The Burning Bed (1984), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), To Joy (1949), Wildrose (1984), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), Beat (2000), Beautiful & Twisted (2015), Five Miles to Midnight (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Spousal Abuse movies.
Storyline: Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) suffers the abuse of her husband, Mickey (Paul Le Mat), for almost a decade because she cannot find any help. When a drunken Mickey rapes her and then passes out, Francine pours gasoline over him and lights it on fire. In the ensuing blaze, Mickey dies and the house burns down. During Francine's trial, she testifies about her years of suffering, and her attorney, Aryon Greydanus (Richard Masur), tries to have her declared temporarily insane and acquitted.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, attorney, daughter, son, mother-in-law, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.
Plot Keywords: housewife, elderly person, husband, career woman, friend, uplifting, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stig, a visiting soloist to a small Swedish orchestra, marries fellow musician Martha, but the inner torment and sense of failure in Stig leads to an extra-marital affair and a tragic ending.—Edward Terence Ferrari <e.t.ferrari@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, violinist, conductor, son, daughter, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shedding her abusive husband, June starts life anew by taking a job as a heavy-machinery operator in an otherwise all-male Minnesota iron mine.
Plot Keywords: miner, husband, colleague, coworker, boss, melodramatic, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the frontier of the American west. Shortly after being released from prison where he was serving a sentence for murder, Jay Grobart leads a band of three other men - Dawes, Billy Bowen and an Indian named Charlie Bent - in robbing a train of its Wells Fargo cargo of $100,000. In their escape from the scene, they are forced out of circumstance to take along a young woman, against her will, she who is traveling by herself on horseback. She is Mrs. Willard Crocker - Catherine - who they can tell is wealthy. Although they do not let her go, she vows that she will not tell the authorities about them as she, like them, is running away. As Jay, the leader, embarks on his next mission - to fulfill the reason he stole the money - he has the problems of managing the three men, Dawes and Billy in particular who are solely out for their own selfish wants which now includes their carnal wants with Catherine, and making sure Catherine does not escape. But as they spend more time together and learn more about what is under the surface, Jay and Catherine start to fall for each other. In addition to carrying out Jay's mission, they thus want to figure out a way to be together in light of their present circumstances. Meanwhile, Harvey Lapchance, the investigator for Wells Fargo, has a posse of men on their trail. That posse includes Willard Crocker, a mining executive. Lapchance allows Crocker to come along despite he having the feeling that he is not solely looking out for his wife's best interest.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, outlaw, widower, wife, child, bounty hunter, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation.
Plot Keywords: allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, writer, ex-convict, melodramatic, shocking, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: JAKE MORRISON (Christopher Dorrah)is a dedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist trained to help individuals cope with traumatic events in their lives. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake finds himself going down a road that he never imaged traveling. It's through intense and mind boggling sessions that he discovers a common trait that he and his psychotic patient unknowingly share. The NYPD's newest in-mate, LEIGH (Numa Perrier), is a woman scarred by a devastating childhood. She witnesses the brutal murder of her mother by the hands of the woman that raises her. VICTORIA(Vivienne Powell)is a ruthless drug lord that forces Leigh into living a life ruled by lies, betrayal, and murder. It's only when Leigh meets GREG (Bivas Biswas) that she begins to understand the true meaning of love, but it appears to be too late. When she realizes that her criminal life has robbed her of any chance of true happiness is when she goes into a fit of rage. It's only through elimination and confinement that she is finally able to escape from a tormented life. Meanwhile, Jake is so engrossed with his personal life that he has a difficult time separating fantasy from reality. He is at odds with his wife SARE (Tahiry Jose) and painfully struggles to mend the pieces together in his personal life and he will stop at nothing to regain what has been lost. Jake eventually finds himself forced to make an emotional decision that will change the course of his life forever. It's both the psychiatrist and patient's real life events that send them to a point of no return. This breath-taking story makes BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER a thriller that will leave you intrigued by the complicated relationships that we allow to dominate our lives.—Christopher Dorrah
Plot Keywords: american, strip club, florida, spousal abuse, love, 2000s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American (Anthony Perkins) plays dead after a plane crash and sends his wife (Sophia Loren) to claim his life insurance in Paris.
Plot Keywords: wife, businessman, journalist, love interest, socialite, dark, gripping ...
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