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Another Year (2010)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  129 min. 
Plot: An older, happily married couple are surrounded over the course of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley. Directed by Mike Leigh.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Health

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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (2011)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  124 min. 
Plot: Seven cash-strapped seniors decide to 'outsource' their retirement to a resort in far-off India.
Cast: Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup. Directed by John Madden.
Categories:  International  Elder  Marital Relations

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Big Eyes (2014)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  106 min. 
Plot: The success of the painter Margaret Kean and the subsequent legal difficulties with her husband, who later claimed credit for her works.
Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Jon Polito. Directed by Tim Burton.
Categories:  Biography  Art  Marital Relations

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Big Love Season 1 (2006)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (5 disc set) 11 hours, 58 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by .
Categories:  Television  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Big Love Season 2 (2007)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (4 disc set) 11 hours, 58 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by .
Categories:  Television  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Big Love Season 3 (2009)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (4 disc set) 9 hours, 58 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by .
Categories:  Television  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Big Love Season 4 (2010)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 36 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by .
Categories:  Television  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Big Love Season 5 (2011)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (4 disc set) 9 hours, 58 min. 
Plot: An ongoing saga of a polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by .
Categories:  Television  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Birth (2004)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  100 min. 
Plot: A woman becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Arliss Howard, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Anne Heche. Directed by Jonathan Glazer.
Categories:  Marital Relations  SciFi/Fantasy

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Blue Valentine (2010)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  112 min. 
Plot: A love story of a young married couple who have grown apart, attempting to save their relationship.
Cast: John Doman, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling. Directed by Derek Cianfrance.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Marital Relations

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Blume In Love (1973)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  115 min. 
Plot: A divorce lawyer experiences a paradoxical situation when his own marriage is breaking up and he finds he's still in love with his wife.
Cast: George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Shelley Winters, Marsha Mason. Directed by Paul Mazursky.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Drama  Comedy

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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  105 min. 
Plot: Two couples attend a weekend self-help self-discovery session which leads to an examination of their feelings as well as their individual relationships with each other.
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon. Directed by Paul Mazursky.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations  Romance

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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  159 min. 
Plot: A wife, who prayed for her oilman husband to return, feels guilty when he returns paralyzed.
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier. Directed by Lars von Trier.
Categories:  Foreign  Drama  Marital Relations

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Clerks II (2006)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 97 min. 
Plot: Two inveterate slackers flipping burgers at a fast food joint long to break out and do something more with their lives.
Cast: Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach, Jason Mewes. Directed by Kevin Smith.
Categories:  Employment  Comedy  Marital Relations

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Eighth Season (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 300 min. 
Plot: Larry's divorce is finalized; a faulty alibi lands him back in New York.
Cast: Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman . Directed by Robert B. Weide..
Categories:  Comedy  Television  Marital Relations

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Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  99 min. B&W
Plot: A commercial artist who is involved with a married lawyer agrees to marry an army sergeant, just as her lawyer gets a divorce.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda. Directed by Otto Preminger.
Categories:  Romance  Marital Relations

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Desert Flower (2009)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  127 min. 
Plot: Based on the book by model Waris Dirie,who escaped from an arranged marriage crossed the deserts of Somalia.
Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall, Soraya Omar-Scego. Directed by Sherry Horman.
Categories:  International  Children  Marital Relations

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Django Unchained (2012)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD  165 min. 
Plot: A former slave turned hired gun heads back to the plantation to free his wife.
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Justice

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Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  105 min. B&W
Plot: In France in the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts and claims to have lost them.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt. Directed by Max Ophuls.
Categories:  Debtor-Creditor  Marital Relations  Drama

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 159 min. 
Plot: A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Drama

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Far From Heaven (2002)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson. Directed by Todd Haynes.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Racism

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Gaslight (1944)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  113 min. B&W
Plot: A young bride is psychologically tortured by her husband.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Landsbury. Directed by George Cuker.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Mental Health  Marital Relations

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Gift, The (2015)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  108 min. 
Plot: A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light.
Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton. Directed by Joel Edgerton.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Mental Health  Marital Relations

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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: As the eldest of three daughters, Hannah is the one that holds the family together, that is until her sisters begin relationships with her current and former husbands.
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Lloyd Nolan, Max Von Sydow, Carrie Fisher. Directed by Woody Allen.
Categories:  Family  Marital Relations

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Heartbreak Kid, The (2007)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  116 min. 
Plot: A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.
Cast: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, Carlos Mencia. Directed by Bobby Farrelly.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations

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Houdini (1953)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  106 min. 
Plot: A struggling circus performer emerges as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.
Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel. Directed by George Marshall.
Categories:  Drama  Biography  Marital Relations

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Husbands and Wives (1992)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Blythe Danner, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson. Directed by Wood Allen.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations

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I Smile Back (2015)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  85 min. 
Plot: An undependable spouse and mother makes one last desperate attempt at redemption just before the destruction of her family.
Cast: Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron. Directed by Adam Salky.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Marital Relations

