20 movies like The Happy Ending, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Gone to Earth(1950), Red Desert(1964), I Saw the Light(2015), A Summer Place(1959), Husband Material(2018), The Good Girls(1960), Bed and Board(1970), Snapshots(2018), My Foolish Heart(1949), They Were Sisters(1945) ...
Drama
USA
1969
112 Minutes
wife husband daughter maid hustler mistress brutal brooding uneasy denver bahamas failed romance marriage affair drug addiction alcoholism escape love fall 1960s
A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Drama
Italy|France
1964
116 Minutes
Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti Xenia Valderi Rita Renoir Aldo Grotti Valerio Bartoleschi Giuliano Missirini Lili Rheims Emanuela Mino Carboni
wife husband old friend businessman son maid bleak profound emotional striking italy beach factory apartment shack town mental illness isolation nervous breakdown infidelity
In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Drama
USA
1959
130 Minutes
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Sandra Dee Arthur Kennedy Troy Donahue Constance Ford Beulah Bondi Jack Richardson Martin Eric Peter Constanti Junius Matthews
wealthy man wife daughter old flame alcoholic son melodramatic passionate engaging maine hotel seaside family home pine island loveless marriage affair family secrets young love summer vacation unplanned pregnancy
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
Drama
France|Italy
1960
105 Minutes
Bernadette Lafont Lucile Saint-Simon Clotilde Joano Stéphane Audran Mario David Jean-Louis Maury Sacha Briquet Dinan
single woman woman saleswoman man love interest lover amusing cheeky engaging dreamy heartwarming lighthearted paris france relationships love work destiny saleswomen love interest
A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
Comedy, Drama
1970
97 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Mademoiselle Hiroko Barbara Laage Danièle Girard Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Daniel Boulanger
husband wife lover son brooding uneasy quirky apartment paris street marriage infidelity family love forbidden love 1970s
Francois Truffaut's tales of Antoine Doinel continue, as now-married Antoine has an affair with a Japanese woman.
Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Brett Dier Brooke Adams Piper Laurie Max Adler Emily Baldoni Shannon Collis Cathy DeBuono Emily Goss Christopher McVay Shana Sarin
matriarch daughter granddaughter husband grandmother love interest sultry emotional endearing moving touching house kitchen lake living room family love relationships friendship secret love
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
Drama
USA
1949
98 Minutes
Dana Andrews Susan Hayward Kent Smith Lois Wheeler Jessie Royce Landis Robert Keith Gigi Perreau Karin Booth Todd Karns Philip Pine Martha Mears
old friend wife alcoholic daughter old flame mother bleak melodramatic brooding new york city party house connecticut first love divorce world war ii loveless marriage mother/daughter relationship friendship sacrifice
After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.
Drama
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1955
95 Minutes
Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan Betsy Palmer John Ireland Lucy Marlow
business owner wife sister-in-law ex-lover cousin husband uneasy chilling dark georgia mansion unhappy marriage alcoholism engagement manipulation family self-destruction forbidden love rivalry fall
A young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, and soon finds herself sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.
Drama
USA|Sweden
1971
112 Minutes
Bibi Andersson Elliott Gould Max von Sydow Sheila Reid Steffan Hallerstram Maria Nolgard Barbro Hiort af Ornäs Åke Lindström Mimmi Wahlander Elsa Ebbesen
wife mother husband surgeon archaeologist lover emotional brooding sweden household adultery marriage romance culture clash boredom love discovery fall 1970s
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Drama
1953
92 Minutes
Harriet Andersson Åke Grönberg Anders Ek Gudrun Brost Hasse Ekman Annika Tretow
clown wife mistress ringmaster actor brooding emotional sad circus sweden pond infidelity marriage love triangle fall transformation love 1900s
A circus owner (Åke Grönberg) leaves his mistress (Harriet Andersson) for his wife, and an actor (Anders Ek) seduces the mistress.
Drama, Romance
2018
82 Minutes
Aure Atika Nicolas Bauwens Tommy Lee Baïk Ilian Bergala Pierre Cartonnet Marie Denarnaud Félix Maritaud
young man man gay man classmate concierge boyfriend intense brooding suspenseful melodramatic emotional profound hotel club school past homosexuality partnership first love trust
Drama
Sweden
1969
101 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Bibi Andersson Max von Sydow Erland Josephson Erik Hell Sigge Fürst
ex-husband widow husband wife bleak passionate emotional sweden island marriage infidelity deception grief romance animal cruelty love discovery mystery 1960s
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
Drama, Romance
India
2007
129 Minutes
Shiney Ahuja Anil Chaudhary Soha Ali Khan Rajat Kapoor Sushmita Mukherjee Sonya Jehan Vinay Pathak
author wife second wife actress director bleak brooding sad disheartening emotional moving india city mumbai movie set house bungalow stardom depression yearning for love
Circa 1960s Lucknow-based author Zafar Ali Naqvi, who has issues with his father and his four wives, including the 4th one who lusts after him, re-locates to Bombay, starts writing for ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1960
117 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Kim Novak Ernie Kovacs Barbara Rush Walter Matthau Virginia Bruce Kent Smith
architect wife lover neighbor author melodramatic brooding los angeles suburbia family home unhappy marriage suburban life affair family dysfunction alcohol rape forbidden love discovery 1960s
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Crime, Drama
Italy|France
1960
145 Minutes
Monica Vitti Gabriele Ferzetti Léa Massari Dominique Blanchar Lelio Luttazzi James Addams Esmeralda Ruspoli Dorothy De Poliolo Giovanni Petrucci Renato Pinciroli Giovanni Danesi
beautiful woman friend lover wealthy man brooding uneasy italy rome island seaside boat missing persons romance love triangle social standing boredom mystery love 1960s
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.