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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, psychological, teen, sentimental, independent film, black cinema
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
temptation, adultery, black, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, moral dilemma, couple relations, life turned upside down, obsession, love affair, disorder, human nature, dishonesty, unfulfillment, cheating wife, stalker, marriage counselor, husband wife relationship, young couple, extramarital affair, sex, dysfunctional marriage, tragedy, black cast ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
washington d.c., new orleans, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and sexy films with plots about infidelity, couples, couple relations, family problems, unfulfillment, dishonesty and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor: The Affair (2014), Three (2005), Addicted (2014), Not Easily Broken (2009), Missionary (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
infidelity, crumbling marriage, sex scene, adultery, sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, nudity, writers, sexual relations, strong sexual content, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant, Manuel.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
island, survival, desert island, cheating wife, romantic triangle, shipwreck, sex, romantic rivalry, love triangle, sex scene, sexual tension, lust ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
100%
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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, psycho sexual, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
temptation, infidelity, attraction, obsession, cheating wife, unhappy marriage, illicit affair, lust, unfaithful wife, marriage, horny wife, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationship vs career, hopes, couples, love and romance, family problems, ambition, crumbling marriage, infidelity, couple relations, black, christian, african american protagonist ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, stalking, obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, parents and children, single parent, couples, love triangle, forbidden love, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, crying ...
Plot:
family business, friendship, family relations, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, single mother, family life, working class, black, friends, couples, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
couples, black, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, sexual content, madea, nightclub singer, love ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film is about the difficulty of maintaining a solid relationship in modern times. Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, couple relations, black, introspection, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, human nature, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2007, 80s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, georgia, indiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
curse, all black cast, witchcraft, coming of age, dysfunctional family, african american, black, blaxploitation, deep south, american south, doctor, incest ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, new orleans, indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, stalking, obsession, danger, infidelity, couples, small town, husband wife relationship, suspicion, stalker, male female relationship, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
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, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, passion, bigamy, home invasion, murder, infidelity, mind game, couples, family problems, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A restaurant owner leads a double life.
Style:
sexy, erotic, independent film, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
sex addict, sexual humiliation, husband wife relationship, sexual relations, addiction, rough sex, interracial sex, erotica, sex, female orgasm, adultery, prostitute ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
making love, alcoholic mother, ku klux klan, sex scene, infidelity, neo nazism, family problems, family relations, psychopath, couples, crumbling marriage, obsession ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Married Alma spends a fateful weekend away from home that ignites passion, ends in tragedy and leads her to question the truth about those close to her.
Style:
erotic, dark, sensual, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love affair, seduction, cheating wife, unhappy marriage, sex scene, tragic romance, love interest, adultery, love story, doomed romance, infidelity, murder ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fatal attraction, obsession, stalker, stalking, woman in danger, couple relations, sex scene, psychopath, vengeance, danger, fear, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic ...
Plot:
love affair, adultery, female nudity, skinny dipping, love triangle, infidelity, starting over, fall in love, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, enigmatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
trial, sex scene, twists and turns, black cast, murder, black woman, court, crumbling relationship, depression, serial killer, murder mystery, accused of murder ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, love story, couples, losing-it hero, unfaithful wife, adultery, imagination, existentialism, loneliness, depression, art, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, best friend, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, danger, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, profanity, teenager, manipulation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, family comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, lovers, love and romance, unfaithful wife, sex, old love, marital infidelity, ex couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, philadelphia, new york, paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, sex addict, sexual relations, infidelity, obsession, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, family problems, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, life turned upside down, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, journalism, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, france, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
feminism, black, female protagonist, family problems, society, life is a bitch, hopes, crumbling marriage, rape, woman, black history, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
couple relations, love affair, infidelity, moral dilemma, crumbling marriage, dull life, love and romance, dishonesty, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee ...
Style:
semi serious, emotional, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, life turned upside down, hopes, dishonesty, couple relations, human spirit, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, breakup, estate, madea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, couple relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, unfulfillment, lifestyle, infidelity, remarry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas, usa
Similarity:
19%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
self discovery, life turned upside down, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, parents and children, breakup, mental breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
18%
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