The Red Thread

2016

Spanish

5.5

♡ 4

Daniela Goggi Director

Eugenia Suárez as Abril

Hugo Silva as Bruno

Benjamín Vicuña as Manuel

Sergio Bermejo as Remisero

Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.

Life in a Metro

2007

Hindi

7.4

♡ 6

Anurag Basu Director

Dharmendra as Amol

Kay Kay Menon as Ranjeet Kapoor

Shilpa Shetty Kundra as Shikha R. Kapoor

Konkona Sen Sharma as Shruti Ghosh

A group of Mumbai up-and-comers search for love and struggle for success in this ensemble drama that centers on an eager young call centre executive.

Tuesday, After Christmas

2010

Romanian

6.9

♡ 7

74%

husband wife relationship

Romance

romanian new wave

Radu Muntean Director

Victor Rebengiuc as Nucu

Mimi Branescu as Paul Hanganu

Maria Popistasu as Raluca

Dana Dembinski Medeleanu as Ralusca's mother

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

Lulu on the Bridge

1998

English

6.2

♡ 6

Paul Auster Director

Jared Harris as Alvin Shine

Giancarlo Esposito as Black

Willem Dafoe as Dr. Van Horn

Gina Gershon as Hannah

This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

The Sheltering Sky

1990

English

6.7

♡ 14

45%

Bernardo Bertolucci Director

Timothy Spall as Eric Lyle

Paul Bowles as Narrator

John Malkovich as Port

Campbell Scott as Tunner

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

In a Wild Moment

1977

French

6.4

♡ 3

father daughter relationship

older man younger woman relationship

parent child relationship

Romance

summer vacation

Claude Berri Director

Peter Bonke as

Jacques Le Breton as

Les Caribes Steel Band as

Marc Racine as

Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents. Then, in a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and one thing leads to another: they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter. What will Pierre do?

Bad Seed

2000

English

5.3

♡ 8

Jon Bokenkamp Director

Mili Avital as Emily Tylk

Norman Reedus as Jonathan Casey

Andrew Wilson as Police Officer

Luke Wilson as Preston Tylk

Preston Tylk is an ordinary guy living in Seattle. When he discovers that his beloved wife, Emily, is having an affair, he is devastated. Storming out of the house, he returns later only to find her brutally murdered.

The Playroom

2012

English

5.3

♡ 3

52%

Julia Dyer Director

Molly Parker as Donna Cantwell

Alexandra Doke as Janie / younger daughter

John Hawkes as Martin Cantwell

Cody Linley as Ryan / Maggie's boyfriend

Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

The Burning Plain

2008

English

6.7

♡ 11

38%

mother daughter relationship

Guillermo Arriaga Director

Kim Basinger as Gina

Robin Tunney as Laura

Jennifer Lawrence as Mariana

Charlize Theron as Sylvia

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

The Bedroom Window

1987

English

6.4

♡ 17

72%

employer employee relationship

Curtis Hanson Director

Brad Greenquist as Carl Henderson

Elizabeth McGovern as Denise

Wallace Shawn as Henderson's Attorney

Leon Rippy as Seedy Bartender

Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.

The Debut

1977

Dutch

5.8

based on novel or book

Drama

extramarital affair

older man younger woman relationship

Nouchka van Brakel Director

Judith Hees as

Kitty Courbois as Anne / Carolien's mother

Wendy Ferwerda as Susan

Sandrien van Brakel as Tanja / Carolien's schoolmate

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Early Spring

1956

Japanese

7.7

♡ 17

100%

87%

Action

co-workers relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masami Taura as Kôichi Kitagawa

Fujio Suga as Tanabe

Eijirô Tôno as Tokichi Hattori

Keijirô Morozumi as Tsuji

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

And Justice for All

1979

English

7.4

♡ 57

Norman Jewison Director

Ed Heath as Arresting Officer

Al Pacino as Arthur Kirkland

Craig T. Nelson as Frank Bowers

Beverly Sanders as Sherry

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.

Humoresque

1946

English

7.3

♡ 10

57%

Jean Negulesco Director

Peggy Knudsen as Florence Boray

Kenneth Gibson as Party Guest

Ethelreda Leopold as Party Guest

Robert Blake as Paul Boray

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

The Black Room

1982

English

4.9

♡ 7

Norman Thaddeus Vane Director

Cassandra Gava as Bridget

Sheila Reid as Female Lover

Linnea Quigley as Milly

Christopher McDonald as Terry

An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.

Last Year at Marienbad

1961

French

7.6

♡ 24

93%

Alain Resnais Director

Delphine Seyrig as A - la femme brune

Françoise Bertin as Un personnage de l'hôtel

Gilles Quéant as Un personnage de l'hôtel

Giorgio Albertazzi as X - l'homme à l'accent italien

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

2006

Hindi

6.1

♡ 26

58%

Karan Johar Director

Ahsaas Channa as Arjun D. Saran

Shah Rukh Khan as Dev Saran Kajol

Kajol as Piano dancer

Abhishek Bachchan as Rishi Talwar

Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other.

Pale Moon

2014

Japanese

6.8

♡ 3

69%

1990s

based on novel or book

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Aimi Satsukawa as

Seiichi Tanabe as Masafumi Umezawa

Rie Miyazawa as Rika Umezawa

Yoshimasa Kondô as Yûji Inoue

Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?

Les Girls

1957

English

6.6

♡ 11

89%

George Cukor Director

Henry Daniell as Judge

Kay Kendall as Lady Sybil Wren

Leslie Phillips as Sir Gerald Wren

Nestor Paiva as Spanish Peasant

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.