Movies about Unhappy marriage
Hollywood loves stories about people who meet and fall in love, so much so that you might, in fact, be unavený of watching couples meet and fall in love. There are only so many times you can watch two people bump into each other in the aisle of a grocery store or catch each other’s eyes across the room at a party. Manželský příběh, which arrives on Netflix on December 6, explores the sometimes messy drama that comes po.
The Noah Baumbach film starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson is not necessarily sad, but it is realistic about just how complicated and brutal divorce can be. It’s the latest in a genre of movies that champion the cause of the anti-romcom, reminding viewers that just because something didn’t work out doesn’t mean it’s not a story worth telling. Sometimes divorce is wild, funny, and even, in its own way, romantic. These are the other movies doing divorce right.
20 Of The Best Films Depicting Crumbling Marriages
Disney films and romantic comedies can take you to “happily ever after,” but they rarely ever show you what comes next. The twenty films listed here represent intriguing, provocative, and sometimes problematic views on marriage, from the bitterness of George and Martha in Mike Nichol’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, to the sci-fi births of David Cronenberg’s The Brood and Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession.
Each filmmaker crafts a unique perspective of dissolution, capturing (and sometimes heightening) the emotions that are involved in marital ruptures.
20. The Way We Were (Dir. Sydney Pollack, 1973)
During WWII, Katie (Barbra Streisand) is a political activist who falls deeply in love with the good-looking Hubbell (Robert Redford). The two marry, but differences of opinions, lucrative careers, and acts of infidelity take a toll on their union. After years of marriage, Katie and Hubbell decide to part, realizing that their love was based on idealization rather than reality.
The Way We Were, although clunky and filled with plot holes, delivers exactly what it advertises. It is a sappy melodrama marked by Barbra Streisand’s terrific performance and an intoxicating theme song. It is a film about two people fantasizing their relationship as a unbreakable bond, only to have this fantasy shattered by they reality of their stubbornness and uncompromising perspectives.
19. Take This Waltz (Dir. Sarah Polley, 2011)
While on a business trip, a freelance writer named Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby). The two have an instant connection and soon discover that they are neighbors.
Unfortunately for Margot, who is married to Lou (Seth Rogen), Daniel’s constant presence disturbs her marriage and forces her to choose between her sexual impulses and her fidelity to her husband. Polley’s filmography deals with the bleaker side of matrimony by examining the ways in which diseases, fidelity, and secrets take eat away at a relationship.
Take This Waltz concerns itself primarily with Margot’s internal struggle to find happiness, even at the cost of alienating those that she loves. The film features a fantastic scene in which older women and younger women shower at a recreational center while discussing long-term relationships (one older woman quips that new things eventually get old). Margot’s ultimate decision may not cater to everyone’s tastes, but it is brutally honest about the benefits and consequences of desire.
18. Giulietta degli spiriti (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1965)
Giulietta (Giulietta Masina) lives an extravagant lifestyle with eclectic friends and neighbors. As her marriage slowly crumbles, she finds solace in exploring the sexual life of Suzy (Sandra Milo). Giulietta’s own past haunts her (marked by hallucinatory sequences and sexual images), and she must grapple with whether or not her marriage can be saved.
Though the film wasn’t as well received as Fellini’s other masterpieces, Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) is still a great film in its own right. It is Giulietta Masina who provides the power of the film, creating a woman who unknowingly buys into a delusion of happiness. She is forced to grapple with her repressed sexuality, leading to a bittersweet climax of dissolution and independence. This is one of Masina’s finest performances.
17. The Squid and the Whale (Dir. Noah Baumbach, 2005)
After years of marriage, Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels) and his wife Joan (Laura Linney) agree to a separation. Their kids, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Kline), try to cope with their parents’ impending divorce as best they can (Walt enters into a talent contest where he claims to have written a Pink Floyd song, while Frank frequently masturbates in the school library).
Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical screenplay presents an intriguing perspective of divorce by looking at its effects on the children. Each child has a parent that he clings to, and each child manifests his own defense mechanism in order to cope with the dissolution of the familial unit. It is an honest portrayal of divorce, one that never holds back on showing real emotions and real neuroses that affect children of divorce.
16. Husbands and Wives (Dir. Woody Allen, 1992)
Two couples – Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis), and Gabe (Woody Allen) and Judy (Mia Farrow) – endure relationship highs and lows. Jack and Sally agree to a separation and begin dating other people, while Gabe and Judy deal with their own marriage, which (although it initially presents a counterpoint to Jack and Sally’s marriage) soon begins to crumble.
