Movies like The Unfaithful Wife

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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Original name: La Femme infidèle
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ends with the husband bludgeoning the author to death and then calmly disposing of the evidence. When Hélène is questioned about Victor's murder, she discovers on her own that her husband is guilty. Instead of turning him in, Hélène is so thrilled that Charles cares so deeply about her that she is more in love with him than ever before.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical, neo noir, psychological thriller, anthology, cute, twisted ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, investigation, adultery, marriage, cheating wife, murder, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, love and romance, suburban life, couples, love affair, breakup, unsupportive spouse, private detective, private investigator, twists and turns, revenge, time travel ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
Keyword: oldies, french

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Most similar movies to The Unfaithful Wife

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and suspenseful films with plots about couples, infidelity, dishonesty, murder, adultery, love and romance and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Unfaithful Wife: Wedding in Blood (1973), Unfaithful (2002), Lantana (2001), The Weight of Water (2000), Tangled (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wedding in Blood (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is ...
Style: neo noir, slasher, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: affair, european, manipulation, wedding, dull life, disorder, couples, obsession, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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100%
 6.7
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Unfaithful (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, unfaithful wife, lust, sex, cheating wife, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, fatal attraction, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 7.2
 20K
Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Weight of Water (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tricky, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, infidelity, dangerous attraction, incest, women, amateur detective, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation, photograph ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place: maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3K
Tangled (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, missing person, obsession, investigation, love triangle, uncover truth, police investigation, psychopath, mysterious character, teenage life, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Flower of Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot: incest, haunted by the past, womanizer, murder, bourgeoisie, forbidden love, society, politics, family problems, parents and children, love and romance, campaign ...
Time: year 2003
Place: vichy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, blackmail, murder, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, adultery, husband wife relationship, greed, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.7
 5K
Lemming (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot: cuckold, infidelity, suicide, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, housewife, suburban life, estranged couple, murder ...
Place: south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 2K
Dirty Hands (1975)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, murder, betrayal, uncover truth, mind game, couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, crime gone awry, legal investigation, dishonesty, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, sexual ...
Plot: military, voyeurism, gay, marriage, infidelity, obsession, sex, soldier, couples, lgbt, solace, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 9K
The Butcher (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Style: suspenseful, cynical, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, women, small town, obsession, psychopath, killing, pig killer, scared, surrealism, misfit ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 2K
The Breach (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An innocent woman falls prey to the machinations of her abusive husband, his wealthy father, and a shady family friend.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: domestic violence, female nudity, child abuse, sexual abuse, time travel, cruelty, domestic abuse, family relations, intrigue, nudity, lsd, lesbianism ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stuck in a dull marriage, successful shrink Mia DuBois follows a patient's advice and exposes her wild side at a private underground club, where she meets a handsome stranger and begins an affair that may cost her more than just her husband.
Style: erotic, tense, sexy, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: extramarital affair, murder, infidelity, nightclub, manipulation, who done it, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction, mysterious character, femme fatale, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, investigation, who done it, couple relations, couples, family problems, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 2K
Betty (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: girl, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, strong female presence, performer's life, society, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, lifestyle, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Style: art house, serious, realistic, psychological, cynical ...
Plot: murder, dialogue, exodus, affair, time travel, guilt, forgiveness, middle class, woman strangled to death, dangerous attraction, unlikely criminals, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Intimate Strangers (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, philosophical ...
Plot: adultery, mistaken identity, obsession, marriage, fall in love, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty, rape, orgasm, crumbling marriage, impostor ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
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Final Analysis (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
Style: sexy, neo noir, serious, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: psychiatrist, extramarital affair, lust, doctor patient relationship, murder, gangster, femme fatale, sex scene, abusive husband, manipulation, lighthouse, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Table for One (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: erotica, home invasion, mind game, infidelity, murder, bigamy, couples, family problems, obsession, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: rape, couple relations, danger, couples, rape and revenge, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, nudity, impotent husband, cuckolded husband, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: zimbabwe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
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Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.9
 10K
Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear ...
Plot: voyeurism, female nudity, extramarital affair, obsession, infidelity, rape, rape victim, parallel universe, erotica, overdose, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, britain, austria, europe, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 298
Other Voices (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, independent film ...
Plot: couples, private detective, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, family problems, city life, breakup, stalking, couple relations, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 2K
Final Cut (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude (Jude Law) and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, cynical, clever ...
Plot: murder, friends, infidelity, dishonesty, violence, investigation, greed, woman peeing, danger, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, existentialism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.2
 42K
Bitter Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, bdsm, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, destructive relationship, couples, sexual perversion, passionate interest, dangerous attraction, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: eastern europe, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 6K
The Square (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, revenge, tragedy, extortion, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, disorder, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.9
 4K
Girlfriends (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, love triangle, menage a trois, bisexual, polyamory, gay, triad, swing, architecture, lesbianism, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, saint tropez, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 104K
Blood Simple (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, independent film, tense ...
Audience: manly, date night
Plot: murder, private detective, murder mystery, extramarital affair, adultery, crime gone awry, twists and turns, hired killer, betrayal, investigation, moral ambiguity, gunfight ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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