Unhappy Marriage Movies, Movies about Unhappy Marriage

Here we've displayed a list of the best Unhappy Marriage films : The Return of the Native(1994), Common Places(2002), A Royal Affair(2012), Distant Voices, Still Lives(1988), The Merchant of Four Seasons(1971), This Boy's Life(1993), The Five Pennies(1959), True Lies(1994), Fracture(2007), Penny Serenade(1941), The Tarnished Angels(1957), Strangers When We Meet(1960) ... ...

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The Return of the Native

Every year, they come by the thousands. Soldiers, sailors, civilians and students. Veterans of wars gone by and guests from foreign shores. They come to march. They come to sacrifice. They ... See full summary »

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Common Places

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired ... See full summary »

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A Royal Affair

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

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Distant Voices, Still Lives

The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.

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The Merchant of Four Seasons

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

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This Boy's Life

The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.

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The Five Pennies

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ... See full summary »

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True Lies

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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Fracture

An attorney intending on climbing the career ladder toward success finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.

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Penny Serenade

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

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The Tarnished Angels

Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

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Strangers When We Meet

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.

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Court Martial

A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.

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The Upturned Glass

A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.

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Cinderella Liberty

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty, due to his service records being lost.

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They Were Sisters

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 »

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The Bachelor Party

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential ... See full summary »

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The Square

A man's life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.

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Queen Bee

A young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, and soon finds herself sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.

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Only Two Can Play

John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and ... See full summary »

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Ten Cents a Dance

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.

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The Bottom of the Bottle

In the border town of Nogales, Arizona, a wealthy attorney and rancher is solicited by his escaped convict brother in aiding him to cross the border into Mexico where his wife and children are living in poverty.

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The Battle of the Sexes

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie ... See full summary »

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Pretexts

The couple from Vienna, a theater director, and Daniel, a nursing home doctor, are going through a crisis. They love each other, but they can't stand each other. Both cling to their ... See full summary »

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My One and Only

After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.

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The Woman on the Beach

A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

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Raintree County

A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the on-set of the Civil War.

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Metroland

The sudden reappearance of his best friend Toni, after a ten year absence, causes Chris to remember his past, to question some of his lifestyle decisions and to re-evaluate his life and marriage to Marion.

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Escapade

This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on... See full summary »

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Forever Darling

Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be ... See full summary »

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