Marital strife movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant marital strife movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic, melancholic, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with marital strife, husband wife relationship, family relations, infidelity, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, couples, marriage and slice of life plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as marital strife: Lemming (2005), Walking the Halls (2012), Life in Flight (2008), Force Majeure (2014), The Darkness (2016), The Queen's Sister (2005), Psycho Yoga Instructor (2020), Northern Borders (2013), Happy Ever Afters (2009), Pipe Dreams (1976).
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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, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, housewife, cuckolded husband, suburbs, infidelity, suicide, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, suburban life, estranged couple ...
Place:
south of france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
High school senior Casey finds herself seduced into the fast lifestyle of a call girl ring run by a campus police officer and must pull herself out before she loses all self-control. made for TV
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, threesome, marital strife, youth, self control, parents and children, corrupt officer, chance, lifestyle, social relations, teenage life, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Will is a rising star in New York City architecture, managing a tough project and negotiating to join an important firm. He rarely smiles. His wife Catherine is on the rise as well, as the social engine of his success. They have a son, about eight. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, romantic, captivating
Plot:
father son relationship, divorce, troubled marriage, marital strife, family relations, family problems, couples, introspection, parents and children, family life, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style:
dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot:
nordic, avalanche, cowardice, ski resort, marital strife, passive aggressive behavior, nervous breakdown, family vacation, family holiday, tourism, mountain, vacation gone wrong ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
Place:
alps, scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
Style:
spooky, suspense, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, animal attack, demon, supernatural horror, haunting, self sacrifice, ghost, supernatural, husband wife relationship, son, portal, marital strife ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, arizona
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, entertaining, period drama
Plot:
royal family, british royal family, royalty, rise and fall, against the rules, dishonesty, love and romance, state affairs, politics, head of state, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Justine Grace is desperate to sort out her life, her marriage to her husband Tom, and herself. When Domenic, a handsome yoga teacher, takes an interest in her, it seems like he might be the one to finally bring happiness to her life. However, he has ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic
Plot:
yoga instructor, husband wife relationship, mental illness, obsession, mind game, nightmare, marital strife, infidelity, manipulation, dangerous attraction, family in crisis, woman in danger ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
'Northern Borders' tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents' Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 ...
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot:
boy, childhood, child protagonist, family relations, bereavement, coming of age, old man, child with gun, marital strife, heist, youth, desertion ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
vermont
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two weddings collide when both receptions are held at one hotel.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, true love, social differences, nothing goes right, fall in love, society, opposites attract, love and romance, screwball, family relations, disorder, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pipe Dreams is a 1976 film starring soul singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. In this drama, her husband must choose between reuniting with her ...
Style:
romantic drama, tension, period piece, independent film
Plot:
domestic drama, marital strife, female protagonist, family drama, reconciliation, isolation, black, female empowerment, love triangle, husband wife relationship, money, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
James, a jobless husband, grapples with strained marriage as wife Sarah's career thrives. Left behind, he embarks on self-discovery journey, seeking purpose and worth amidst unfulfilled dreams and marital turmoil.
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, marital strife, personal growth, slice of life, intimate, midlife crisis, unemployment, identity crisis, bittersweet, male protagonist, resentment, reconciliation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, female protagonist, alcoholism, marital strife, character study, man-woman relation, family problems, social problems, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Growing up in a large, wealthy family, the three Yuan brothers never wanted for anything. Despite the three of them being only half brothers, the trio was incredibly close, their familial bonds undeniably strong. Whatever the brothers faced, they ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sentimental, suspense, bilingual
Plot:
gay relationship, lgbt, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, gay brother, brothers, family relations, family business, gay, gay couple, mother son relationship, brother brother conflict ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Melek and Kerim are betrothed at a young age by their fathers. Time passes and Kerim's family gets rich. Meanwhile Melek's family continues to struggle in life. Hülya, Melek's sister, is determined to run away from her poor life. She ...
Style:
captivating, melancholic, disturbing, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
young couple, bride and groom, men hatred, engagement, fiancee, family feud, marital argument, friends, childhood friend, old friend, family problems, brother ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suddenly he thinks her alone, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a gnawing disease. This woman whom he knows so little about and whom he would like to be with him. Right now, Just like before.
