Wealthy but arrogant writer Jean Hervey comes home one day to find that his wife, Gabrielle, has left him for another man. Realizing her mistake, Gabrielle returns, and the pair begin a merciless analysis of their marriage as the relationship comes undone.

Le Grand Amour

1969

French

7.5

Action

bourgeoisie

Comedy

dysfunctional marriage

Pierre Étaix Director

Annie Fratellini as Florence Girard

Alain Janey as Jacques

Micha Bayard as La secrétaire de Bourget

Pierre Étaix as Pierre

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming.

Golden Youth

2019

French

4.8

♡ 1

40%

1970s

bourgeoisie

Drama

husband wife relationship

nightclub

older/younger

paris, france

Eva Ionesco Director

Hugo Dillon as Alain Pacadis

Melvil Poupaud as Hubert / Lucille's husband

Isabelle Huppert as Lucile / Hubert's wife

Manal Issa as Razerka

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.

My American Uncle

1980

French

7.6

♡ 11

Alain Resnais Director

Catherine Serre as La secrétaire de la direction générale

Luc Bernard as L'homme

Gérard Depardieu as René Ragueneau

Marie Dubois as Thérèse Ragueneau

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

Rüzgarda Salinan Nilüfer

2016

Turkish

6.7

♡ 5

bourgeoisie

Drama

friendship between women

jealous of someone's success

Seren Yüce Director

Songül Öden as Handan / Wife

Tolga Tekin as Korhan / Husband

Taha Yusuf Tan as Poyraz / Sermin and Aykut's son

Serpil Göral as Sinem

Handan and Korhan a middle-aged couple who live their lives in one of istanbul's best neighborhoods. Handan constantly invents things for herself in order to fill her life. Handan, imitates her friend Sermin and starts writing! But this desire, which is innocent in the first place, will become jealous over time and diverge in different ways.

Sophie's Ways

1971

French

6.2

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

painting

Moshé Mizrahi Director

Bernadette Lafont as Céline

Micha Bayard as Juana - la bonne espagnole

Carl Studer as L'Américain

Virginie Thévenet as Stéphanie

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

Madame Bovary

1991

French

♡ 9

63%

60%

adultery

based on novel or book

Claude Chabrol Director

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as (as Louis de Lancquesaing)

Dominique Zardi as Blind Man

Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary

Christophe Malavoy as Rodolphe Boulanger

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

Le capitaine Fracasse

1961

French

6.1

♡ 2

17th century

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Pierre Gaspard-Huit Director

Gérard Barray as Duc de Vallombreuse

Riccardo Garrone as Lampourde

Jean Rochefort as Malartic

Christian Marin as Picard

A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.

Conversation Piece

1974

Italian

7.3

♡ 13

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Valentino Macchi as

Vittorio Fanfoni as

Burt Lancaster as Il Professore

Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

The Flower of Evil

2003

French

6.4

♡ 3

65%

Claude Chabrol Director

Nathalie Baye as Anne / Wife

Suzanne Flon as Aunt Line

Benoît Magimel as François / Gerard's son

Françoise Bertin as Thérèse

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

French

7.2

♡ 7

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Geneviève Cadix as

Sévérine Lerczinska as Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne

Michel Simon as Priape Boudu

Jean Gehret as Vigour

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.

Hibernatus

1969

French

6.6

♡ 9

59%

husband wife relationship

marriage proposal

Sci-Fi

Édouard Molinaro Director

Louis de Funès as Hubert de Tartas

Paul Bisciglia as Le prêtre moderne

Michael Lonsdale as Le professeur Édouard Loriebat

Carlo Nell as Un reporter

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.

Katzelmacher

1969

German

6.8

♡ 2

100%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Irm Hermann as Elisabeth

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Jorgos

Hanna Schygulla as Marie

Peter Moland as Peter

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.

Pierrot le fou

1965

French

7.4

♡ 38

88%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'

Anna Karina as Marianne Renoir

Samuel Fuller as Self

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Young Man in Movie Theatre

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Teorema

1968

Italian

7.0

♡ 27

83%

Pier Paolo Pasolini Director

Anne Wiazemsky as Odetta, the daughter

Massimo Girotti as Paolo, the father

Andrés José Cruz Soublette as Pietro, the son

Terence Stamp as The Visitor

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Baal

1970

German

6.3

♡ 2

80%

based on play or musical

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Baal

Irm Hermann as Hausfrau

Günther Kaufmann as Kutscher Orgauer

Hanna Schygulla as Luise

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an antiheroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

The Rules of the Game

1939

French

7.9

♡ 14

97%

Jean Renoir Director

Roland Toutain as André Jurieux

Odette Talazac as Madame Charlotte de la Plante

Marcel Dalio as Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest

Jean Renoir as Octave

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

The Quiet Maid

2023

Spanish

6.1

♡ 5

Miguel Faus Director

Ayoub El Hilali as Ahmed

Ariadna Gil as Andrea

Pol Hermoso as Jacobo

Luis Bermejo as Pedro

Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.

Squeak-squeak

1963

French

6.5

♡ 4

62%

Jean Girault Director

Christian Marin as Charles

Louis de Funès as Léonard Monestier

Mireille Darc as Patricia Monestier

Philippe Nicaud as Simon Guilbaud

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...