Failed marriage movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant failed marriage movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic, romantic, serious and touching films and TV shows about / with failed marriage, husband wife relationship, love and romance, couple relations, marriage, family relations, love affair, infidelity, marital problem and family problems plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as failed marriage: None Like Us (2018), The Door in the Floor (2004), The Woman Who Ran (2020), Paranoia (2011), Rifkin's Festival (2020), Intersection (2016), One-Trick Pony (1980), A Pain in the Ass (1973), Strangers Again (2023), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022).

List of failed marriage movies

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The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A divorced woman finds sexual liberation through online dating.
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere, sexy, hot
Plot: single mother, abusive husband, older woman younger man sex, sex scene, sexual desire, failed marriage, online dating, horniness, sexually frustrated woman, sexy woman, ambition, cheating wife ...
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 6.3
 237
None Like Us (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The imperfections of love and its bitter consequences in Turin, Italy, during the ‘80s, before the social networks and smartphones. What happens to your heart when you discover that you're madly in love with your best friend? What happens to ...
Style: uplifting, sexy, thought provoking, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, school teacher, teenage boy, love and romance, loveless marriage, high school life, new love, failed marriage, forbidden love, marital infidelity, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage ...
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The Door in the Floor (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East ...
Style: psychological, emotional, erotic, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: writers, older woman younger man relationship, writer's life, dysfunctional family, masturbation, infidelity, unfaithful wife, older woman younger man sex, literature, art, cheating wife, secrets ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yemen, France, United Arab Emirates, USA, Sweden, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Nojoom was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offered the family a small income and 'one less mouth to feed'. Nojoom discovers that her life will take a turn for the worse. Her husband is indifferent to her age. ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, touching, thought provoking
Plot: child bride, marital abuse, little girl, rape, sexualized violence, forced marriage, tradition, divorce, family honor, judge, escape, courtroom ...
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The Woman Who Ran (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 77 min.
Story: While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation, as always, but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
Style: thought provoking, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: female friendship, friends, chance meeting, business, secret past, married woman, life philosophy, husband wife relationship, past, meet cute, moral dilemma, male female relationship ...
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 5.7
 487
Paranoia (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A serial killer is terrorizing a small town. Mark Bishop (Brad Jones) has just killed an intruder who attacked him in his home. Only he's not sure if he killed the real serial killer, but knows he doesn't want the attention. Mark has to ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, unusual plot structure, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, hallucination, killing spree, psychopath, breakup, violence, prostitute, paranoia, murder, surrealism, robbery, failed marriage ...
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Rifkin's Festival (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, romantic, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: adultery, adulterous husband, troubled marriage, failed marriage, love and romance, love triangle, marital problem, crumbling marriage, romantic relationship, family relations, adulteress, marital infidelity ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain
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 6.6
 2K
Intersection (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min.
TV show
Story: Naz who is a paediatrician loses her baby during pregnancy. Even though her husband wants another baby, she refuses to go through the same thing all over again. She goes to Italy for a conference and meets Ali Nejat there.
Style: psychological, suspense, touching, captivating, sincere
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: friends, single father, friendship, passion, businessman, plan, car, youth, society, danger, racecar driver, failed marriage ...
Place: italy
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 6.0
 756
One-Trick Pony (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: rock music, failed marriage, talk show host, rock and roll, music business, artists and showbiz, hopes, aging, life is a bitch, introspection, music, ambition ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
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A Pain in the Ass (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
Style: dark comedy, funny, fast paced, neurotic, semi serious ...
Plot: hitman, killer, psychiatrist, assassination attempt, suicide attempt, twins, hotel room, failed marriage, lost love, runaway, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, south of france
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Strangers Again (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: It follows an ex-married couple who are both lawyers that specialize in divorce. They find themselves working together as colleagues dealing with cases related to divorce and relationships.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: divorce lawyer, relationship problems, divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, female lawyer, love affair, workplace, attorney, changing lives, lawyer, workplace situations, lifestyle change ...
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Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Switzerland
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very ...
Style: interesting
Plot: unhappy marriage, gay interest, male pubic hair, homosexuality, gay, gay crush, self delusion, loss of virginity, death, sexual tension, composer, lack of money ...