Style:
rough, captivating
Plot:
tragic love, violence, domestic violence, village life, jealousy, power relations, family problems, battered wife, jealous man, family tragedy, jealous husband, marital strife ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, secret, murder investigation, death of grandmother, death, dysfunctional family, guilt, confronting the past, female protagonist, family problems, getting home, family relations ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dante Kathlego is married to Alisha Kathlego. As a result of his poor health Dante loses his job. This causes some friction between husband and wife, but Alisha still decides to travel to Melbourne to promote Dantes new novel. Dantes health ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
infidelity, relationships, family drama, abandonment, tragedy, betrayal, trauma, love affair, couple relations, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
melbourne
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, erotic drama ...
Plot:
marital strife, sexual tension, loneliness, forbidden romance, class conflict, moral ambiguity, political unrest, alienation, family conflict, betrayal, identity crisis, nationalism ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
Style:
biting, melancholic, black and white, period piece
Plot:
marriage, working class, marital strife, political conflict, city life, domestic drama, blue collar, realism, labor, everyday life, gender roles, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A happy marriage turns sour when the husband becomes addicted to cocaine.
Style:
tense, bleak, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug addiction, cocaine, recovery, desperation, helplessness, marital strife, social realism, claustrophobia, urban, isolation, substance abuse, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 1985
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an ...
Style:
existential, cynical, bleak, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
character study, neighbor, resentment, marital strife, midlife crisis, domestic drama, alienation, routine, slice of life, awkwardness, sexual frustration, isolation ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Newly relocated to the suburbs, married assassins John and Jane Smith have re-established their respective businesses, though the marital issues that plagued them in the past have returned.
Style:
action comedy, thrilling, tension, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassin, double life, marriage, secret agent, marital strife, chemistry, spy thriller, espionage, undercover, deception, suburban life, explosions ...
Place:
prague
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Bridget & Eamon are the typical unhappily married 80s Irish couple. They live somewhere in the Midlands with their indeterminate number of children. Chain-smoking Bridget has notions. She wants the lifestyle from the pages of Woman's Way ...
Style:
sitcom, light, entertaining, ironic, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
husband wife relationship, eccentric family, absurd humor, brother sister relationship, relationships, prankster, couple relations, parents and children, lifestyle, marital strife, marriage, slice of life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. ...
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, hardship, marital problem, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, sacrifice, female protagonist, family drama, husband wife relationship, family life ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, slice of life, factory worker, factory, coworker, lifestyle, relationships, social issues, social problems, multiple storylines, worker, everyday life ...
Place:
northern england, manchester
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Sigh tells the story of an affair between a struggling Chinese screenwriter and his young female assistant, its effects on his marriage and the impact on the man himself.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
affair, mistress, writers, infidelity, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, writer's life, love affair, couples, love interest, intrigue ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a story about a really troubled man who is out of work, his marriage is falling apart, overbearing mother doesn't let him to live, his father recently died, etc...
Style:
tense, semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, vigilantism, social decay, life turned upside down, price of justice, injustice, rivalry, vengeance, society, character study, family conflict, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
police investigation, suicide attempt, murder, sexual abuse, relationships, problem, male female relationship, investigation, sleuth, murder investigation, crime investigation, character study ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A dramedy about relationships and fidelity, or the lack thereof. A group of old high school friends, now in their late thirties, get together for the weekend to celebrate the 4th of July, for better or for worse.
Style:
independent film, serious, captivating, exciting, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
relationships, infidelity, friendship, holiday, weekend, house, friends, old friend, high school friend, friend, couple relations, couples ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An unsuccessful journalist becomes a star after he writes an article about the memo of an unknown serial killer. But when he learns that the memo was just part of a novel, he decides to cover up everything.
Style:
humorous, satirical, disturbing, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, journalism, journalist, murder investigation, moral ambiguity, cover up, ethical dilemma, hidden identity, crime investigation, white lie, satire, mistaken identity ...
Place:
south korea
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