addiction, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 238
The Forest (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Danila is sixteen. Katya is twice his age. He spends hours watching her from an old shed on the forest. He does not even think about trying to be with her until Danila's father shows up on Katya's doorstep in an attempt to run away from ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: older woman teenage boy relationship, mature woman, older woman younger man relationship, older woman teenage boy sex, age difference, extramarital affair, sexuality, villager, sexual abuse, nudity, obsessive love, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russia, Hungary, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from ...
Style: cerebral, thought provoking, experimental, postmodern
Plot: nazi occupation, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, husband wife relationship, adultery, world war one, art, dialogue, underdog, voice over narration, male pubic hair, surrealism ...
Place: utah
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Lady Chatterley (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, touching, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, lady, sensuality, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, passion, erection, female nudity, female pubic hair, dysfunctional marriage, class differences ...
Time: year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place: riviera, mediterranean sea, europe, france
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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The Lost Wife of Robert Durst (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Young and wide-eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes.
Style: thought provoking, serious, suspense
Plot: missing wife, jealous husband, domestic violence, murder, schizophrenia, disappearance, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, family business, marital problem, biopic, unsolved crime ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 6K
Band Aid (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
Style: sincere, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: marriage, drummer, dysfunctional marriage, relationship problems, bare butt, neighbor, love and romance, music, woman, couples, rock and roll, rock music ...
Time: year 2017
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