Time: 1870s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
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Goodbye, My Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Is it a perfect marriage or a perfect act? A woman's life starts to crumble when she starts to realize that her husband is having an affair. Power couple Zhang Yi and Zhang Xin are the envy of everyone in the field of architecture. After Zhang ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: infidelity, secret, marriage, male female relationship, family relations, family problems, marital infidelity, relationship problems, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
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 8.8
 265K
Succession (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2409 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Style: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wealth, family business, business, dysfunctional family, patriarchy, betrayal, father son relationship, dysfunctional relationship, ceo, family drama, rivalry, businessman ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 6.6
 158K
House of Gucci (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The true story of how Patrizia Reggiani plotted to kill her husband Maurizio Gucci, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fashion, fashion designer, fashion industry, high society, mistress, family feud, murder, greed, job, wealthy family, biopic, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 2020s, future, 70s ...
Place: italy, sicily, milan italy, new york, tuscany ...
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 6.0
 203K
Taken 3 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, fast paced, action packed ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: revenge, kidnapping, on the run, murder, one man army, hostage, chase, bodyguard, police investigation, framed for murder, runaway, frame up ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, europe, usa, malibu california ...
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Learning to Drive (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: driving lesson, love and romance, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, friendship, husband wife relationship, adultery, driving school, taxi, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: america, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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 7.8
 439
My Dear Exes (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently living with her 15-year-old daughter, Uta. Although Towako has been divorced thrice, she ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical, romantic comedy
Plot: ex husband ex wife relationship, ex husband, family relations, relationships, family problems, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, divorced woman, ex couple relations, marital problem, male female relationship, divorced man ...
Place: japan
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The V.I.P.s (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, clever, retro ...
Plot: airport, forbidden love, love triangle, multiple storylines, boss and employee, betrayal, couples, starlet, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance, journalism ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: england, london, europe
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Tree in the River (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Chu Zhi He who's a goodie two shoes and Wang Da Shu who has a personality that is rigid and sturdy like a tree learn to grow together as they fall in love. Like the show's namesake, animal behavior is quite representative of human nature. ...
Style: captivating, romantic, psychological, disturbing
Plot: love triangle, bachelor, relationships, relationship problems, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, love and romance, love affair, lifestyle, opposites attract ...
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Matrimonial Chaos (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Is marriage really the completion to love? This comedy drama begins with this question and defines the difference in thought between men and women about love, marriage and family.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, dorama
Plot: marital problem, marriage, relationship problems, male female relationship, troubled marriage, couple relations, love story, love affair, family relations, society, husband wife relationship, family problems ...
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 5.4
 9K
Lavender (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: amnesia, psychiatrist, empowerment, confusion, female protagonist, photograph, mental disorder, memory loss, murder, uncover truth, suspicion, danger ...
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For Better and Worse (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: wedding, failed marriage, woman, breeding, heterosexuality, horniness, groom, unfaithful husband, castle, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
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Everything is Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, captivating
Plot: christmas, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, marital problem, romantic relationship, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships ...
Place: frankfurt germany
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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style: art house, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot: architect, artist, art, cancer, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painter, painting, melancholy, insanity, tragedy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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Save the Tiger (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
Style: philosophical, existential, disturbing, poignant, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, jazz, aging, hidden treasure, business, mental disorder, fashion show, world war two, factory, arson, nudity ...
Place: beverly hills, pacific ocean, los angeles
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Tell It to the Bees (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the ...
Style: sad, psychological, thought provoking, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, lgbtq, female nudity, intolerance, emotional abuse ...
Time: 50s, year 1952, 1950s
Place: scotland
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I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A newlywed develops a strange lump on his neck that gives him the ability to transform people or objects at will. His wife is very upset. Meanwhile, the CEO of Smilecorp learns of this man and his ability and sees a way to achieve world domination ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: insanity, couples, surrealism, imaginary, supernatural ability, wish come true, creativity, dark hero, moral ambiguity, brutality, absurd humor, trippy ...
Time: year 1997
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 7.5
 104K
Blood Simple (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, independent film, tense ...
Audience: manly, date night
Plot: murder, private detective, murder mystery, extramarital affair, adultery, crime gone awry, twists and turns, hired killer, betrayal, investigation, moral ambiguity, gunfight ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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Desperate Housewives (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. ...
Style: witty, humorous, sexy, soap opera, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: housewife, female friendship, neighbor, suburban life, family life, social relations, investigation, lifestyle, friends, couple relations, family relations, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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