L'économie du couple (2016), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim (1977), Eyes Wide Open (2009), Possession (1981), Thérèse (1986), Mutual Appreciation (2005), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Emotional Turmoil movies.
Storyline: A British captain (Richard Burton) goes on a raid in World War II Libya with a major (Curt Jurgens) he knows his wife (Ruth Roman) has slept with.
Plot Keywords: war, drama, adventure, romance, psychological, military, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pierre, a successful engineer in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, midlife crisis, memories, emotional turmoil, marriage ...
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: Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy. Not long after she meets her eccentric and sexy neighbour, Suzy, who, by all counts appears to be a high class prostitute and encourages Juilet into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. A rare night when her husband is at home she wakes up to catch him talking to another woman on the phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" while sleeping, but when she questions him he lies his way out of it. She finds out who Gabriella is and fears her husband will leave her. Juliet begins having visions who accuse and terrorize her. The pinnacle of the visions comes at the end where it is implied she realizes she would be better off without her husband and is ultimately emotionally emancipated.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, surrealism, feminism, psychological drama, italian cinema, dreamlike, colorful ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess,com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british film, black and white, social class, ambition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jealous of best friend Kit, a critically acclaimed but financially unsuccessful author and playwright, Millie writes a novel, the first in a string of bestselling trashy novels. After eight years of neglect and taking a backseat to Millie's fame, her husband Preston leaves her. Another decade passes and Kit announces her intention of marrying the decade-younger Rudd. Millie thinks Preston wishes to reconcile, only to discover he is engaged. He also admits that he was in love with Kit, who had turned down his many advances. Feeling Kit to blame for the failure of her marriage, Millie flies into a rage and confronts Kit. Later, learning of Rudd's affection for Millie's daughter Diedre, Kit graciously steps aside to bless their union. In the end, Millie and Kit make up, sharing a champagne toast for each one's old acquaintance.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, 1940s, female lead, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley. On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their childhood, of eating a sandwich from club 21 and the meeting was just a pretext to Kyle's father Jasper Hadley. Mitch and Kyle immediately fall in love for Lucy, and Kyle unsuccessfully uses his money to impress Lucy; then he opens his heart and proposes Lucy. They get married and travel to Acapulco and the insecure Kyle stops drinking. Meanwhile, Kyle's sister Marylee is an easy woman and has a non-corresponded crush on Mitch that sees her as a sister. One year later, Kyle discovers that he has a problem and might be sterile and starts drinking again. The jealous Marylee poisons Kyle telling that his wife and Mitch are having a love affair. When Lucy finds that she is pregnant, Kyle believes that the baby belongs to Mitch and his mistrust leads to a tragedy.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, wealthy family, tragedy, desire, alcoholism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: love, drama, taboo, social pressure, family conflict, tradition, modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, french cinema, family conflict, father-son relationship, social issues, emotional turmoil ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tom Lee is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the "manly" pursuits of sports, mountain climbing and girls labels him "sister-boy" at the college he is attending. Head master Bill Reynold's wife Laura sees Tom's suffering at the hands of his school mates (and her husband), and tries to help him find himself.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, ethics, marriage, gender, social pressure, prejudice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, french film, extramarital affair, psychological drama, emotional turmoil, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the beginning of his second year at a prestigious Manhattan conservatory for high school students, introverted cellist Jeremy Jones (Robby Benson) lives a regimented life centered on honing his budding musical talent. But that all changes when the shy Jones meets freshman ballerina Susan Rollins (Glynnis O'Connor). Jones manages to build up the nerve to ask her out on a date, and -- in spite of parental pressures -- the two begin an innocent romance that will transform them both.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, drama, teenager, social isolation, psychological, character study, 1970s ...
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: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british literature adaptation, social class, italy, travel, female awakening ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the pre-WWII era. Peyton Place is a small town in New England, whose leading adult citizens rule the town with their high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their offspring. The adults, especially those that wield power largely through their positions and/or through their wealth, will not tolerate anything they believe morally improper, even if there is a hint of impropriety without comprehensive evidence to back up the hints. As their offspring grow from teenagers to adults, the offspring learn that there is much hypocrisy by the adults lying underneath that façade of proper Christian morals. The offspring begin to rebel in different ways, which is brought to public scrutiny with the arrival into town of an "outsider", the new young high school principal Michael Rossi, and through a murder trial.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, social issues, small town life, female perspective, coming of age ...
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