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marital crisis

11 movies and shows

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut

Fri, 16 Jul 1999

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

A Lullaby for Yellow Roses

A Lullaby for Yellow Roses

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

Romance Doll

Romance Doll

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie.

Seven Years of Marriage

Seven Years of Marriage

Wed, 25 Jun 2003

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.

Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier

Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier

Sun, 30 Sep 2007

University teacher Horatio and his young wife Hortense are so wrapped up in their marital crisis, that they are unaware of the conspiracy unfolding around them.

Hen, His Wife

Hen, His Wife

Tue, 01 May 1990

Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead.

Dodsworth

Dodsworth

Wed, 23 Sep 1936

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Wed, 11 Aug 1948

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

Separate Ways

Separate Ways

Fri, 01 May 1981

A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.

The View from Greenhaven

The View from Greenhaven

Wed, 15 Oct 2008

A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.

Wo ist die Liebe hin?

Wo ist die Liebe hin?

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They looked for each other and found each other, say their friends Conny and Bernhard, who fight a lot and often. If a marriage is harmonious, it is this one. However, when Agnes became socially involved in addition to her job, the distribution of roles in the family, which had worked well for years, was thrown out of balance. The change in their relationship leads Agnes and Gregor into their first major crisis, which neither of them can deal with. They are shocked to find that they are about to lose love.