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It's Complicated (2009)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  120 min. 
Plot: A couple reignites the spark in their relationship while attending their son's college graduation.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski. Directed by Nancy Meyers.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations  Family

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Jindabyne (2006)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  123 min. 
Plot: Four men on their annual fishing trip discover the body of a girl in the river, and to their wives' dismay do not report it immediately to the police.
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard. Directed by Ray Lawrence.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Marital Relations

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Keeping Mum (2005)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****1/2
Format:  DVD  104 min. 
Plot: An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his family is unravelling around him.
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton, Toby Parkes, Liz Smith, Emilia Fox. Directed by Niall Johnson.
Categories:  Family  Marital Relations  Drama

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Like Water for Chocolate (1993)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  105 min. 
Plot: Life, as it used to be, in Mexico.
Cast: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne, Mario Ivan Martinez. Directed by Alfonso Arau.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Marital Relations

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Love Actually (2003)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  135 min. 
Plot: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives.
Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson. Directed by Richard Curtis.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations  Government

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Loving & Cheating (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  55 min. 
Plot: Couples, singles and advice givers answer questions about monogamy and infidelity.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Thom Powers.
Categories:  Documentary  Domestic Relations  Marital Relations

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Loving Story, The (2011)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  77 min. B&W
Plot: The 1950s case of a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia for marrying across racial lines.
Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Nancy Buirski.
Categories:  Documentary  Civil Rights  Marital Relations

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Lucky (2011)
Rated:  R  Stars: **1/2
Format:  DVD  103 min. 
Plot: A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
Cast: Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret, Jeffrey Tambor, Tom Amandes. Directed by Gil Cates Jr..
Categories:  Comedy  Criminal Law  Marital Relations

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Mad Men: Season Six (2013)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (4 disc set) 611 min. 
Plot: Characters deal with the after effects of adultery, divorce, a merger, and an ever changing social climate in late 1960s New York advertising.
Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, John Slattery, Kiernan Shipka, Robert Morse. Directed by Scott Hornbacher, Jon Hamm, Michael Uppendahl.
Categories:  Testimony  Marital Relations  Accounting

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Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 119 min. B&W
Plot: A strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss. Directed by Otto Preminger.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Health

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Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  104 min. 
Plot: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Anjelica Huston, Diane Keaton. Directed by Woody Allen.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations  Evidence

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Marnie (1964)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  131 min. 
Plot: A husband struggles to help his wife overcome her psychological problems.
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Mental Health  Marital Relations

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Married Life (2007)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  91 min. 
Plot: An adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams. Directed by Ira Sachs.
Categories:  Criminal Law  Marital Relations  Drama

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Mildred Pierce (1945)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  111 min. B&W
Plot: A woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Children  Marital Relations

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Mother of George (2013)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  107 min. 
Plot: A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads to a shocking decision that could either save or destroy the family.
Cast: Isaach De Bankole, Anthony Okungbowa, Danai Gurira, Yaya Alafia. Directed by Andrew Dosunmu.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Marital Relations

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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  146 min. B&W
Plot: A woman who used her beauty to manipulate the men in her life must come to terms with the loss of this attribute after an illness.
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel. Directed by Vincent Sherman.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Women

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Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  97 min. 
Plot: Two people turn to each other for comfort, and in one magical weekend, set in motion a life-changing romance.
Cast: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Scott Glenn, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Mae Whitman. Directed by George C. Wolfe.
Categories:  Romance  Family  Marital Relations

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P.S. I Love You (2007)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  127 min. 
Plot: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Cast: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Conick Jr., Gina Gershon. Directed by Richard LaGravenese.
Categories:  Drama  Comedy  Marital Relations

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Painted Veil, The (2006)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  125 min. 
Plot: A young couple who got married for the wrong reasons, head to a small village in China to combat a cholera outbreak and possibly save their marriage.
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg. Directed by John Curran.
Categories:  Health  Marital Relations  Poverty

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Piano, The (1993)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  121 min. 
Plot: A mute woman along with her young daughter are sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner.
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill. Directed by Jane Campion.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Drama

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Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  113 min. B&W
Plot: A married woman and a drifter fall in love and plot to murder her husband.
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn. Directed by Tay Garnett.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Criminal Law  Marital Relations

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Professionals, The (1966)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  117 min. 
Plot: A Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy. Directed by Richard Brooks.
Categories:  Action  Western  Marital Relations

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: Story of the psychologist and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and his mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Cast: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcode. Directed by Angela Robinson.
Categories:  Biography  Drama  Marital Relations

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Pursuit of Equality (2005)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  80 min. 
Plot: Documents the compelling human rights struggles surrounding same-sex marriage.
Cast: Performers portray themselves. Directed by Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw.
Categories:  Documentary  Human Rights  Marital Relations

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Rabbit Hole (2010)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  91 min. 
Plot: The journey of a couple finding their way back to love after an enormous loss.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard, Miles Teller. Directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
Categories:  Drama  Family  Marital Relations

