Marital separation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant marital separation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, melancholic, semi serious, talky, humorous and romantic films and TV shows about / with marital separation, husband wife relationship, couples, family relations, adultery, marriage, love, catastrophe, mentor and dialogue 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 marital separation: Maybe Baby (2000), Chaos Theory (2007), Along the Ridge (2006), Then She Found Me (2007), The Oranges (2011), Graduation (2016), Hope Gap (2019), The Accidental Tourist (1988), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Jealousy (2013).
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List of marital separation movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
pregnancy, infertility, marital reconciliation, writers, diary, writer's block, childless couple, marital separation, happy ending, couple relations, family relations, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, united kingdom, britain, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, touching, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
self discovery, betrayal by friend, nothing goes right, adultery, father daughter relationship, infidelity, chaos, breaking point, disorder, human nature, love triangle, fatherhood ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, jewish wedding, mother daughter conflict, jewish american, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, friends, life turned upside down, family life, disorder, age difference, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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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: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Cyprus
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, f word
Plot:
marriage, divorce, father son relationship, marital separation, family life, illicit affair, poetry, breakup, family relations, infidelity, love, tragic romance ...
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dog, dysfunctional marriage, depression, eccentricity, grief, travel, writers, loss of son, death of son, loneliness, dysfunctional family, breakup ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
usa, paris france, maryland, london, baltimore ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
depressing, sincere, talky, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female nudity, divorce, sex scene, marital separation, midlife crisis, breakup, voyeur, feminist, self discovery, betrayal, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Lori and Doug break up right before Lori's sister's wedding and decide to pretend they're still together for the weekend as to not disrupt the fun.
Style:
rom com, semi serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, wedding, breakup, family problems, relationships, posing as husband and wife, marital separation, family relations, sister sister relationship, breaking up with girlfriend, male female relationship, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
missing child, writers, lost child, missing person, missing girl, loss of daughter, supermarket, grief, school, british prime minister, marital separation, mental health ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jose Stern, an erstwhile indie-rocker relegated to playing children's birthday parties, is on the verge of turning 40 and at a crossroads in his life.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
musician, indie rock, musician's life, marital problem, husband wife relationship, relationships, marriage crisis, crumbling marriage, family problems, relationship problems, changing lives, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, clever
Plot:
friendship, buddies, group of friends, divorced woman, best friend, aging, couple relations, midlife crisis, elderly, marital separation, male female relationship, love ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new ...
Style:
sentimental, independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friendship, homosexual, dysfunctional marriage, male bonding, friendship between men, husband wife relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, immaturity, female bonding, marital reconciliation, fear of commitment ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Hard Hat Days Honky-Tonk Nights. John Travolta stars as a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Style:
melancholic, touching, realistic, romantic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
working class, rivalry, adultery, happy ending, love, country music, marital problem, suburban life, contests and competitions, cowboy, nightclub, contest ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
texas, houston texas, usa, north america, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Style:
humorous, tension, intense, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
air traffic controller, air traffic control, rivalry, workplace, stress, panic, marital reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, one night stand, blonde, marital separation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, long island, new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, psychological, cynical ...
Plot:
divorce, battle of the sexes, lawyer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, marriage, divorce lawyer, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, death, greed, married couple ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., harvard university
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style:
detective, neo noir, controversial, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, culture clash, vigilante, racism, murder, pig, chinawoman, gang war, tough cop ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
new york, china, southeast asia, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style:
light, clever, melancholic, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dysfunctional marriage, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship, adultery, infidelity, marriage, marital problem, marital reconciliation, yuppie ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, miami, orlando florida, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
playwright, writers, single father, stepfather stepson relationship, children, depression, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, theater, argument, marital separation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982, 70s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, israel
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thriller about an honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, who is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, mining, jupiter the planet, spacesuit, alien, space opera, outer space, attempted murder, tough guy, courage, marital separation, video surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1981, distant future
Place:
space western
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, clever, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
husband wife relationship, little girl, marital separation, emancipation, filmmaking, divorce, battle of the sexes, custody, dysfunctional family, hollywood, book, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, middle east, africa, egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and ...
Style:
talky, realistic, philosophical, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
marriage, infidelity, relationships, midlife crisis, divorce, loneliness, marital separation, depression, breakup, character study, friendship, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style:
feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, france, new jersey ...
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