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Manhattan

Manhattan

1979 ★ 7.7

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings

2023 ★ 6.3

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970 ★ 6.2

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

Unfaithful

Unfaithful

2002 ★ 6.7

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Careful What You Wish For

Careful What You Wish For

2015 ★ 6.1

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

Elena Undone

Elena Undone

2010 ★ 6.9

The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

Heartburn

Heartburn

1986 ★ 6.0

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

1955 ★ 7.1

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Manhattan Night

Manhattan Night

2016 ★ 5.9

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

Someone to Watch Over Me

Someone to Watch Over Me

1987 ★ 5.9

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York

2017 ★ 6.3

When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

Why Did I Get Married?

Why Did I Get Married?

2007 ★ 6.5

Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long reunion, but the mood shifts when one couple's infidelity comes to light. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins to question their own relationship.

The Daytrippers

The Daytrippers

1997 ★ 6.5

Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.

Romance & Cigarettes

Romance & Cigarettes

2005 ★ 6.0

Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.

A Thousand and One

A Thousand and One

2023 ★ 6.6

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz

2011 ★ 6.4

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

Harper

Harper

1966 ★ 6.7

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Alfie

Alfie

2004 ★ 5.9

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Deep Water

Deep Water

2022 ★ 5.8

A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

1956 ★ 6.1

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

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