The Story of Us

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The Story of Us (1999)

Drama, Comedy, Romance

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Hope Springs

Hope Springs

2012 ★ 6.3

After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

The One I Love

The One I Love

2014 ★ 6.9

Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.

Celeste & Jesse Forever

Celeste & Jesse Forever

2012 ★ 6.4

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby

1988 ★ 5.9

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

Nothing in Common

Nothing in Common

1986 ★ 5.9

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

Chéri

Chéri

2009 ★ 6.1

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

2011 ★ 7.3

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

The Bachelors

The Bachelors

2017 ★ 7.0

After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again

Anything Else

Anything Else

2003 ★ 6.2

Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994 ★ 6.6

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

Paradise

Paradise

1991 ★ 6.2

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2010 ★ 5.9

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982 ★ 5.9

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.

Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives

1992 ★ 7.0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Cousins

Cousins

1989 ★ 6.0

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.

Switching Channels

Switching Channels

1988 ★ 6.1

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Which Brings Me to You

Which Brings Me to You

2023 ★ 6.2

Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

1996 ★ 6.7

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942 ★ 7.3

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

The Other Woman

The Other Woman

2014 ★ 6.4

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

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