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Exploring the World of Divorce on Screen: Top Movies and TV Shows

Divorce is a universal experience that affects millions of people worldwide. The emotional turmoil, the struggle to cope, and the journey towards healing are all themes that have been explored in various movies and TV shows. From drama to comedy, these stories offer a unique perspective on the complexities of divorce and its impact on individuals and families. In this article, we'll delve into some of the best movies and TV shows related to divorce, highlighting their thought-provoking themes, memorable characters, and engaging storylines.

Cast

Kate Winslet

Jean Smart

Julianne Nicholson

Angourie Rice

Mare of Easttown (2021) TV Show

8.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

Style: tense

Plot: detective, drug abuse, pennsylvania, usa, small town, therapist, investigation, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Steve Carell

Ryan Gosling

Julianne Moore

Emma Stone

Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

7.3 9.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

Plot: friendship, soulmates, marriage crisis, midlife crisis, babysitter, womanizer, law school, los angeles, ...

Cast

Adam Levine

7.2 4.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.

Plot: new york city, cheating, divorcee, music recording, singer-songwriter, street musician, city life, recording session, ...

Mildred Pierce (2011) TV Show

7.0 267 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

Plot: based on novel or book, infidelity, restaurant, strong woman, business woman, respect, daughter, rags to riches, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Place: california

Wild (2014)

7.0 2.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Plot: hiking, wilderness, biography, based on true story, memory, based on memoir or autobiography, divorcee, told in flashback, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Kamal Haasan

Tabu

Amrish Puri

Om Puri

Chachi 420 (1997)

7.0 80 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: India

Duration: 165 min.

Story: In order to see his little girl more often, a divorcee disguises himself as an old lady and gets a job as his own daughter's caretaker. A Hindi remake of the 1996 Tamil film "Avvai Shanmugi," which is itself a remake of the Hollywood film "Mrs. Doubtfire."

Plot: nanny, sexual humor, rich woman poor man, landlord, divorcee, marketplace, dance director

Cast

Adam Sandler

Drew Barrymore

Kevin Nealon

Terry Crews

Blended (2014)

6.9 3.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

Plot: single parent, baseball, extreme sports, safari, blind date, romcom, wildlife, wild animal, ...

Place: south africa

Cast

Bing Crosby

Grace Kelly

Frank Sinatra

Celeste Holm

High Society (1956)

6.8 269 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: NR

Story: With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

Plot: jazz singer or musician, musical, rhode island, divorcee, screwball comedy, socialite, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, ex spouses, ...

Cast

Jodie Foster

Kristen Stewart

Forest Whitaker

Dwight Yoakam

Panic Room (2002)

6.8 5.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

Style: intense

Plot: new york city, hostage, bravery, ex husband, safe, burglary, psychological thriller, single mother, ...

Cast

Adam Sandler

Jennifer Aniston

Brooklyn Decker

Nicole Kidman

Just Go with It (2011)

6.7 6.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

Plot: friendship, assistant, plastic surgery, romcom, waterfall, falling in love, older man younger woman relationship, young woman, ...

Place: hawaii

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

6.6 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Plot: new york city, paris, france, heart attack, age difference, womanizer, playwright, dating, ...

The Exes (2011) TV Show

6.6 58 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Malaysia, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 64

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A sitcom about three divorced men sharing an apartment across the hall from their female divorce attorney, who is also their landlord.

Plot: roommates, landlord, divorcee, landlord tenant relationship, sitcom

Cast

Emily Blunt

Rebecca Ferguson

Haley Bennett

Luke Evans

The Girl on the Train (2016)

6.4 6.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

Plot: infidelity, new york city, amnesia, based on novel or book, obsession, homicide, blackout, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Russell Crowe

Caren Pistorius

Gabriel Bateman

Jimmi Simpson

Unhinged (2020)

6.4 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

Style: intense

Plot: psychopath, aggression, stalker, murder, arson, single mother, confrontation, divorced, ...

Cast

Robert De Niro

Morgan Freeman

Michael Douglas

Kevin Kline

Last Vegas (2013)

6.4 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.

Plot: new york city, new jersey, casino, drag queen, married couple, sarcasm, male friendship, grandfather, ...

Place: florida, california, las vegas

Cast

Stan Laurel

Oliver Hardy

Mae Busch

Billy Gilbert

Their First Mistake (1932)

6.4 60 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 21 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does. Unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as correspondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own.

Plot: adoption, bed, marriage, telephone, black and white, divorced, crying baby, short film

Cast

Michelle Monaghan

Skeet Ulrich

Finlay Wojtak-Hissong

Skylar Morgan Jones

Blood (2023)

6.4 251 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One night, the family dog senses something in the woods and runs off to find it. He returns a couple of days later and attacks Owen, savagely biting him before Jess is able to intervene. Owen is rushed to the hospital. His condition worsens, and no one can figure out why... until Jess discovers a disturbing cure...

Plot: country house, forest, hospital, dog, divorcee, recovering addict, sick child, child of divorce, ...

Cast

Jennifer Aniston

Julia Roberts

Kate Hudson

Jason Sudeikis

Mother's Day (2016)

6.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.

Plot: holiday, female friendship, remarriage, interracial marriage, relationship, single mother, divorcee, widower, ...

Cast

Adam Sandler

Kevin James

Michelle Monaghan

Peter Dinklage

Pixels (2015)

5.8 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: China, France

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Plot: new york city, london, england, usa president, washington dc, usa, video game, nerd, ...

Time: 1980s, world war

Cast

Helen Twelvetrees

Lilyan Tashman

Robert Ames

James Hall

Millie (1931)

5.3 22 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.

Plot: infidelity, unfaithful boyfriend, love affair, divorcee, pre-code, gold digger, elopement, party girl, ...