Dead husband movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dead husband movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, captivating, tense, atmospheric and serious films and TV shows about / with dead husband, widow, murder, family relations, friendship, death, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, photograph and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dead husband: Scorned (1993), The Gateway (2018), Passion of Mind (2000), All Roads Lead to Rome (2015), Belle Epoque (1992), Forever (2014), Always Amore (2022), The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020), The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015), The Post (2017).
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List of dead husband movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
femme fatale, erotica, sexual relations, first sexual experience, dysfunctional family, lesbianism, female villain, seductress, sex scene, seduction, rough sex, passionate sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, parallel world, parallel universe, alternate universe, time portal, couple relations, discovery, lookalikes, portal, research, relationship problems, dead husband ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan who dreams equally vividly about Marie. The women look alike. Marie meets William who begins to court ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, sentimental, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dream, alternate reality, psychology, twists and turns, unfulfillment, single parent, mental illness, nervous breakdown, friendship, dead husband, mother daughter relationship, psychiatrist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future
Place:
new york, paris france, provence, france, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, USA, UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. ...
Style:
road movie, light, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, wedding ceremony, filling station, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, teenager, airplane trip, interrupted wedding, chase, old age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, tuscany, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Portugal, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to ...
Style:
sexy, rom com, eros, humorous, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
spanish civil war, love, lesbian, polyamory, libertine, dead husband, sensuality, marriage, seductive, farm, soldier, obsession ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1992
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid, rome italy
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66K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immortality, supernatural, investigation, friendship, law enforcement, immortal, crime scene, supernatural ability, secret, medical examiner, friends, deduction ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie centers around Elizabeth who, with the support of her mother-in-law Nonna, is doing everything she can to keep her late husband’s once acclaimed — but now struggling — Italian restaurant afloat. With business going downhill, she is ...
Style:
lighthearted, thrilling, captivating, romantic comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
italian restaurant, cooking, love story, love affair, restaurant owner, male female relationship, love and romance, restaurateur, relationships, restaurant, love interest, heartwarming ...
Place:
washington state, hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
Style:
mind bending, romantic, esoteric, funny, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
love, life, in love, love story, follow your dream, get rich quick scheme, following a dream, desire, miraculous event, widow, secret, single mother ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
nashville tennessee, alabama, new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style:
entertaining, sincere, captivating, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
foster home, foster child, birth mother, bully, social services, friendship, soul mate, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, social worker, name calling ...
Place:
maryland
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171K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style:
political thriller, inspirational, period piece, political, factual ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
journalism, truth, expose, whistleblower, newspaper office, newspaper, journalist, cover up, lie, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1965, 90s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
old west, shootout, wild west, gang, widow, treasure hunt, rivalry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, escapades, dishonesty, bank ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1870s
Place:
mexico, latin america, tucson arizona, texas, arizona
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, emotional, detective
Plot:
abusive husband, abusive relationship, murder, marital abuse, young mother, dead man, police arrest, husband wife relationship, teenage daughter, domestic violence, father dislikes daughter's boyfriend, physical abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual, cute ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gay, voyeur, fall in love, seduction, divorce, dating, blind date, love affair, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, somalia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style:
art house, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, depression, isolation, self pity, animal cruelty, suicide, guilt, female nudity, psychology, dialogue, insanity, nordic ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
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117K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Style:
thought provoking, political, touching, inspirational, period piece ...
Plot:
politics, prime minister, british prime minister, british history, female protagonist, female politician, monarchy, british politics, women, biopic, alzheimer's disease, political leader ...
Time:
20th century, year 2011, 2010s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
Plot:
interracial romance, native american white relationships, american indian, native american, indian tribe, indians, warrior, american civil war, native, interracial, nature, civil war ...
Time:
year 1994
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
charity, small town, women, leukemia, female nudity, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, food ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, los angeles ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The banker Vagif Fataliyev is found murdered in his own house. During the investigation, two more murders occur one after the other.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, dark, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder investigation, investigation, secrets, suspicion, police procedural, evidence, cat and mouse, conspiracy, betrayal, urban, corruption, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
azerbaijan
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
blackmail, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, actor's life, rivalry, desire for fame, power relations, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widow hosts a gathering for her high-society friends in an attempt to help solve her husband's murder.
Style:
suspense, captivating, surprise ending, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
widow, high society, murder mystery, halloween, revenge, murder, private detective, murder investigation, fight for justice, unpunished crime, party, society ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 60s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Style:
cerebral, suspense, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, husband wife relationship, doctor, old woman, flash forward, dead husband, friendship, aging, love, redemption, family relations, couple relations ...
Time:
near future, future, year 1979
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, costume drama, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
greek island, province, friendship, island, relationships, parents and children, family life, culture shock, expatriate, changing lives, family relations, widow ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pregnant Los Angeles widow journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family, but she quickly discovers they're a very strange--and homicidal--lot. Director Lamont Johnson's 1972 thriller stars ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, tense, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
snow, psychopath, mansion, wedding, sexploitation, macabre, family relations, mind game, pregnancy, estate, family problems, danger ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
minnesota, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Agatha Sayers best-selling novel becomes her worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted in a copycat scenario tangled with an obsessive assistant intent on stealing her identity.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, detective, surprise ending
Plot:
identity theft, writers, female writer, stolen identity, losing-it hero, child abduction, kidnapped daughter, assistant, wannabe, incompetent police, graffiti, dead husband ...
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Style:
suspense, horror comedy, funny, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
male nudity, sea, father son reunion, father son relationship, terror, criminal, secret, hardcore, violence, father son estrangement, life is a bitch, estranged father ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
oregon, thailand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Style:
suspense, period piece, emotional, tense, rough ...
Plot:
grief, horse, abusive husband, husband wife relationship, grandson, father in law daughter in law relationship, brutality, death, sheriff, retired, fight, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 20th century, year 1952, 60s
Place:
north dakota, montana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mali, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an elderly man reveals that his son Hammala (Modibo Traore) is the illegitimate son of a purported witch, the ugly side of social customs rears its head. Shunned by the community, an ashamed Hammala leaves the village, only to return four years ...
Plot:
animal abuse, oracle, arranged marriage, death, shame, ritual, love, old man, technology, old woman, dead husband, holy water ...
Place:
africa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, cult classic, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, satire, erotica, dark humor, male nudity, unrequited love, sexual attraction, older woman younger man sex, gay interest, widow, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
usa, beverly hills, new jersey, africa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits ...
Style:
serious, entertaining, cult classic, sincere, exciting ...
Plot:
politics, rebelliousness, sikh, murder, patriotism, courage, coming of age, society, state affairs, protest, patriot, corruption ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, new delhi, asia, london ...
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