L'économie du couple (2016), Le Grand Voyage (2004), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), La Notte (1961), L'Eclisse (1962), Ordinary People (1980), Husbands and Wives (1992), Interiors (1978) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Emotional Distance movies.
Storyline: Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Plot Keywords: marriage, divorce, family conflict, emotional turmoil, middle class, modern relationships, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A despotic man (Mohamed Majd) forces his teenage son (Nicolas Cazalé) to drive him across seven countries to visit Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Plot Keywords: road movie, father-son relationship, cultural clash, coming of age, french cinema, family drama, generation gap ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Hurst (Campbell Scott) is a mild-mannered dentist who shares a practice with his wife, Dana (Hope Davis). Concerned about Dana's recent sullen moods, David begins to suspect that she is cheating on him. As David becomes deeply unsettled by the possibility of Dana's infidelity, he begins having extended conversations with Slater (Denis Leary), a surly patient who dispenses plenty of blunt advice. Can Dana and David reconcile and save their marriage, or are they destined to separate?
Plot Keywords: drama, marriage, family, midlife crisis, infidelity, psychological drama, everyday life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his wife Lidia Pontano visits the place where she lived many years ago. In the night, they go to a night-club, and later to a party in the mansion of the tycoon Mr. Gherardini. Along the night, Giovanni flirts with Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of the host, and then he receives a proposal to work for him in the area of communication and write the history of his company. Meanwhile, Lidia flirts with the playboy Roberto.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, marital crisis, alienation, upper class, existentialism, black and white, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, french cinema, romance, alienation, existentialism, cold war era, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Plot Keywords: family, psychological trauma, depression, father-son relationship, mother-son relationship, grief, guilt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
Plot Keywords: marriage, relationships, divorce, infidelity, midlife crisis, love, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a very dysfunctional family and what happens when the parents divorce. Eve (Geraldine Page) and Arthur (EG Marshall) are a 60-something couple, recently separated. They have three adult daughters - Renata (Diane Keaton), Joey (Mary Beth Hurt) and Flyn (Kristin Griffith). Renata is a poet and is married to Frederick (Richard Jordan). Joey is (reluctantly) in advertising and is married to Mike (Sam Waterston). Flyn is a film and TV actress. Eve is an incredibly negative woman and this has had a toxic effect on her children. This results in stifling, unsupportive relationships and joyless lives.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, marriage, new york, sisters, artists ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, are in the 'seven year itch' of their marriage; they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of being an actress, and Frank hates his job. One day, April suggests they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, family, social pressure, midlife crisis, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: University professor Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and his lover, Bahar (Ebru Ceylan), are on vacation together when they break up. She returns to Istanbul by herself, and later, Isa resumes a relationship with a former lover. Upon hearing that she is in the East filming a TV project, Isa travels to that part of the country to track her down and perhaps mend the rift between them.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, relationships, midlife crisis, travel, loneliness ...
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: education, teacher-student relationship, marital crisis, repression, midlife crisis, self-redemption, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: marriage, family, love, betrayal, loyalty, relationship, trust ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Manager Michele lost his job but didn't tell his wife Eve, who was completing her art history PhD. Michele ponders whether to accept quickly a less lucrative job or hope for a better one. He opts to look for a higher paying job, in an attempt to retain their upper-middle class status and lifestyle, but is disappointed time and time again. Eventually, they are forced to sell their home and rent an apartment in a working class neighborhood. Meanwhile, she is forced to take two part-time jobs, and stop her volunteer work restoring a fresco. As the reality of their new working-class status emerges, they struggle to hold onto their sense of selves and their relationship.—EA Bianco
Plot Keywords: drama, family, marriage, unemployment, midlife crisis, italian cinema, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Plot Keywords: family, marriage, coming of age, betrayal, crisis, american west, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, urban life, alienation, youth, friendship, social critique ...
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