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Series
Criterion collection volume 749
Publisher
Carousse
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
43) Couples retreat
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Following failed attempts to conceive, Jason and Cynthia are contemplating divorce. In an effort to save their marriage, they book a vacation to a couples therapy retreat, called Eden. To save money they encourage their friends to join them, claiming that their friends can enjoy the party activities and not take part in the therapy. Reluctantly their friends, Dave and Ronnie, Joey and Lucy, and recently divorced Shane and his girlfriend Trudy agree....
44) The other woman
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
After discovering her boyfriend is married, a woman tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the wife he's been cheating on, she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on their cheating, lying, three-timing SOB.
45) Eve's bayou
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle, a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding...
46) In secret
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed, beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. After she meets her husband's alluring friend Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Icelandic
Description
In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
49) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Professional chef Leo has everything he ever wanted: a prosperous hotel business, a beautiful family, and an amiable relationship with his ex-wife, Gina, to whom he owes much of his success. But when Leo₂s glamorous wife, Sam, starts to suspect that he is having an affair, she asks Gina for advice, since Gina was cheated on by Leo with Sam and would recognize the signs. But none of them could anticipate the disastrous chain of events that follows....
51) Pierrot le fou
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
52) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
53) The cakemaker
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
עברית
Description
Thomas, a young German baker, has an affair with Oren, a married Israeli man. After Oren unexpectedly dies in a car crash, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers about his death. Under a fake identity, Thomas enters the life of Anat, his lover's newly widowed wife. There, he begins to work for Anat, baking pastries that bring her cafe to vibrant life. Thomas becomes deeply involved in her life beyond his own expectation and stretches the lie...
54) Mental
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect and shifting between the perspectives of Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole, the story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
A passionate and bold novella with a modern take on forbidden love. In the glamorous yet superficial world of fashion, an impossible love develops between Victoria, a woman of high society, and Jose Angel, her bodyguard. Married to others, their love is forbidden, but too strong to ignore.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
City of fear: A convict steals a container from the prison infirmary, thinking it contains cocaine, and escapes, intending to sell the drug for a fortune. However, the powder is really a highly radioactive substance that will kill everyone who is exposed to it.
Human desire: A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion,...
60) The ice storm
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"The story of two disfunctional families who learn to cope with nature-- human nature-- in this emotionally charged tale of suburban life in the '70s. When a self-centered husband's relationships with his wife and mistress grow cold, it takes a wife-swapping 'key party' and a freak ice storm to clear the air-- and change their lives forever."--Container.
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