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Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick's beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by "accident." But the best laid plans......
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | murder of husbandsexualityunfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | gas stationcourtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipalcoholiclustlawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | marriage of convenienceolder husband younger wife relationshipcrime gone awrymoral reformationremake of italian filmambiguous titlecrime of passionautomobile accidentvagabonddesertioninsurance fraudgold diggerfatal attractiondistrict attorneydrifter …hitchhikinglawclaim in titleconfessionfemme fataletrialdinerwomanbased on novel (See All) |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots …hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitydeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime of passiondistrict attorneylawconfessiontrial |
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | sexualityunfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | lustlawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime of passionfatal attractionlawconfessionfemme fatalewoman |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme …to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | murder of husbandunfaithfulnessadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | lusthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime gone awryinsurance fraudfemme fatalewomanbased on novel |
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling acces …sory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime gone awrycrime of passiongold digger |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he ge …ts confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | pregnancyinfidelity |
| Locations: | gas stationlos angeles california |
| Characters: | lusthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | ambiguous titledrifterhitchhikingdiner |
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life …, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitydeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | automobile accidenthitchhikingtrialdinerwoman |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be …fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailextramarital affairpregnancyinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | confessionwomanbased on novel |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murde …red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitydeathmurder |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | lawconfessiondinerwomanbased on novel |
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is fo …rced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Characters: | lust |
| Story: | crime of passionfatal attractionfemme fatalewomanbased on novel |
The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by a …n ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | sexualityblackmailadulteryinfidelitymurder |
| Characters: | lust |
| Story: | confessionfemme fatalewoman |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplawyer |
| Story: | diner |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto …p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lustlawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | district attorneytrialwoman |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | gold diggerfemme fatale |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | trialwomanbased on novel |
Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything. Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract (the Massey pre-nup) named after him, he's reached a crossroads in his life. Sat …ed on success, boredom has set in and he's looking for new challenges. All that changes when Miles meets his match in the devastating Marylin Rexroth. Marylin is the soon-to-be ex-wife of his client Rex Rexroth, a wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer. With the help of hard charging private investigator Gus Petch, she has Rex nailed and is looking forward to the financial independence a successful divorce will bring. But thanks to Miles' considerable skills, she ends up with nothing. Not to be outdone, Marylin schemes to get even and as part of her plan, quickly marries oil tycoon Howard Doyle. Miles and his unflappable associate, Wrigley, unwittingly dig themselves in deeper and deeper as they go head-to-head with Marylin. Underhanded tactics, deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marylin and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | marriage of conveniencefemme fataletrialdinerwoman |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa …st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmaildeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | lawfemme fataletrialdinerwomanbased on novel |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | insurance fraudlawconfessiontrialdiner |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
| Themes: | sexualityextramarital affairadulterymurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lustlawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fatal attractionlawfemme fatale |
Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy Realtor is accused of assaulting a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against him, he learns that this case … might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | district attorneytrialwomanbased on novel |
Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's …prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fatal attractionfemme fataletrial |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
| Locations: | gas stationlos angeles california |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | womanbased on novel |
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. A …s a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | blackmailmarriagedeathmurder |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipalcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | district attorneylawfemme fatalebased on novel |
The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher, near to retirement, who is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Je …nnifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Down's Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplusthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fatal attractionconfessionbased on novel |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev …eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fatal attractionfemme fatalewomanbased on novel |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
| Themes: | marriagemurderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | district attorneylawtrialdinerwoman |
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for th …eir marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | confessiontrial |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | diner |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The … one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b… (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | district attorneyconfessiontrial |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | district attorneyconfessiontrialbased on novel |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh …ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | hitchhikingdinerwomanbased on novel |
Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that … she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
| Story: | district attorneylawtrialbased on novel |
Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about perfo …rming a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | sexualityunfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | lusthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | based on novel |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr …iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lusthusband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime of passiontrial |
High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the milita …ry justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died. (Read More)
| Themes: | pregnancymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | trialwomanbased on novel |
A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preac …hers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitydeath |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | crime of passionconfessiontrialwoman |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | confessionfemme fatalewomanbased on novel |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Locations: | gas station |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | drifterdiner |
While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a stran …ge man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | sexualityunfaithfulnessblackmailextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Characters: | lust |
| Story: | crime of passionfemme fatalewoman |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailmurderdeath |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | drifterconfessiontrialdinerwoman |
In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his s …uccess. His reward for doing so will be to spend the night with Merteuil. He has little difficulty seducing Cecile but what he really wants is to seduce Madame de Tourvel. When Merteuil learns that he has actually fallen in love with her, she refuses to let him claim his reward for seducing Cecile. Death soon follows. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairadulterymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationship |
| Story: | fatal attractionfemme fatalewomanbased on novel |
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up Joh …n Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmailextramarital affairinfidelitymurder |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplawyer |
| Story: | womanbased on novel |
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned t …he simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
| Story: | trialwoman |
The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed about her gambling debts; things almost immediately unravel and blow up from here, as Marlowe finds himself deep within a …web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organized crime. Marlowe, with the help of the General's eldest daughter, Vivian, skillfully plot to free the family from this web and trap the main main behind much of this mischief, Eddie, to meet his end at the hands of his own henchmen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | blackmailmurder |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Story: | femme fataledinerbased on novel |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole …rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | diner |
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, a …liens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | blackmailpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
| Story: | district attorneytrial |
In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. An …na meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother and Kitty invites her to stay for the ball. However, Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance in the ball, calling the attention of the conservative society. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | marriage of conveniencelawbased on novel |
A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. … During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | remake of italian filmhitchhiking |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | extramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | desertionbased on novel |
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madl …y in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. (Read More)
| Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairpregnancyadulteryinfidelitydeathmurder |
| Locations: | courtroomlos angeles california |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | trialbased on novel |
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