Films like Leaving
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
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The Woman Next Door
Film · 1981 · also drama and romanceTwo ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
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The Secret
Film · 2000 · also drama and romanceMarie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is re...
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Dream Lover
Film · 1994 · also dramaNot long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begi...
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The Unfaithful Wife
Film · 1969 · also dramaA man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
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The Things of Life
Film · 1970 · also drama and romanceThe mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past wit...
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The Young Lovers
Film · 2022 · also drama and romanceElegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years pre...
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The Married Woman
Film · 1964 · also drama and romanceA superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
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A Tale of Winter
Film · 1992 · also drama and romanceFelicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mo...
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Madame Bovary
Film · 1949 · also drama and romanceIn 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragi...
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Happiness
Film · 1965 · also drama and romanceThough married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal wo...
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