Dysfunctional marriage movies and TV shows – page 4

List of dysfunctional marriage movies

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Nothing in Common (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
Style: weeping, talky, sentimental, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father son relationship, advertising, hospital, office, surgery, employer employee relationship, dysfunctional family, advertising executive, marital separation, amputation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, divorce ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.5
 13K
Pretty Baby (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prostitution, virginity, child prostitution, innocence lost, photographer, loss of virginity, girl man relationship, world war one, nymphet, brothel, nudity, child prostitute ...
Time: 1910s, victorian era, year 1978, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
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 6.5
 86
Lulu (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Henrik and his younger lover Lulu go on an intimate trip to France. Unexpectedly, Henrik's son David arrives.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, lgbt teen, unfaithful husband, gay son, family relations, lgbt, family problems, relationship problems, couples, relationships, eccentric family, older man younger woman relationship ...
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 5.4
 2K
Midnighters (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, cult classic ...
Plot: backwoods, dysfunctional marriage, murder, trap, accidental killing, moral dilemma, trapped, husband wife relationship, car accident, death, captive, dead man ...
Place: new england
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 6.7
 74K
The Gift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot: psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, psychic power, murder, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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 5.7
 19K
She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 42K
Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
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Sex, Lies and Death (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Viviana (Andrea Lopez) and Alicia (Martha Isabel Bolaños) have never met, but they're about to get intimately acquainted. One day, while tipping drinks back in a bar, the two women strike up a conversation that quickly turns personal, Viviana ...
Style: serious, sexy, suspense, tense, sensual ...
Plot: abusive husband, misogynist, dysfunctional marriage, lesbian, vengeance, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, battle of the sexes, anal rape, female nudity, unhappy marriage, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
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 5.7
 12K
Savage Grace (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of ...
Style: sexy, erotic, controversial, sexual, manga ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, impotent husband, sex, world war one, erotica, nudity, love triangle, master and servant, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, war injury, love ...
Time: year 1981, 1910s
Place: england, britain, france, europe
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 7.3
 391
Vecinos (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Vecinos is a Mexican TV series adapted in 2005 by actor Eugenio Derbez from Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. The series portrays the life of everyday people in Mexican barrios, where anything can be found — the jealous housewife, the ...
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, sincere
Plot: neighbor, pretense, friendship, husband wife relationship, housewife, friends who hate each other, dysfunctional marriage, adult virgin, neighborhood, laziness, friend, discussion ...
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Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Two love stories, sixty years apart, charting the challenges and huge change to gay lives with Michael and Thomas from WW2 to Adam and Steve to the present day.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay couple, love, gay sex, lgbtq, world war two, gay love, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: london
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 6.3
 226
Dirty Work (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Employees of a wealthy home look for a chance of revenge against the unfair way they are treated.
Style: feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous, satirical ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, greed, dysfunctional marriage, corrupt politician, whodunit, treason, mansion, mischievous children, coworker, humour, greedy man, money ...
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The Significant Other (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Directed by Joel Lamangan, “The Significant Other” follows the story of a rising fashion model (Erich Gonzales) who catches up and becomes BFFs with her catwalk idol (Lovi Poe). But all hell breaks lose when they realize that they are in love ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, ambition, husband wife relationship, femme fatale, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, love, mistress, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, class differences, friendship ...
Place: singapore
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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, fall in love, crumbling marriage, family problems, rise to the top, love and romance, social climbing, state affairs, revolution, ambition, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Trade Off (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, sexy, erotic drama ...
Plot: african american, seduction, adultery, sexual obsession, confession, love triangle, guilty conscience, dysfunctional marriage, selfishness, dysfunctional family, marital problem, marital crisis ...
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 6.1
 931
Trench Road (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Simply put, this is a movie about the identity crisis of a modern man.
Style: brutal, psychotronic, psychological thriller, neurotic
Plot: real estate, marital separation, dysfunctional marriage, blackmail, desperation, dark humor, marital problem, family relations, obsession, marriage, husband wife relationship, real estate agent ...
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Expecting Mercy (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A couple on the run find themselves dealing with the hidden cameras that have been installed at the bed-and-breakfast where they choose to hide out.
Style: psychosexual thriller, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending ...
Plot: hidden camera, pornographic video, voyeurism, dysfunctional marriage, rape, elopement, videotaped sex, peeping tom, lovers on the run, peeping, innkeeper, woman with a gun ...
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The Home Song Stories (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, intercultural ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: interracial marriage, mother's boyfriend, childhood, cultural difference, lifestyle, family problems, family relations, human nature, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: australia, asia, china, melbourne, hong kong
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The Train: Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed... (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Vishal Dixit leads an ordinary life with his wife and daughter but his once idyllic marriage is crumbling. When he meets a beautiful married woman en route to work on the train, it sparks a torrid adulterous affair. Vishal soon finds that an ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, murder, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, disorder, danger, life turned upside down, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
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Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: youth, siblings relations, prodigy, eccentric family, social satire, teenage life, suburban life, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, suburbs, teenager, family life ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia
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 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
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The Good Father (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, family relations, family problems, breakup, courtroom drama, legal action, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, divorce ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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 6.6
 76K
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
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: sexual abuse, obsession, couple relations, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa
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Love You to Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: 'Til Death Do Us Part was a legal drama television series that debuted on Court TV on March 19, 2007; not to be confused with the similarly named Fox sitcom 'Til Death. 'Til Death Do Us Part goes by the motto "To Love, Honor, ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, corny
Plot: murder, couples, unhappy marriage, dysfunctional marriage, marriage as hell, marriage, murder of husband, murder of wife, troubled marriage, investigation, true crime, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 3.9
 468
Raising Genius (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: genius, mathematics, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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The Next 365 Days (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.
Style: erotic, suspenseful, intense, sexy, emotional ...
Plot: cheating wife, female nudity, erotica, simulated cunilingus, threesome, sex scene, male full rear nudity, erotic dream, love triangle, sexual tension, bare breasts, cuckolded husband ...
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 8.7
 158K
This Is Us (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, thought provoking, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adoption, childhood memory, childhood, husband wife relationship, parenthood, father son relationship, depression, teenage angst, family relations, siblings, brother brother relationship, self esteem ...
Time: 90s, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, pittsburgh
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Whatever You Say (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, clever, semi serious ...
Plot: adultery, murder, disorder, social differences, dark humor, couples, rise to the top, couple relations, satire, husband wife relationship, suicide, accidental killing ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, europe
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