Neerja (2016), Ju Dou (1990), Akaash Vani (2013), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Waitress (2007), Picture Bride (1994), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), The Hunting Party (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Abusive Marriage movies.
Storyline: Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Plot Keywords: young woman, mother, father, terrorist, passenger, gripping, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. This tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, nephew, illegitimate son, lover, dark, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vani tries to save her marriage in spite of going through marital rape and abuse, so that her parents are happy, but when she meets her ex-boyfriend, she gets the courage to leave her husband.
Plot Keywords: student, young man, young woman, lover, spirited, engaging, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1920's Chicago, Ruth Etting wants to be a renowned singer, which is a far step away from her current work as a taxi dancer. Upon walking into the dance hall and seeing her, Chicago gangster Marty Snyder immediately falls for Ruth, and works toward being her lover, which he believes he can achieve by opening up singing opportunities for her. Ruth is initially wary of Marty, but makes it clear that she is not interested in him in a romantic sense. Regardless, he does help her professionally, and through his opportunities, which are achieved through intimidation and fear, Ruth does quickly start to gain a name as a singer, which she is able to do because of her talent and despite Marty's intimidation tactics. However, the greater her success, the more reliant she becomes on him. This becomes an issue in their relationship as she believes he can take her only so far before he becomes a liability, however he will never let her go that easily. The one person who tried and tries to get Ruth away from her unhappy life with Marty is Johnny Alderman, the musical advisor Marty hired for Ruth at the first gig he got for her, and who also loves Ruth himself.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: singer, manager, musician, agent, emotional, fiery, nightclub ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?
Plot Keywords: waitress, doctor, coworker, husband, restaurant owner, patron, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age and Hawaii is not the paradise she expected. As Riyo comes to terms with her new home, she discovers a land full of hardship, struggle--and unexpected joy.—<raq@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, friend, boss, spokeswoman, engaging, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.
Plot Keywords: wife, abusive husband, mother, teacher, boyfriend, neighbor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder - just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn't know or care who's wife she is. He takes care of her well, and eventually Melissa falls in love with him. But Ruger feels humiliated. Full of hate, he sets out to kill him - and Melissa too, if necessary. Together with his friends and the newest technology in guns, which carry 800 yards, he initiates a battue on Calder and his gang.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: rancher, outlaw, wife, husband, beautiful woman, millionaire, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As renowned for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) is crafting yet another masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative process and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). As Stanley spars to maintain academic dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to dampen her own ambitions and adjust to married life while living under the roof of their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse prove elusive, Rose's curiosity and trusting nature make her tender prey for a brilliant author whose only allegiance is to her work.—Mae Moreno
Plot Keywords: academic, writer, author, newlywed, husband, wife, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called 'Winter Palace, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The 'Winter Palace,' soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.—AnonymusB
Plot Keywords: stranger, abused wife, nurse, wrongly accused, lawyer, son, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her.—Luis Carvacho <lcarvach@lascar.puc.cl>
Plot Keywords: plantation owner, voodoo queen, daughter, mother, englishman, melodramatic, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Madrid, Azu's husband Filipe is smug and boorish, but it's his money she slips to family members constantly in need of cash and that she uses to buy gifts for her lover, Pablo. Things start to fall apart when Pablo wants to leave her and when Filipe wants to evict Azu's cousin from a butcher shop he rents. Azu hatches a plan that relies on her sister, her cousin the butcher, and his mentally-challenged delivery man. When things start to go wrong, can Azu make them right?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: housewife, abusive husband, sister, cousin, messenger, lover, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Take a walk on the dark side with hired gun John Hardin. When Hardin's boss, powerful mobster Jack Rushton puts a contract out on his scheming and sexy wife Rena, Hardin confronts an assassin's worst fear-having to kill his own lover. Rena is counting on having Hardin kill her twin sister instead, but she didn't count on Hardin having a conscience. And when he refuses to murder an innocent woman, he finds himself trapped between lust and loyalty in a deadly game of blackmail, betrayal and brutality.—Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Plot Keywords: gangster, wife, twin, hit man, magician, shaman, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Behind closed doors, widely respected firefighter Lyle Wilder (Charles Sheen) is an abusive husband and father. When his family leaves him, Lyle goes off the rails and accuses his neighbors of driving his wife and son away. He begins tormenting them and, as his murderous rampage escalates, he violently kills a repairman. But, because of Lyle's do-gooder reputation, the police refuse to believe his neighbors' accusations, which forces them to take matters into their own hands.
Plot Keywords: firefighter, murderer, father, mother, repairman, neighbor, disturbing ...
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