The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

The Cleaning Lady

2018

English

5.5

♡ 26

64%

Jon Knautz Director

Alexis Kendra as Alice

Stelio Savante as Michael

Waymond Lee as Parking Lot Patron

Rachel Alig as Shelly

In a bid to distract herself from an affair, a narcissistic woman befriends a cleaning lady with burn scars, but she soon discovers that the scars may be more than skin deep.

May Fools

1990

French

7.2

♡ 6

100%

Louis Malle Director

Miou-Miou as Camille

Harriet Walter as Lily

Michel Piccoli as Milou

Valérie Lemercier as Mrs. Boutelleau

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

Match Point

2005

English

7.6

♡ 128

77%

Woody Allen Director

Brian Cox as Alec Hewett

Alexander Armstrong as Mr. Townsend

Scarlett Johansson as Nola Rice

Matthew Goode as Tom Hewett

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.

In the Land of Women

2007

English

6.4

♡ 20

43%

Jon Kasdan Director

Adam Brody as Carter Webb

Ginnifer Goodwin as Janey

Kristen Stewart as Lucy Hardwicke

Aaron Ly as Police Sergeant

After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.

Demolition

2015

English

7.0

♡ 208

53%

Jean-Marc Vallée Director

C.J. Wilson as Carl

Jake Gyllenhaal as Davis

Naomi Watts as Karen

Chris Cooper as Phil

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

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.

Fire

1996

English

7.1

♡ 14

husband wife relationship

infidelity

lesbian relationship

Romance

Deepa Mehta Director

Alice Poon as Julie

Shabana Azmi as Radha

Nandita Das as Sita

Ram Gopal Bajaj as Swamiji

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.

We Don't Live Here Anymore

2004

English

6.2

♡ 4

65%

John Curran Director

Naomi Watts as Edith Evans

Peter Krause as Hank Evans

Mark Ruffalo as Jack Linden

Laura Dern as Terry Linden

Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.

Who's Yer Father?

2023

English

5.9

♡ 4

Jeremy Larter Director

Steve Lund as Glenn Misener

Jess Salgueiro as Junior

Matt Wells as Luke Thorne

Kaniehtiio Horn as Nicole Thorne

A small-town private investigator is hired to investigate the sale of black-market lobster in Prince Edward Island along with a scrappy convenience store owner.

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.

Revolutionary Road

2008

English

7.3

♡ 135

67%

71%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

career

Drama

husband wife relationship

infidelity

jealousy

Romance

Sam Mendes Director

Kate Winslet as April Wheeler

Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler

David Harbour as Shep Campbell

Max Baker as Vince Lathrop

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Factory Girl

2006

English

6.3

♡ 31

21%

George Hickenlooper Director

Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol

Hayden Christensen as Billy Quinn - Musician

Sally Kirkland as Grandma Sedgwick

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ingrid Superstar

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.

Drive My Car

2021

Japanese

♡ 80

97%

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Director

Shôichirô Tanigawa as

Ryo Iwase as (as Ryo Iwase)

Masaki Okada as Kôshi Takatsuki

Reika Kirishima as Oto Kafuku, Yûsuke's Wife

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

For a Woman

2013

French

6.6

♡ 1

90%

Diane Kurys Director

Nicolas Duvauchelle as Jean

Clotilde Hesme as Madeleine

Benoît Magimel as Michel

Clément Sibony as Sacha

After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived...

Heat Wave

1954

English

6.0

♡ 4

18%

Ken Hughes Director

Hillary Brooke as Carol Forrest

Peter Illing as Harry Stevens

Alan Wheatley as Inspector MacLennan

Aileen Lewis as Party Guest

Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.

Polyester

1981

English

7.0

♡ 21

93%

John Waters Director Divine

Divine as Francine Fishpaw

Jay Leno as Journalist on TV News

Susan Lowe as Mall Victim

Mink Stole as Sandra Sullivan

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

Sleeping Dogs Lie

2018

English

3.5

♡ 9

Konstantinos Kovas Director

Miguel Angel Caballero as Armando

Joanna Zanella as Luna

Garret Sato as Mr. Nakamura

Ted Ferguson as Mr. Robertson

A jealous wife kidnaps her cheating husband and his young secretary and holds them hostage in an isolated house in the desert; but divorce is the furthest thing from her mind.