Dangerous Liaisons (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Fox and His Friends (1975), The Favourite (2018), Phantom Thread (2017), Pity (2018), Read My Lips (2001), Harriet Craig (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Emotional Manipulation movies.
Storyline: Affairs strewn from Paris to the Alps disintegrate a couple's (Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau) marriage.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, french, literary adaptation, aristocracy, intrigue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. George being an associate History professor in a New Carthage university where Martha's father is the President adds an extra dimension to their relationship. Late one Saturday evening after a faculty mixer, Martha invites Nick and Honey, an ambitious young Biology professor new to the university and his mousy wife, over for a nightcap. As the evening progresses, Nick and Honey, plied with more alcohol, get caught up in George and Martha's games of needing to hurt each other and everyone around them. The ultimate abuse comes in the form of talk of George and Martha's unseen sixteen year old son, whose birthday is the following day.
Plot Keywords: alcoholism, emotional manipulation, social pressure, stage adaptation, black comedy, psychological drama, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,000. His life starts to look up and doesn't have to struggle financially. Fox can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He begins a new relationship with Eugen, creates a business partnership, and his life is looking bright. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.—Nathan Niessen
Plot Keywords: social critique, class conflict, exploitation, love story, tragedy, 1970s cinema, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, black comedy, period, british, power struggle, female-led ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants, and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, fashion, 1950s, british, control ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When his wife re-emerges from a long-lasting coma, a middle-aged lawyer concocts increasingly elaborate ways to try to regain what he misses most: the pity of others.
Plot Keywords: drama, black comedy, psychological drama, family, tragedy, social critique, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a maryam property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire. Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled, but Carla covers for him when the need arises because of his other qualities - he's a thief, fresh out of jail and very good-looking. It's a case of good meeting bad.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, french film, psychological, suspense, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Domineering Harriet Craig holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, marriage, manipulation, female lead, psychological drama, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. We see her attempts to make him leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for meetings or finally the booked journey to Florence. Then the movie is turned back to the beginning, and the view changes: We are now following the view of the doctor instead of Angeliques. And things look quite different now...
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, romance, mystery, crime, black comedy, french film, plot twist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.—Universal Pictures
Plot Keywords: documentary, deception, social media, identity fraud, family secrets, emotional manipulation, trust issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An art student (Audrey Tautou) reveals her dark side after a married cardiologist (Samuel Le Bihan) stands her up for a getaway trip.
Plot Keywords: romance, psychological thriller, french film, suspense, plot twist, obsession, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free.—Ipsith
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, marriage, psychological trauma, female perspective, recovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.—Marty Cassady <martyc@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, erotic, romance, mystery, drama, crime, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the celebration of the anniversary of Mrs. Taggart, her three dominated sons come to her house for the party. Terry, Henry and Tom Taggart work in construction, in a business that belonged to their father and is presently managed by their manipulative mother. Tom brings his pregnant fiancée Shirley Blair to tell his mother that they will marry each other; Terry brings his wife Karen Taggart and they secretly intend to emigrate to Canada; and Henry is gay and loves to wear women's underwear. During the night, the mean Mrs. Taggart uses the most despicable means and tricks to get rid off Shirley and Terry and keep her sons close to her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, black comedy, psychological thriller, family, drama, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ray Moody is a fledgling entrepreneur who is trying to get his company off the ground in Los Angeles. His business: the niche Kidnap Solutions, LLC, specializing in abductions that provide alternative therapy for his clients. When a mysterious caller contracts him for a weekend kidnapping, with a handsome payday at the end, Ray jumps at the opportunity. But the job and his target - business consultant Anna St. Blair - may not be all that they seem.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, thriller, kidnapping, dark humor, indie film, american movie ...
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