Mahler (1975), Barney's Version (2010), The Browning Version (1994), People, Places, Things (2015), The Way Back (2020), Charming Billy (1999), The Shiralee (1957), Learning to Drive (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Failed Marriage movies.
Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: composer, wife, schizophrenic, father, student, brooding, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Take a ride through the life and memories of Barney Panofsky, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer, as he reflects on his life's successes and (numerous) gaffes and failures as the final chapters of his own existence come sharply into focus.
Plot Keywords: grump, television producer, wife, ex-wife, father, son, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly twenty years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, teacher, lover, student, schoolboy, schoolteacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: PEOPLE PLACES THINGS tells the story of Will Henry (Jemaine Clement), a newly single graphic novelist father balancing single-parenting his young twin daughters, writers block, a classroom full students, all the while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Plot Keywords: love interest, daughter, comic book artist, student, father, ex-wife, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Back in high school, Jack Cunningham had everything going for him. A basketball phenom, he could have punched his ticket to college or even the pros, but, instead, he chose to walk away from the game, forfeiting his future. Jack's glory days are long gone...but, as it turns out, not forgotten. Years later, he gets the chance to take back his life when he is asked to coach the struggling basketball team at his alma mater. Jack reluctantly accepts, surprising no one more than himself, and as the boys start to come together as a team and win, he may get his last shot at redemption.—Warner Bros
Plot Keywords: basketball coach, basketball player, alcoholic, team member, inspiring, passionate, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billy Starkman is a seemingly ordinary man living in a small Midwestern town who one day wakes up, murders his family, climbs a rural water tower with a high-powered hunting rifle and begins shooting innocent people. Threading the terribly tragic with the maddeningly mundane, Charming Billy attempts to imagine what could possibly lead a man to commit the unimaginable.—Wm. R. Pace <wmrpace@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: father, grandfather, husband, wife, sniper, bleak, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, daughter, young girl, cheater, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wendy (Patricia Clarkson), a self-absorbed New York book critic, is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. Her instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) is a Sikh Indian who watches with alarm as his pupil falls apart at the seams. He himself is contemplating an arranged marriage with a woman he has never met. As these two lives intersect, both will change in unpredictable ways.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: book critic, instructor, driver, new yorker, daughter, bride-to-be, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man spends a few weeks housekeeping for a relatively distant relative and enjoys taking over the comfort of their lives in Santiago. Soon, he meets a cute neighbor and starts pretending for his personal benefit. Great story by Zambra adapted with the filmmakers team. Lightly cringe-worthy humor. The first third is reminiscent of Chacun Cherche son Chat (1996) by Cédric Klapisch, in the neighbourhood flick feeling and for allowing our intrusion into the midst of a quaint urban living corner. But it certainly is a movie in an of itself. Story wraps up well.—sergiolucero
Plot Keywords: man, single mother, child, airy, amusing, witty, chile ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A once-acclaimed New York playwright, NATE (Jemaine Clement), is struggling to finish his new play when his wife (Maria Dizzia) leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, BOB (Elliott Gould), in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Bob, always quick with a joke, uses humor to deal with all of life's challenges, even the death of his beloved wife. It drives Nate crazy. Thinking his son could benefit from some discipline, Bob sends Nate to work for ELLIS (Willie Carpenter) an older ex-Marine who runs operations at the community. While at work, Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical. Nate agrees to help but quickly realizes it won't be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate. And one of them, DEE (Annie Potts) even invites him to dinner to not-so-subtly set him up with her daughter, ALLISON (Ingrid Michaelson). Things reach a breaking point when a video of Nate's earlier play surfaces, opening old wounds between him and Bob. Ultimately, the father and son realize they each have their own forms of storytelling and come to appreciate their differences.—Spitting Cobra Films
Plot Keywords: playwright, father, eccentric, ex-marine, estranged wife, love interest, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The thirty and something years old psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Goodman has an incurable brain tumor that has just started to grow. Felling totally stressed, she decides to spend the weekend in her cottage with her husband, the writer David Goodman, and her sister Melody. She unexpectedly arrives in the cabin and finds a bottle of champagne in the refrigerator. Later, a young man, Adrian, asks for help due to the cold weather and once in the house, he shows a gun and brings his partner, the violent sexual offender and Samantha's former patient Harlan Pyne. Along the night, Harlan forces the family to participate in twisted games, where truths are disclosed.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, mental patient, husband, sister, writer, suspenseful, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Full of wry wit, Chronically Metropolitan, is a cynical family drama about a young writer, Fenton, who is forced home to help the family cope when his larger than life father, Christopher, gets into a car accident with a truck full of crabs.
Plot Keywords: novelist, young woman, sister, mother, drug dealer, best friend, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) has made a fortune through his gory action flicks, but his own capture at the hands of some thugs causes him to reexamine his role in violent productions. After escaping the crooks, he hides out with a group of gardeners, and eventually decides to drop out of Hollywood and stay with his new protectors. Meanwhile, government surveillance man Ray (Gabriel Byrne) uses a complex network of cameras to spy on Los Angeles, but he is disturbed by his superiors.
Plot Keywords: producer, wife, gardener, thug, boss, intricate, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Frenchwoman (Isabelle Huppert) loses an eye in Australia and becomes the lover of a blind man (Robert Menzies) who grows cactuses as a hobby.
Plot Keywords: frenchwoman, husband, blind man, friend, doctor, emotional, moving ...
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