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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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2000
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Aging playboy falls in love with a woman who has a terminal heart condition. (Richard Gere)
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Autumn in New York
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1941
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Private eye loses love in the course of solving a case involving a priceless statue. (Mary Astor)
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The Maltese Falcon
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2015
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In a dystopic future, man has 45 minutes to find a partner or he will be turned into an animal and cast into the wilderness. (Colin Farrell)
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The Lobster
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2014
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Woman in unhappy marriage disappears, casting suspicion on her husband for her possible murder. (Rosamund Pike)
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Gone Girl
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1987
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Married man has a one-night stand with a woman who begins stalking him afterward and endangers his family. (Michael Douglas)
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Fatal Attraction
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1996
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Three divorced women team up to get revenge on the ex-husbands who left them. (Goldie Hawn)
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The First Wive's Club
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2014
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Comedy in which a cheating husband hires a hitman to kill his wife. (Simon Pegg)
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Kill Me Three Times
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2020
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Married man has an affair with a woman who happens to be the detective who investigates a break-in at his house. (Hilary Swank)
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Fatale
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2017
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African-American boyfriend goes home with white girlfriend and is mesmerized by her family's parenting skills. (Daniel Kaluuya)
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Get Out
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2014
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Woman learns her husband is a killer in this adaptation of a Stephen King short story. (Joan Allen)
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A Good Marriage
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2019
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Married couple go through a painful separation and divorce with a young son caught in the middle. (Adam Driver)
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Marriage Story
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1983
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Best picture winner in which a daughter gets cancer and the mother she constantly fights with fights for her daughter. (Shirley MacLaine)
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Terms of Endearment
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2006
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Couple living together break-up but decide to remain living together because the rent is so expensive. (Vince Vaughn)
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The Break-Up
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2004
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Two couples meet and the combination of jealousy and desire pulls them apart. (Natalie Portman)
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Closer
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1992
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Infamous leg-crossing scene in a police interrogation room. (Michael Douglas)
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Basic Instinct
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1988
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Popular high school kid befriends rebellious new kid with a killer instinct. (Winona Ryder)
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Heathers
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1980
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Dull writer gets the spirit in him and starts to play ax murderer in a hotel he, his wife and son are caretaking while the owners are away. (Jack Nicholas)
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The Shining
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2016
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Desperate Manhattan housewife hires a recently single homeless woman to babysit, and the sitter kidnaps the child. (Allison Janney)
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Tallulah
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2015
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Man makes regrettable decision to go to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife. (Logan Marshall-Greene)
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The Invitation
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2010
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Real estate scion is suspected of murdering his wife, who has disappeared. (Kirsten Dunst)
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All Good Things
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2012
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Two women decide to found and run their own phone-sex line. (Justin Long)
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For a Good Time Call
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2009
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English professor finds coping with life difficult after his boyfriend dies. (Colin Firth)
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A Single Man
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2007
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Girl ruins several lives by giving false testimony that her older sister's lover committed a crime. She grows to enjoy great and guilt-ridden success. (Keira Knightley)
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Atonement
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1989
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Couple in the midst of a divorce battle one another in an attempt to get the other to leave the house. (Michael Douglas)
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War of the Roses
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1986
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British punk-rock relationship goes into a downward spin of drugs and death. (Chloe Webb)
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Sid and Nancy
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1979
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Recently divorced ad-exec goes through a protracted child-custody battle. (Dustin Hoffman)
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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1986
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Magazine writer who gave up her career for family, learns her newspaper columnist husband is cheating on her while she is pregnant. (Meryl Streep)
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Heartburn
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2013
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Couple get married quickly, and end up in couples counseling even more quickly and it seems a friend's prediction at the wedding might be coming true. (Rafe Spall)
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I Give it a Year
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2008
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Titanic couple return to the silver screen to portray an unhappy married couple struggling through the 1950s. (Kate Winslet)
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Revolutionary Road
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2002
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New York couple's marriage is endangered when the wife has an adulterous affair. (Richard Gere)
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Unfaithful
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2014
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Musical deconstruction of a love affair and marriage over a span of 5 years. (Anna Kendrick)
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The Last Five Years
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1966
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Bitter middle-aged couple vent the anger they feel for one another on work colleagues they've invited to their home for a night. (Richard Burton)
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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2009
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During a Mediterranean vacation a couple's fidelity is tested when they meet another couple. (Birgit Minichmayr)
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Everyone Else
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1982
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California man leaves his family of four for a younger mistress and the abandoned family must learn to cope. (Albert Finney)
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Shoot the Moon
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1993
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Divorcee meets another woman, quickly remarries and then realizes he doesn't know much about her as more light is shed on her past. (Madchen Amick)
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Dream Lover
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1950
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A screenwriter suspected of murder is cleared by his neighbor, who begins to have doubts about the man's innocence. (Humphrey Bogart)
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In a Lonely Place
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1991
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Pair of women have men troubles, go out on the road, have more men troubles that attracts the law and then drive off a cliff together. (Susan Sarandon)
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Thelma and Louise
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2018
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Four women married to criminals who died, undertake another heist to pay off the debt amassed by their husbands. (Viola Davis)
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Widows
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1988
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A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet about corrupting a married woman. (John Malkovich)
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Dangerous Liaisons
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2002
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High school senior swimmer learns the consequences of a one-night stand can be quite harsh when the other person is obsessed. (Erika Christensen)
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Swimfan
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2000
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Record store owner goes through a breakup and reflects upon his top 5 breakups. (John Cusack)
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High Fidelity
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2003
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On impulse, a recently divorced literature professor and author buys a villa in Italy. (Diane Lane)
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Under the Tuscan Sun
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1993
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Biopic of Tina and Ike Turner's tumultuous relationship and eventual breakup. (Laurence Fishburne)
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What's Love Got to Do With It?
