Movies and TV shows like The Affair

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The Affair (2014)
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The Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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 entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, erotic, gloomy, philosophical, bleak, grindhouse ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, sex scene, sexual relations, strong sexual content, writers, parents and children, family problems, life turned upside down, dishonesty, sex, love affair, haunted by the past, love and romance, court case, murder investigation, waitress, couples, nudity, relationships, forgiveness, female nudity, erotica ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york
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Most similar movies to The Affair

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films and TV series with plots about couples, infidelity, family problems, couple relations, husband wife relationship, adultery and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Affair: Betrayal (2013), Doctor Foster (2015), Satisfaction (2014), Mad Men (2007), Last Night (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Betrayal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Centers on Sara, a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, heartbreaking
Plot: love affair, cheating wife, infidelity, extramarital affair, betrayal, family problems, husband wife relationship, murder, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, couples, courtroom drama ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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92%
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Doctor Foster (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of inquiry far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: extramarital affair, adultery, female protagonist, infidelity, mature woman, life turned upside down, husband wife relationship, female doctor, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, family problems ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.7
 259K
Mad Men (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 4400 min.
TV show
Story: Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, stylized, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: advertising, workplace, career, boss and employee, family problems, office, businessman, womanizer, cigarette smoking, advertising agency, housewife, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
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: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: adultery, black, family problems, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, disorder, unfulfillment, human nature, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Last Night (2010)
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: melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, relationships, unfaithful husband, love and romance, old love, unfaithful wife, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 3K
The 7.39 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: After fighting for a seat on their morning commute, Sally and Carl begin talking and suddenly their daily train journey becomes a lot more interesting. Carl is happily married, Sally's engaged - where's the harm? Yet they find themselves ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, cheating wife, temptation, life turned upside down, love affair, married man, friendship, family relations, dull life, couples, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 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: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 283 min.
TV show
Story: Ten years of Marianne and Johan's relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married - unlike their friends Katarina and Peter ...
Style: psychological, dramatic, cerebral, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, couples, infidelity, dysfunctional family, relationships, crumbling marriage, loneliness, adultery, minimalism, retreat, modernism ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
She's Lost Control (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot: sexual relations, life turned upside down, prostitute, sex scene, women, sex, female protagonist, couples, society, sexuality, woman, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I'll Take Manhattan (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story: Maxi Amberville tries to save the magazine empire her father built, but her treacherous uncle stands in her way.
Style: serious, realistic, vintage
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, inheritance, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, family in crisis, lovers reunited, parents and children, family relations, betrayal, pregnancy, publishing house ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, england, usa, europe, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Faithless (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, contemplative ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Olive Kitteridge (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style: meditative, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town life, family problems, maturity, dysfunctional family, elderly, couple relations, couples, parents and children, family relations, psychology, complex characters, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Threesome (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story: David and Siri are a young couple living in London. During a night out, they meet Camille and a flirtatious game arises where the boundaries are gradually dissolved. In an act of drunken curiosity, they have a threesome.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: sexual relations, threesome, unfaithful girlfriend, swedish, interracial sex, sexual fantasy, couple relations, love triangle, unfaithfulness, male female relationship, infidelity, couples ...
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100%
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In Treatment (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while ...
Style: psychological, captivating, emotional, tense, clever ...
Plot: psychologist, therapist, introspection, doctors and patients, psychotherapy, psychotherapist, patient, emotional breakdown, psychology, self involved, power relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
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Webdultery (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
Style: sexy, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, couples, couple relations, extramarital affair, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, sexual relations, affair, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 8.7
 148K
Six Feet Under (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style: emotional, surreal, captivating, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: funeral home, gay, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, dark humor, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, depression, hopes, family drama, lgbt, self discovery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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This Girl's Life (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: porn star, porn actress, infidelity, investigation, lifestyle, life is a bitch, actor's life, human nature, family problems, starlet, showbiz, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Antares (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, psychological, anthology ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, male female relationship, female masturbation, exhibitionism, extramarital affair, nudity, sex, explicit sex, exhibitionist, female pubic hair, adultery, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6K
Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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100%
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Mistresses (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, touching, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, lesbian, love affair, lifestyle, infidelity, dishonesty, thirtysomething life, friendship, strong female presence, love and romance, desire, party ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
Return to Zero (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: stillbirth, couple relations, life turned upside down, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, drunkenness, infidelity, husband wife relationship, death of child, mourning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Client List (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Riley Parks delicately balances two starkly different lives -- one as a single mom in a conservative town struggling to provide for her family and the other as a savvy and ambitious businesswoman working with a rowdy, sexy and unpredictable group of ...
Style: sexy, serious, sentimental, touching, erotic ...
Plot: prostitute, sexy woman, sexual relations, massage parlor, parent child relationship, family relations, family problems, single parent, workplace, society, lifestyle, businesswoman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Dark Desire (2020)
Genre: 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, captivating, dark, semi serious, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: seduction, cheating wife, unhappy marriage, sex scene, love affair, love interest, murder, erotica, infidelity, adultery, love story, tragic romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fatal Attraction (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An affair threatens the lives of Dan Gallagher and his wife, Beth, in this deep-dive reimagining of the classic psychosexual thriller which explores fatal attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot: extramarital affair, marriage, relationship problems, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, couple relations, love interest, love affair, troubled marriage, family relations, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: dishonesty, betrayal, tragic hero, infidelity, tragic love, breakup, extramarital affair, couples, family problems, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The World of the Married (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Ji Sun Woo is a family medicine doctor. She is married to Lee Tae Oh and they have a son. She seems to have everything, including a successful career and a happy family, but she is betrayed by her husband and others. Meanwhile, Lee Tae Oh dreams of ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: adultery, extramarital affair, infidelity, betrayal, doctor, director, marriage, couple relations, family relations, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.7
 180
You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot: marriage, couples, relationships, divorce, family relations, bickering couple, love, marriage crisis, cheating wife, marital problem, male female relationship, affair ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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