Dysfunctional couple movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dysfunctional couple movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, art house, humorous, serious, captivating and suspense films and TV shows about / with dysfunctional couple, husband wife relationship, couples, female nudity, infidelity, family relations, marriage, male nudity, adultery and extramarital affair plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, USA, West Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dysfunctional couple: Good Dick (2008), Graduation (2016), Sieranevada (2016), Jealousy (2013), In the Shadow of Women (2015), France Boutique (2003), Bed and Board (1970), Looking for Hortense (2012), Villa Amalia (2009), The Blue Room (2014).
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List of dysfunctional couple movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style:
indie film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, opposites attract, relationships, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, passionate love, passion ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding. Eliza has won a scholarship to ...
Style:
social, psychological, captivating, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father daughter relationship, graduation, infidelity, attorney, corruption, assault, ethical dilemma, motorcycle, family relations, police, marital separation, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
romania, transylvania, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting ...
Style:
suspense, humorous, unusual plot structure, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, family conflict, dysfunctional couple, bossy wife, three generations, humiliation, alzheimer's disease, infidelity, anti communist, underground, terrorist, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
love, love affair, love and romance, couples, family problems, hidden identity, couple relations, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, frustration, suicide attempt, single mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
Style:
sexy, captivating, disturbing, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
infidelity, unrequited love, male female relationship, bickering couple, dysfunctional couple, broken heart, filmmaker, relationships, romantic triangle, tragic love, love triangle, director ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a ...
Style:
light, captivating, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
popularity, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional couple, television, workplace, workplace situations, female nudity, shallowness, unfaithful husband, kleptomaniac, television producer, male nudity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, pregnancy, culture clash, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, relationships, dysfunctional couple, music teacher, marriage ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, immigrant, crumbling marriage, family problems, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, society, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hopes, cheating boyfriend, starting over, self discovery, redemption, musician's life, friendship, dysfunctional couple, male female relationship, deception, father daughter reunion, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, france, europe, brittany, naples italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder trial, murder, police interrogation, extramarital affair, couples, female nudity, infidelity, couple relations, sexual content, murder suspect, lawyer, interrogation ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brakes is an ensemble cast, improv-based dark comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couples relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, unusual plot structure, light ...
Plot:
couples, workplace romance, dysfunctional couple, homosexual, multiple storylines, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, actor, breakup, interracial couple, gay relationship, gay romance, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, britain, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.
Style:
sexy, romantic, rough, controversial, stylized ...
Plot:
loveless marriage, nightmare, lechery, world war one, horny wife, animal sex, single mother, cuckold husband, church, love, nurse, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1918, 20th century, year 2015
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA, Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a ...
Style:
dark comedy, funny, suspense, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lake, attempted rape, boat, life insurance, man in underwear, attic, dysfunctional family, assassination plot, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional couple, threat to kill ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This comedy takes its cue from such female-centered films as "Bridesmaids" and "Trainwreck." Pic centers on a woman who makes a living from breaking up couples and decides to take on the task of splitting up her sister's ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
male female relationship, breakup, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, relationships, female protagonist, couple relations, dysfunctional couple, love interest, couples, love story ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a ...
Style:
slasher, exciting, dark, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug dealer, wilderness, forest, drugged, innocent person killed, maniac, psychopath, serial killer, dysfunctional couple, abduction, space, fear ...
Place:
northern california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
Style:
depressing, suspense, captivating, rough, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, desperation, savage, couples, forest, isolation, grief, trauma, bereavement, depression, depressed woman, post traumatic stress ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A comedy that portrays a group of couples who have decided to move into a house together and share each other, which then leads to the notion of having a 'group marriage'.
Style:
sex comedy, ambiguous ending, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
polyamory, swinger couple, open relationship, gay couple, sex scene, group sex, exploitation, dysfunctional couple, lgbt, gay, marriage, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
8-year-old Vicky possesses a special gift: she has a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively – to the despair of her fire-fighter ...
Plot:
mountain, fire, dysfunctional marriage, dysfunctional couple, mother daughter relationship, lesbian, time travel, lesbian relationship, arson, interracial relations, gift, mother ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
alps
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. ...
Plot:
swimming pool, cat, falling from height, infidelity, hotel room, hotel, adultery, hospital, police, murder, murder suspect, shooting ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
Plot:
harassment, mother child separation, end of love, child abduction, missing child, stalker, moral dilemma, husband wife conflict, motherhood, pet dog, dysfunctional couple, mother son reunion ...
Time:
60s
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Style:
thought provoking, ironic, disturbing, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
lesbian interest, mountain, mother daughter relationship, small town, teacher, flirting, dysfunctional relationship, feminist, marriage, lgbt, women, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1975, year 1959, year 1966, year 1918
Place:
montana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with ...
Style:
anthology, touching, realistic, semi serious, feel good
Plot:
coming of age, voyeurism, childhood, female nudity, girl, summer vacation, boy, countryside, friendship, village life, church, bus driver ...
Time:
1950s, year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place:
brittany, france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Style:
art house, dread, philosophical, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
pharmacist, dysfunctional couple, depression, pregnancy, psychic, pharmacy, husband wife relationship, anxiety, mental breakdown, mental disorder, drunk, mental health ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
world war two, resistance, love triangle, world war, parachute, mother in law daughter in law relationship, unrequited love, father in law son in law relationship, unhappy wife, rural setting, german soldier, dysfunctional couple ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Style:
adult animation, animated comedy, parody, dark comedy, adult cartoon ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gross out humor, social satire, satire, elementary school, young kid, gay slur, young heroes, mischievous children, political humor, adult humor, dysfunctional society, social criticism ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, nova scotia, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 50 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:
cerebral, erotic, realistic, thought provoking, talky ...
Plot:
divorce, marriage, couples, infidelity, dysfunctional family, relationships, crazy love, crumbling marriage, adultery, loneliness, male nudity, affair ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, sex therapy, dream, countryside, family life, family relations, society, swinger couple, couples, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Deals with the phenomenon of sexual harassment in Egypt. Film depicts the moving story of three women Atfguen in some way or another to address the disturbing fact, the phenomenon can not be overlooked in the Egyptian and Arab street and the ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sexual harassment, self defense, injustice, rebellion, social decay, society, vigilantism, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, defiant, men hatred, women's rights ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt, persia, africa, middle east ...
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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, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the story slowly takes shape around a poor family that has a small car repair business. Times are hard and ...
Style:
political drama
Plot:
american football, biker, see through clothes, worker, working class, screenwriter, pregnancy, big business, death of husband, actor, actress, father in law ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
marseille
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