A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970

English

7.0

♡ 9

82%

Frank Perry Director

Alice Cooper as Alice Cooper

Frank Langella as George Prager

Peter Boyle as Man in Group Therapy Session

Alley Mills as Women's lib girl

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

The Rain People

1969

English

6.8

♡ 6

88%

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Robert Duvall as Gordon

James Caan as Jimmy Kilgannon

Alan Manson as Lou

Margaret Fairchild as Marion

When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

Downloading Nancy

2008

English

5.7

♡ 8

18%

Johan Renck Director

Rufus Sewell as Albert Stockwell

Amy Brenneman as Carol

Matthew Harrison as Golf Video Announcer

Maria Bello as Nancy Stockwell

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters.

Safe

1995

English

7.1

♡ 21

88%

Todd Haynes Director

Julianne Moore as Carol White

Kate McGregor-Stewart as Claire

K Callan as Mother

Dean Norris as Mover

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Life of the Party

2018

English

5.6

♡ 97

38%

Ben Falcone Director

Adria Arjona as Amanda

Sarah Baker as Gildred

Molly Gordon as Maddie

Julie Bowen as Marcie

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now Dee Rock – embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Savi

2024

Hindi

5.9

♡ 15

52%

Abhinay Deo Director

Anil Kapoor as J Paul

Harshvardhan Rane as Nakul Sachdev

Lee Nicholas Harris as Police sergeant keely

Atul Sharma as Prison Inmate

Savi, a simple housewife, attempts a daring jailbreak to get her husband out of one of England's high-security prisons consisting of 400 inmates, 75 armed guards, and 60 surveillance cameras.

Swallow

2019

English

6.5

♡ 67

87%

psychological thriller

sexual abuse

therapy

Thriller

Carlo Mirabella-Davis Director

Haley Bennett as Hunter Conrad

Elizabeth Marvel as Katherine Conrad

Olivia Perez as Nim

Austin Stowell as Richie

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

Serial Mom

1994

English

6.8

♡ 45

63%

John Waters Director

Matthew Lillard as Chip

Bess Armstrong as Eugene Sutphin's Nurse

Joan Rivers as Joan Rivers

Peter Bucossi as Rookie Cop

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

The Stepford Wives

2004

English

5.4

♡ 37

25%

Frank Oz Director

Matt Malloy as Herb Sunderson

Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart

Christopher Walken as Mike Wellington

Robert Stanton as Ted Van Sant

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

The Stepford Wives

1975

English

6.9

♡ 10

55%

65%

android

based on novel or book

Bryan Forbes Director

Tina Louise as Charmaine Wimpiris

Carol Eve Rossen as Dr. Fancher

Dee Wallace as Nettie the Maid

John Aprea as Young Cop

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

A Special Day

1977

Italian

8.1

♡ 27

100%

Ettore Scola Director

Sophia Loren as Antonietta Taberi

Françoise Berd as Concierge

John Vernon as Emanuele Taberi

Marcello Mastroianni as Gabriele

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.

Cougars Inc.

2011

English

4.9

♡ 6

K. Asher Levin Director

Sarah Hyland as Courtney

Denise Richards as Judy

Maeve Quinlan as Kitty Lowell

Kyle Gallner as Sam

When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.

Thelma & Louise

1991

English

7.6

♡ 87

87%

Ridley Scott Director

Harvey Keitel as Hal

Timothy Carhart as Harlan

Brad Pitt as J.D.

Susan Sarandon as Louise

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

Scary Mother

2017

Georgian

6.8

♡ 2

88%

Ana Urushadze Director

Ia Vakhania as

Lamzira Chkheidze as

Avtandil Makharadze as Jarji

Darejan Kharshiladze as Manana's mother

A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.

The Lunchbox

2013

Hindi

7.8

♡ 63

97%

mumbai (bombay), india

Romance

tiffin

Ritesh Batra Director

Nimrat Kaur as Ila

Lillete Dubey as Ila's Mother

Irrfan Khan as Saajan Fernandes

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Shaikh

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Brief Encounter

1945

English

8.0

♡ 33

94%

husband wife relationship

David Lean Director

Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey

Joyce Carey as Myrtle Bagot

Noel Coward as Train Station Announcer

Alfie Bass as Waiter at the Royal

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

1967

French

6.5

♡ 5

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Helena Bielicic as Girl in Bath

Marina Vlady as Juliette Jeanson

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Roger Montsoret as Robert Jeanson

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.