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2011
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As the world is about to end from collision with another planet, two sisters find their relationship strained on the night of one of their weddings. (Kirsten Dunst)
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Melancholia
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2019
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A film student in the '80s becomes involved in a toxic relationship with an untrustworthy man. (Tom Burke)
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The Souvenir
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2019
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A couple travel to Sweden for a festival and find themselves at the hands of a pagan cult. (Florence Pugh)
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Midsommar
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2010
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Woman in an unhappy marriage gets a divorce and travels the world to "find herself." (Javier Bardem)
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Eat Pray Love
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2006
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Poet and artist fall deeply in love, but their love for heroin is even greater. (Abbie Cornish)
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Candy
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1996
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Girl winds up in a relationship with an obsessive man who will do just about anything to stay with her, including beating himself up and blaming it on her father. (Mark Wahlberg)
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Fear
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1995
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Man who decides to go to Sin City and drink himself to death, manages to attract a woman. (Elisabeth Shue)
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Leaving Las Vegas
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1991
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Woman fakes her death to escape a controlling husband, but he manages to find her anyway. (Patrick Bergin)
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Sleeping With the Enemy
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1990
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Cat-and-mouse game ensues after a rookie cop mistakenly dates a psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. (Jamie Lee Curtis)
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Blue Steel
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2020
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Man with light-deflecting technology fakes his suicide so he can taunt his widow while the world believes he is dead. (Oliver Jackson-Cohen)
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The Invisible Man
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2002
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Woman who leaves an abusive relationship is tracked down by her ex, and she makes a stand after training in Krav Maga. (Jennifer Lopez)
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Enough
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2006
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Man dumps a super-hero and she uses her powers to make his life difficult. (Luke Wilson)
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
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2012
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Couple are madly in love with alcohol and it greatly affects their relationship. (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
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Smashed
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1972
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A married couple struggle to deny that their marriage is not working out. (Jean Yanne)
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We Won't Grow Old Together
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1944
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Woman returns home to live in London with the husband she married in Italy. As her husband becomes obsessed with the house that her aunt died in, she begins to question his intentions. (Ingrid Bergman)
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Gaslight
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2009
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Car magnate who has made some bad romantic and business decisions watches as his life becomes a shambles. (Michael Douglas)
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Solitary Man
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2012
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While a sophisticated octogenarian couple is living in Britain, the wife has a stroke and the relationship is severely tested. (Emmanuelle Riva)
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Amour
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1995
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Made-for-TV movie about a man who stalks his wife and son when they flee to a women's shelter. (Corbin Bernsen)
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Dangerous Intentions
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2019
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Bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when the groom's family begins to hunt her. (Samara Weaving)
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Ready or Not
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2006
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War veteran holes up with a lonely woman in an Oklahoma motel and pulls her into his delusion. (Michael Shannon)
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Bug
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2003
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Bennifer gets romantic on the silver screen in this box-office flop. (Jennifer Lopez)
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Gigli
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2003
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Best friends play an ever-escalating game of one-upmanship dares that have negative impacts on their relationships and marriages. (Gillaume Canet)
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Love Me if You Dare
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2008
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Man with a plan for his life meets a free-spirited woman, falls in love and gets unceremoniously dumped. (Elisha Cuthbert)
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My Sassy Girl
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2003
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Married woman meets celebrity in Japan and sparks fly even though they are both too honor bound to do anything about it. (Bill Murray)
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Lost in Translation
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2010
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Painter woos nurse with ukelele in this story of a working class couple. (Michelle Williams)
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Blue Valentine
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1939
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Frankly, my dear, he doesn't give a damn. (Rhett Butler)
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Gone With the Wind
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2011
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Movie stunt driver meets the perfect woman, then her husband gets out of jail and things go bad. (Ryan Gosling)
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Drive
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2010
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In Post-WWII Germany, almost a decade after he had an affair with an older woman, man encounters her as she is defending herself in a war-crime trial. (Ralph Fiennes)
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The Reader
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2008
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Man falls in love after executing the majority of his plan to donate all of his organs to worthy individuals upon his death. (Will Smith)
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Seven Pounds