Allen’s Husbands and Wives is a brutally honest portrait of marriages/relationships that are running out of steam. The film reveals the lasting effects of dissolution, showing how even though couples may break up, they are still connected in many ways. The emotional weight of the film was exacerbated when Allen’s own relationship to Farrow ended as a result of his indiscretions with Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
15. An Unmarried Woman (Dir. Paul Mazursky, 1978)
Erica (Jill Clayburgh) strongly believes that her marriage is perfect, in spite of a few sexual droughts. When her husband, Martin (Michael Murphy), admits to falling in love with another woman, Erica’s world is shattered and she tries her best to salvage some semblance of happiness.
Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman is a charming vehicle for Jill Clayburgh, who shines as Erica. She seeks any way to fill the void that her marriage left, and tries desperately to understand what led to this separation.
Through her group of friends, her daughter, and her sexual encounters, Erica soon begins to understand that her comfort in the routine of marriage kept her from enjoying life. In spite of Martin wanting to return, and Erica’s boyfriend, Saul (Alan Bates), asking her to move in, Erica decides to pursue her newfound independence.
Movies about unhappy marriages
List of the best films about unhappy marriages, selected by visitors to our site: The Free World, Held, Tell Her, Clair Obscur, Golden Men, United States of Love, Solar Line, The Game Is Over, Sex After Kids, DAU. Three Days.
Nahoře jsou nové filmy roku 2021, popis děje a upoutávky na filmy, které již vyšly.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Žánr | melodrama, drama |
Země | Spojené státy americké |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Žánr | hrůza |
Země | Spojené státy americké |
Nemocné manželství páru je vystaveno zkoušce, když jsou drženi jako rukojmí v izolovaném prázdninovém pronájmu neviditelným Hlasem, který řídí každý jejich pohyb.
Mark | |
Žánr | drama |
Země | Rusko |
How to be a son, whose parents ask every day whom he loves more? Mother or father? How to be a mother if she madly loves her son, but circumstances compel her to take away the child from his father? How to be a father if his son is taken away to America forever, and he can’t imagine a life without him? This is a story about choice. Parents who decide for their children more than often act as best suits them. The child agrees, afraid to cause pain, but time will pass and the child will mature and at some point decide for himself. Only for the parents this is a lot more painful.
Filmy o svobodě
Filmy o falešných obviněních
Filmy se zvráceným dějem
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Žánr | drama |
Země | Turkey, France, Germany, Poland |
Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Žánr | drama, zločin |
Země | Itálie |
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Žánr | drama |
Země | Polsko, Švédsko |
Trvání | 01:43 |
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.
Filmy o přežití
Filmy o malých městech
Žánr | komedie, melodrama |
Země | Rusko |
New year’s night. He and she. The guests have dispersed and it’s time to find out the relationship — do they love each other or no longer? And in principle — did you love? Are they telling the truth or are they lying? Do they only know how to run over or can they forgive too? Should they stay together or get divorced?
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Žánr | drama |
Země | Francie, Itálie |
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Žánr | komedie |
Země | Kanada |
Trvání | 01:45 |
An edgy comedy about the sexual adventures in parenthood.
Filmy ve stylu noir
Filmy o lesbičkách
Filmy o ženách v domácnosti
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Žánr | melodrama, drama |
Země | Ukrajina, Rusko |
It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven’t seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through Maria he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, Dau’s wife, returns home.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Žánr | melodrama, drama |
Země | Francie |
Trvání | 01:58 |
Tony je přijat do rehabilitačního centra po vážné lyžařské nehodě. Závislá na lékařském personálu a lécích proti bolesti, potřebuje čas, aby se podívala zpět na turbulentní vztah, který zažila s Georgiem.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Žánr | drama, vojenství, historie |
Země | Polsko |
Trvání | 01:38 |
Léto roku 1939. Zosia je mladá polská dívka, která je hluboce zamilovaná do Ukrajince Petra. Jejich velká láska bude podrobena zkoušce, když se její otec rozhodne provdat ji za bohatého vdovce Skibu. Hned po svatbě zůstává sama, protože její manžel je odveden do polské armády do války s Německem. Mezitím roste napětí kvůli tomu, že vedle sebe žijí Židé, Poláci a Ukrajinci.
Filmy o milostném trojúhelníku
Filmy o nemocnicích
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Žánr | drama |
Země | Mexiko |
After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband’s brother. From this premise a series of events lead these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions. Two brothers and one woman: the triangle is outlined in a disquieting way. It is a bomb that triggers family secrets, the contained rage of desire and the unmanageable power of love. An exciting story that subjugates the viewer from beginning to end. Even though Zoe/Sonia has been married to Ignacio/Ishan for about a decade, they are unable to have children. She wants to be intimate but he prefers to be ready for intimacy on Saturdays only, and she gets physically drawn to his artistic brother, Gonzalo/Rohan. Then things get complicated for her after she tests positive for motherhood and finds that her husband may be gay.
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