Dramatic films about infidelity — affairs, betrayal, and the fallout of broken trust.
Cheating Affair Movies — 56 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.
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Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left w...
In Love
2000
Piotr Wereśniak
8.1
Drama, Romance
Poland
99
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
8½
1963
Federico Fellini
8.1
Drama
Italy
139
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retr...
American Beauty
1999
Sam Mendes
8
Drama
United States of America
122
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Gone Girl
2014
David Fincher
7.9
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
United States of America
149
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Perfect Strangers
2016
Paolo Genovese
7.9
Comedy, Drama
Italy
97
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Three Colors: Red
1994
Krzysztof Kieślowski
7.9
Drama, Mystery, Romance
France
100
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.
Manhattan
1979
Woody Allen
7.7
Comedy, Drama, Romance
United States of America
96
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.
The Bridges of Madison County
1995
Clint Eastwood
7.7
Drama, Romance
United States of America
135
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Boogie Nights
1997
Paul Thomas Anderson
7.6
Drama
United States of America
156
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family o...
The Reader
2008
Stephen Daldry
7.5
Drama, Romance
Germany
124
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He ...
Walk the Line
2005
James Mangold
7.5
Drama, Music, Romance
Germany
136
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Woody Allen
7.5
Comedy, Drama
United States of America
107
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Jules and Jim
1962
François Truffaut
7.5
Drama, Romance
France
106
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
The Great Gatsby
2013
Baz Luhrmann
7.4
Drama, Romance
United States of America
143
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Tom Ford
7.4
Drama, Thriller
United States of America
116
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Match Point
2005
Woody Allen
7.4
Drama, Romance, Thriller
United Kingdom
124
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed w...
Stuck in Love
2013
Josh Boone
7.4
Drama, Comedy, Romance
United States of America
97
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
The Piano
1993
Jane Campion
7.4
Drama, Romance
Australia
120
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Drive My Car
2021
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
7.4
Drama
Japan
179
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the ...
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
Glenn Ficarra
7.3
Comedy, Drama, Romance
United States of America
118
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 fic...
Blood Simple
1985
Joel Coen
7.3
Crime, Drama, Thriller
United States of America
97
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
The Painted Veil
2006
John Curran
7.3
Romance, Drama
Canada
125
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Belle de Jour
1967
Luis Buñuel
7.3
Drama, Romance
France
100
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name B...
Out of Africa
1985
Sydney Pollack
7.2
History, Romance, Drama
United States of America
161
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
Stephen Frears
7.2
Drama, Romance
United States of America
119
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Bound
1996
Lana Wachowski
7.2
Drama, Thriller, Crime
United States of America
105
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
2046
2004
Wong Kar-Wai
7.2
Drama, Science Fiction, Romance
Germany
128
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
TÁR
2022
Todd Field
7.1
Music, Drama
United States of America
158
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
Little Children
2006
Todd Field
7.1
Drama, Romance
United States of America
137
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
The Wife
2017
Björn Runge
7.1
Drama
Sweden
100
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.
Revolutionary Road
2008
Sam Mendes
7
Drama, Romance
United Kingdom
119
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
The Duchess
2008
Saul Dibb
7
Drama, History, Romance
Italy
110
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
The Age of Innocence
1993
Martin Scorsese
7
Drama, Romance
United States of America
138
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Locke
2014
Steven Knight
6.9
Drama, Thriller
United Kingdom
85
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Challengers
2024
Luca Guadagnino
6.9
Drama, Romance
Italy
132
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the ne...
An Education
2009
Lone Scherfig
6.9
Drama, Romance
United Kingdom
100
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Last Tango in Paris
1972
Bernardo Bertolucci
6.9
Drama, Romance
France
129
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
sex, lies, and videotape
1989
Steven Soderbergh
6.9
Drama
United States of America
101
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
Closer
2004
Mike Nichols
6.8
Drama, Romance
United Kingdom
104
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
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