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2001
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After relationships sour, man realizes he is living in a constructed reality and calls for tech support. (Penelope Cruz)
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Vanilla Sky
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2007
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As a way to deal with tragic loss, a small-town man begins dating a plastic doll and the entire town goes along with it. (Ryan Gosling)
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Lars and the Real Girl
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1955
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A school principal's wife and mistress conspire to kill him. All goes well until the body goes missing. (Simone Signoret)
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Diabolique
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2018
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Husband falls in love with a client who happens to be an employee in his wife's tea shop. (Xavier LeMaitre)
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Infidelity
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2009
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Gynecologist fears her husband is cheating on her, so to find out, hires an escort to try and seduce him. (Amanda Seyfried)
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Chloe
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2000
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Drug addiction both fuels and destroys the relationships of two couples. (Jared Leto)
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Requiem for a Dream
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1999
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In this modern update, pair of rich step siblings wager on the corruption of another female prep-school student. (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
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Cruel Intentions
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1963
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A screenwriter's marriage falls to pieces as his wife spends more and more time with the producer of the film on which she is working. (Jack Palance)
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Contempt
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2020
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Woman gets revenge on the men who wronged her close friend. (Carey Mulligan)
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Promising Young Woman
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1958
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Ex-football athlete drinks away his relationship with his wife while his father is terminally ill. (Paul Newman)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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1986
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Scientist has an accident and starts changing into an insect, repulsing his girlfriend. (Geena Davis)
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The Fly
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2005
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In one of National Lampoon's less comical films, college students Eve and Adam start dating in college. Adam cheats on Eve and loses her (Cameron Douglas)
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National Lampoon's Adam & Eve
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2009
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Three women who meet in anger management class go into business together killing the exes of other women. (Amber Heard)
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ExTerminators
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2008
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A husband suspects his wife of adultery and sets out to track down the man she got involved with. (Liam Neeson)
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The Other Man
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1990
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When the woman a lawyer had an affair with turns up dead and he is assigned the murder case, he tries to cover up his involvement, and ends up casting suspicion on himself, giving an advantage to the real killer. (Bonnie Bedelia)
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Presumed Innocent
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2001
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Rich man falls in love with woman who cons him and absconds with his money. He searches her out and finds she is doing the same thing to others. (Antonio Banderas)
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Original Sin
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2003
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1950s art professor suggests her female students question their traditional roles. (Julia Roberts)
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Mona Lisa Smile
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2012
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Celtic princess defies tradition in the highlands of Scotland. (Billy Connolly)
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Brave
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2017
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A Union soldier unexpectedly arrives at a Virginia girls school during the Civil War and his presence leads to jealousy and betrayal. (Nicole Kidman)
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The Beguiled
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1971
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Disc jockey's life becomes strife-ridden after becoming romantically involved with an obsessed fan. (Clint Eastwood)
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Play Misty for Me
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2006
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Group of man's exes team up to heap their revenge on him by setting him up with the new girl in town so his heart will be broken. (Ashanti)
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John Tucker Must Die
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2016
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World War II officer learns his wife is a spy and must decide where his greater loyalty lies. (Brad Pitt)
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Allied
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2014
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Mistress discovers her boyfriend is married, talks to the wife, and the two of them discover he's cheating on both of them with another woman. They team up to get revenge on him. (Cameron Diaz)
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The Other Woman
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1998
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Wall Street speculator finds out his wife is cheating on him, then finds the man she's cheating with and makes that man kill his wife. (Michael Douglas)
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A Perfect Murder
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2008
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Psychological thriller in which a woman finds herself locked in a room after a car crash. A man enters and tells her that her husband has stolen millions from a crime syndicate and is a killer as well. (Melissa George)
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The Betrayed
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1984
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The Coen brothers' first film about a bar owner who discovers his wife is having an affair and plots to kill her. (John Getz)
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Blood Simple
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2013
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Singer and songwriter gets involved with her guitarist and finds out he has a checkered past that could be harmful to her. (Emily Browning)
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Plush
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1989
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Married man begins affair with a rich romance novelist and his wife swears revenge. (Roseanne Barr)
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She-Devil
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