Highest-Rated Movies about 'Adultery'

The Earrings of Madame De ... (1953), The Unfaithful Wife (1968), Seduced and Abandoned (1964), A Woman of Affairs (1928), The Adultress (1953), Madame Bovary (1949), All Night Long (1962), No Down Payment (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Adultery movies.

#17. The Scarlet Letter (1995)

Storyline: In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers and other outsiders. Passion draws her to a young pastor. He feels the same; when they learn her husband has probably died at the hands of Indians, they consummate their love. A child is born, and on the day Hester is publicly humiliated and made to wear a scarlet letter, her husband appears after a year with Indians. Calling himself Chillingworth, he seeks revenge, searching out Hester's lover and stirring fears of witchcraft. Will his murderous plot succeed?

Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, literary adaptation, american, forbidden love, religion ...

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#18. The Scarlet Letter (1979)

Storyline: In 17th century Massachusetts, a young married woman, Hester Prynne (Meg Foster), whose older husband is in Europe, endures the scorn of her Puritan village when she commits adultery and bares a daughter. Forced to wear a large letter "A" on her dress, Hester refuses to identify her child's father. Hester's husband (Kevin Conway) secretly arrives in town and, learning of her disgrace, seeks to discover if the kindly but guilt-ridden minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, could be Hester's lover.

Plot Keywords: drama, historical, romance, literary adaptation, morality, taboo, sin ...

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#22. Day of Wrath (1943)

Storyline: In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne (Lisbeth Movin), whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon (Thorkild Roose) saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, historical, religious, moral dilemma, danish film, black and white ...

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