Highest-Rated Movies about 'Unhappy Marriage', Sort by Popularity

A Regular Woman (2019), Sand Storm (2016), L'économie du couple (2016), Vault of Horror (1973), The Return of the Native (1994), Common Places (2002), Bettie Page Reveals All (2011), A Royal Affair (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unhappy Marriage movies.

#16. True Lies (1994)

Storyline: Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life. At work he is a government agent with a license to do just about anything, while at home he pretends to be a dull computer salesman. He is on the trail of stolen nuclear weapons that are in the hands of fanatic terrorists when something more important comes up. Harry finds his wife is seeing another man (Bill Paxton) because she needs some adventure in her life. Harry decides to give it to her, juggling pursuit of terrorists on one hand and an adventure for his wife on the other while showing he can Tango all at once.

Plot Keywords: spy, wife, partner, terrorist, daughter, car dealer, wild ...

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#17. The Five Pennies (1959)

Storyline: Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>

Plot Keywords: jazz musician, wife, daughter, coworker, bandleader, spirited, touching ...

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#18. The Tarnished Angels (1957)

Storyline: In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.—Alfred Jingle

Plot Keywords: journalist, stunt pilot, wife, mechanic, son, showman, melodramatic ...

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#19. Strangers When We Meet (1960)

Storyline: The awarded architect Larry Coe lives a boring marriage with his wife Eve Coe and their two young sons in the suburb. Larry is designing and constructing an unique house to the successful writer Roger Altar (Ernie Kovacs) on the top of a hill. Margaret 'Maggie' Gault is a sexy blond sexually neglected by her husband Ken Gault that lives in the same neighborhood and they have a young son. When Larry meets Maggie at the bus stop of the school bus, he unsuccessfully hits on her. But soon they encounter each other again and they have a love affair. They fall in love with each other, but when their despicable neighbor Felix Anders discovers their affair, they have to decide between loyalty and respect to their families or love.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: architect, wife, lover, neighbor, author, melodramatic, brooding ...

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#20. Penny Serenade (1941)

Storyline: As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.—Snow Leopard

Plot Keywords: newspaper owner, wife, child, social worker, assistant, gripping, melodramatic ...

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#22. The Upturned Glass (1947)

Storyline: A prominent neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how, after the affair was over, the woman one day fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer--but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: surgeon, lover, murder victim, criminal, brooding, gripping, intense ...

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#23. Dragonwyck (1946)

Storyline: For Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter (Connie Marshall), to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

Plot Keywords: wealthy man, governess, rich girl, farmer, doctor, drug addict, suspenseful ...

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#26. They Were Sisters (1945)

Storyline: The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously plays through years of an unhappy and loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted on her by a domineering husband (James Mason).—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: sibling, abused wife, abusive husband, husband, wife, sith lord, disturbing ...

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#27. U Turn (1997)

Storyline: When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

Plot Keywords: racketeer, love interest, sexy woman, husband, murderer, engaging, gripping ...

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