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Raging Bull (1980)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD (2 disc set) 129 min. B&W
Plot: An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
Categories:  Sports  Biography  Marital Relations

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Salesman, The (2016)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  124 min. 
Plot: While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections. In Persian with English subtitles.
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi. Directed by Asghar Farhadi.
Categories:  Foreign  Drama  Marital Relations

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Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Rated:  R  Stars: **1/2
Format:  DVD  145 min. 
Plot: After moving in together, Carrie and Mr. Big make a rather arbitrary decision to get married.
Cast: Sarah Jessica parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis,Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudson, Candice Bergen, Chris Noth. Directed by Michael Patrick King.
Categories:  Romance  Marital Relations

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  99 min. 
Plot: Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
Cast: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laure San Giacomo. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Categories:  Drama  Media  Marital Relations

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Sister Wives (2011)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  189 min. 
Plot: Sister Wives reveals a side of polygamy that has never been seen before.
Cast: Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Jannelle Brown, Christine Brown, Robyn Brown. Directed by .
Categories:  Marital Relations  Family  Ethics

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Sister Wives 2 (2011)
Rated:  NC-17  Stars: **
Format:  DVD  195 min. 
Plot: Sister Wives reveals a side of polygamy that has never been seen before.
Cast: Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Jannelle Brown, Christine Brown, Robyn Brown. Directed by .
Categories:  Family  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Sleuth (1972)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  138 min. 
Plot: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Marital Relations

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Snake Pit (1948)
Rated:  PG  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  108 min. B&W
Plot: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband.
Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Celeste Holm, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn. Directed by Anatole Partos.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Mental Health

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Straw Dogs (1971)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  118 min. 
Plot: A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George. Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations

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Suspicion (1941)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  99 min. B&W
Plot: A shy young woman suspects her charming husband is trying to kill her.
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cederic Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Ethics

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Theory of Everything, The (2014)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  Blu-ray/DVD  123 min. 
Plot: The relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney. Directed by James Marsh.
Categories:  Drama  Biography  Marital Relations

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Unfaithful (2002)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  124 min. 
Plot: A couple living in the New York city suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Cast: Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere, Oliver Martinez. Directed by Adrian Lyne.
Categories:  Drama  Mystery/Suspense  Marital Relations

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Vacancy (2007)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  85 min. 
Plot: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the victims of the movies they're watching.
Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry. Directed by Nimrod Antal.
Categories:  Mystery/Suspense  Marital Relations

Law movies
Valet, The (2006)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  85 min. 
Plot: A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage. In French with English subtitles.
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry. Directed by Francis Veber.
Categories:  Foreign  Marital Relations

Law movies
Waitress (2007)
Rated:  PG-13  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  108 min. 
Plot: An unhappily married waitress finds out she is pregnant and becomes determined to win the cash prize from a pie contest so she can leave her husband.
Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Eddia Jemison. Directed by Adrienne Shelly.
Categories:  Family  Marital Relations  Comedy

Law movies
Wedding Party, The (1997)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  97 min. 
Plot: A guy about to marry the perfect woman can't stop thinking about his very flawed first love.
Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor. Directed by Amanda Jane.
Categories:  Comedy  Marital Relations

Law movies
Week-End, Le (2013)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  93 min. 
Plot: A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Oliy Alexander, Judith Davis. Directed by Roger Michell.
Categories:  Drama  Romance  Marital Relations

Law movies
Where Danger Lives/Tension (1950)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ***
Format:  DVD  171 min. B&W
Plot: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, is involved in her husband's death, and flees with her to the Mexican border/A pharmacist creates an alter ego under which he plans to murder his wife's lover.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Richard Basehart, Anthony Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan. Directed by John Farrow and John Berry.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Medical  Criminal Law

Law movies
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Rated:  NR  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  131 min. B&W
Plot: A bitter aging couple use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, RIchard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis. Directed by Mike Nichols.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations

Law movies
Wife, The (2017)
Rated:  R  Stars: ***1/2
Format:  DVD  99 min. 
Plot: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Price, Max Irons. Directed by Bjorne Runge.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Women

Law movies
Wild Tales (2014)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  122 min. 
Plot: Six short stories involving distressed people.
Cast: Dario Grandinetti, Maria Marull, Monica Villa. Directed by Damian Szifron.
Categories:  Drama  Marital Relations  Foreign

Law movies
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  147 min. 
Plot: A blue collar man attempts to deal with his wife's mental instability.
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk. Directed by John Cassavetes.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Mental Health  Drama

Law movies
Wonder Boys (2000)
Rated:  R  Stars: ****
Format:  DVD  112 min. 
Plot: An English professor deals with his wife leaving, his editor arriving after waiting seven years for his book, and attempts to pull his unraveling life together.
Cast: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Robert Downey Jr.. Directed by Curtis Hanson.
Categories:  Marital Relations  Contracts  Education

The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.

You can view a list of all law library movies in the online catalog.