🏷 Discover The Best Marital Crisis Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncover the Turbulent World of Marital Crisis in Cinema

Marital crisis is a universal theme that transcends cultures and time. It's a complex issue that has been explored in various forms of media, including movies and TV shows. From intense dramas to thought-provoking comedies, these stories offer a glimpse into the intricacies of relationships and the human experience. In this article, we'll delve into the best movies and TV shows that tackle the theme of marital crisis, providing you with a comprehensive guide to explore the depths of love, heartbreak, and redemption.

Cast

Christian Borle

Stephanie J. Block

Andrew Rannells

Brandon Uranowitz

Falsettos (2017)

8.2 32 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Jewish family man Marvin leaves his wife and son for a male lover during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City.

Plot: new york city, marriage proposal, chess, aids, marriage crisis, arranged marriage, jewish life, bar mitzvah, ...

Cast

Maggie Cheung

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Siu Ping-Lam

Rebecca Pan

In the Mood for Love (2000)

8.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Hong Kong, France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Plot: adultery, newspaper, secret love, martial arts, lovesickness, husband wife relationship, shanghai, china, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: singapore, hong kong

Cast

F. Murray Abraham

Tom Hulce

Elizabeth Berridge

Simon Callow

Amadeus (1984)

8.0 4.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 160 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Plot: opera, composer, musician, marriage crisis, talent, emperor, based on true story, based on play or musical, ...

Time: 18th century

Place: italy, austria

Cast

Bruce Willis

Haley Joel Osment

Toni Collette

Olivia Williams

The Sixth Sense (1999)

8.0 13.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: dying and death, child abuse, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sense of guilt, afterlife, marriage crisis, loss of loved one, ...

Cast

Vivien Leigh

Clark Gable

Olivia de Havilland

Leslie Howard

Gone with the Wind (1939)

7.9 4.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 233 min.

Audience: G

Story: The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Plot: civil war, based on novel or book, marriage crisis, loss of loved one, widow, slavery, plantation, typhus, ...

Time: 1860s, 1870s

Place: atlanta

Cast

Ben Affleck

Rosamund Pike

Neil Patrick Harris

Tyler Perry

Gone Girl (2014)

7.9 20.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: R

Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Style: cynical

Plot: infidelity, based on novel or book, wife, marriage crisis, investigation, disappearance, psychological thriller, whodunit, ...

Cast

George O'Brien

Janet Gaynor

Margaret Livingston

Bodil Rosing

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

7.8 909 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Plot: adultery, lake, love triangle, pig, marriage crisis, country life, indian summer, redemption, ...

Cast

Heath Ledger

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michelle Williams

Anne Hathaway

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

7.8 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Plot: secret love, wyoming, usa, countryside, homophobia, marriage crisis, intolerance, in the closet, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

George Segal

Sandy Dennis

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

7.7 923 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Style: provocative

Plot: adultery, professor, married couple, guest, black humor, based on play or musical, campus, dysfunctional marriage, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Michelle Williams

Paul Dano

Seth Rogen

Gabriel LaBelle

The Fabelmans (2022)

7.6 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Plot: high school, husband wife relationship, arizona, bullying, family relationships, coming of age, teenage boy, filmmaking, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Sydney Pollack

Marie Richardson

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

7.5 7.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: R

Story: After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, prostitute, based on novel or book, sexual obsession, sacrifice, christmas party, eroticism, orgy, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Meryl Streep

Chris Cooper

Tilda Swinton

Adaptation. (2002)

7.3 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

Style: cynical, philosophical, satirical, absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, marriage crisis, alligator, writer's block, orchid, writer, twins, reflective, ...

Cast

Isabelle Adjani

Sam Neill

Margit Carstensen

Heinz Bennent

Possession (1981)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Plot: adultery, berlin, germany, monster, police, marriage crisis, berlin wall, obsession, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Sonu Sood

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

7.3 285 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 213 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Plot: husband wife relationship, marriage crisis, emperor, hindu, biography, sword fight, period drama, domineering mother, ...

Time: 16th century

Cast

Bernard Verley

Zouzou

Franu00e7oise Verley

Daniel Ceccaldi

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

7.3 218 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Style: philosophical, intimate, romantic

Plot: infidelity, marriage crisis, man between two women, womanizer

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

Bruce Willis

Samuel L. Jackson

Robin Wright

Spencer Treat Clark

Unbreakable (2000)

7.1 10.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

Style: shocking

Plot: philadelphia, pennsylvania, parent child relationship, marriage crisis, superhero, train accident, invulnerability, biting, ...

Cast

Adrian Grenier

Zoe Kazan

Betty Gabriel

Phoenix Raei

Clickbait (2021) TV Show

7.1 452 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Australia, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.

Plot: san francisco, california, adultery, detective, kidnapping, psychological thriller, missing person, social media, ...

Cast

Peter Coyote

Emmanuelle Seigner

Hugh Grant

Kristin Scott Thomas

Bitter Moon (1992)

7.1 858 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: R

Story: A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Plot: marriage crisis, married couple, eroticism, cruise, wheelchair, longing, paralysis, sadomasochism, ...

Cast

John Marley

Gena Rowlands

Lynn Carlin

Fred Draper

Faces (1968)

7.1 221 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the couple and those around them confront a seemingly futile search for what they've lost -- love, excitement, passion -- this classic American independent film explores themes of aging and alienation.

Plot: adultery, prostitute, alcohol, marriage crisis, love, divorce

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