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Taken 3(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Thriller, Action
3.1/5 (with 2,607 votes)

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

The Babysitters(2008)

R
| 1h 28min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 186 votes)

Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.

Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 1,262 votes)

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

A Royal Affair(2012)

R
| 2h 17min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 398 votes)

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

The One I Love(2014)

R
| 1h 31min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 298 votes)

On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

A Crime in Paradise(2001)

1h 29min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 57 votes)

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...

Look Back in Anger(1959)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Clair Obscur(2017)

1h 45min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of breakdown, opens a new path in her.

Wuthering Heights(1954)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.

Murder(2004)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 14 votes)

To escape a secure but stifling life with her workaholic husband Sudhir, bored housewife Simran begins an affair with Sunny, an ex-boyfriend from her college days. However, when Sudhir grows suspicious and hires a private detective, the infidelity soon comes to light.

The Free World(2016)

R
| 1h 40min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.

Directed by Jason Lew - With Boyd Holbrook

Afterglow(1997)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.

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The Sea of Grass(1947)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, Western
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

United States of Love(2016)

1h 44min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.

The Purchase Price(1932)

NR
| 1h 8min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

Behind the Painting(2001)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An older Nopporn looks at a simple painting and recollects the story behind it. As a young student in Japan, he once met and fell in love with Kirati, who was unhappily married to an older man.

Directed by Cherd Songsri

Vaalvi(2023)

1h 46min | Comedy, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Vaalvi is a dark comedy that explores the profound human nature involving selfishness, apathy and self-preservation.

Laia(2016)

1h 24min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

"Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the adversities of destiny. There, Laia lives, a woman marked by a miserable and unhappy childhood, that is debated between her cruel husband and lover who is his best friend and faces the hatred of a whole town while dreaming of a freedom that only the sea can grant.

In the Grip of Passion(1947)

1h 30min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute of a man and she longs for the man she truly loves.

Directed by Teuvo Tulio - With Regina Linnanheimo

Matar es fácil(1966)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island(1941)

NR
| 1h 11min | Drama

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

Directed by Lew Landers

Coast to Coast(2004)

1h 48min | Drama, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way, as they visit family and friends, they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.

Directed by Paul Mazursky - With Richard Dreyfuss

Redeemed(2014)

NR
| 1h 28min | Drama
1.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Paul Tyson is a loving husband, devoted father and well-respected businessman on the brink of the biggest business deal of his career. And then Julia walks in. Breathtakingly beautiful, Julia is sent to manage the high-stakes buy-out of Paul's company but the relationship goes a bit farther than intended. As the pressures of a crumbling company creep in and intense new feelings abound, wedding vows get put on the back burner and the question arises... Just what is adultery?

In the Palm of Your Hand(1951)

1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.

Nora Helmer(1974)

1h 41min | Drama, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.

The Strange Madame X(1951)

1h 25min | Drama
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...

Directed by Jean Grémillon - With Michèle Morgan, Albert Malbert, Arlette Thomas, Christian Lude, Fernand Gilbert, Gaston Garchery, ...

Madame Bovary(1947)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.

Directed by Carlos Schlieper - With Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada, Enrique Diosdado, Alberto Bello, Angelina Pagano, Ricardo Galache, ...

Hannele's Ascension(1922)

1h 32min | Drama

A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.