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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Romanian
Description
In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress. A sharply observed, deeply felt drama from director Radu Muntean (Boogie), showcasing the strengths of current Romanian cinema in its beautifully calibrated performances, expert craftsmanship, and dazzling technical mastery.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
An elegant, moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man (Vincent Lindon) and his son's homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon's former wife), and their attempt to keep their desires from turning into a full-blown affair. A modern-day Brief Encounter, crafted with enormous grace and subtlety by acclaimed French director Stéphane Brizé (I am not here to be loved, Among adults).
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1907, newly-married Alice and her husband Herbert Blachè immigrated to the United States where they owned and operated their own studio plant, Solax, first located in Flushing, N.Y. and then in Fort Lee, N.J. (1910-1914). Madame Blachè, as she was then known, produced, wrote scripts and directed films; she also trained a stock company of players and technicians. Guy's preferred milieu was the domestic sphere where traditional gender roles function...
5) The lovers
Publisher
A24 Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary and Michael are a long married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. On the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
"Two fine performances anchor this half-funny, half-brutal story of a midlife marriage in crisis."--Newsday
"...buoyant and cheerfully flirty..."--TIME Magazine
"Just about every step of the way, the dialogue crackles and the performances...
8) Cloud 9
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Cloud 9 is the groundbreaking and lyrical story of a 67-year old married woman who rediscovers passion and her sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year old man. Cloud 9 won an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Director and Best Actress prizes at the 2009 German Film Awards.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's a chilling tale of love, trust, betrayal and revenge. Dr. Gemma Foster's charmed life explodes when she suspects her husband of an affair. As dark, deceitful secrets come to light, will she live a lie for the sake of her family and career? Or take revenge and reap the consequences? Brace yourself for the truth in this gripping psychological drama.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mina is tired of her husband's infidelity and decides to take a drastic decision: she takes a second husband. Based on his conversations with women involved in polygamist relationships, he illustrates - to very funny effects - the daily life of two persons - in this case two men - who share a spouse. On a comedic tone, Abdoulaye Dao tells us a story of jealousy, infidelity, romance and revenge.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Deep Blue Sea, Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force...
12) Silent light
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Silent light tells the story of Johan, a married man who against the laws of his faith and traditional beliefs, falls in love with another woman, thus facing an internal dilemma, whether to betray his wife, the woman he once loved and disrupt the apparent stability of the community or sacrifice his true love and future happiness. Sublimely shot, entirely on location in the Mexican Mennonite community near Chihuahua, silent Light opens with what is...
13) Gemma Bovery
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this cheeky literary mash-up of Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery and her husband move to the Norman village where the novel was written a century earlier.
14) Lady Macbeth
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
15) Madame Bovary
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
When she becomes bored by her life, a married woman tries to pursue excitement through a series of adulterous affairs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 292
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005, c1948
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A world-famous symphony conductor, consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair, entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works.
17) A fool there was
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The original "Vamp," Theda Bara stars as an exotic temptress who lures a once faithful man away from his wife. Only a handful of Bara's films survive today, but this is the drama for which she is best remembered. The film shocked audiences and brought something unexpected to the silent screen: an unrepentant woman with a voracious sexual appetite.
18) Intermezzo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Bergman, in her most famous role of the period, plays Anita Hoffman, an aspiring classical pianist who falls in love with a famed, but married, concert violinist. Their passionate affair has deep and unanticipated consequences for them both.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a weekend affair in the early aughts, lawyer Dan finds himself stalked by Alex, a woman who works in victim services. As her obsession escalates, Dan's wife, Beth realizes the problem needs to be taken care of, and 15 years later, Dan is being released from a prison sentence he served for a murder he didn't commit.
20) The soft skin
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
Français
Description
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
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