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51. Household Saints (1993)
R | 124 min | Drama
Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.
Director: Nancy Savoca | Stars: Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Judith Malina
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.57M
52. Madame X (1966)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 2,591
53. Another Woman (1988)
PG | 81 min | Drama
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Votes: 15,075 | Gross: $1.56M
54. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,159
55. The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Drama
A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith
Votes: 4,280
56. The Corruption (1986)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A beautiful wife, neglected by her husband, her sensual maid, who holds the reigns. La Bonne is an affair , an exploration, of desire, of force, and control..
Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Florence Guérin, Trine Michelsen, Cyrus Elias, Benito Artesi
Votes: 628
57. Jack & Sarah (1995)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young American woman becomes a nanny in the home of a recent British widower.
Director: Tim Sullivan | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 5,567 | Gross: $0.22M
58. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren
Votes: 2,448 | Gross: $1.40M
59. Not Easily Broken (2009)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Maeve Quinlan, Kevin Hart
Votes: 3,223 | Gross: $10.57M
60. Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (1957)
109 min | Drama, History, Romance
The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 6,008
61. Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton
Votes: 1,715
62. Black Widower (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
True story of a charming, popular American who managed to kill his mother and 3 wives before anyone even suspected him.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Kelly McGillis, David Lipper, Francis X. McCarthy, Lori Hallier
Votes: 263
63. My Wife's Husband (1963)
81 min | Comedy
After 13 years in Germany, Fernand is returning to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disappearance, his wife has started over with a Norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier, Andrex
Votes: 940
64. Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956)
107 min | Drama, History
The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 7,371
65. Phone Sex (1999)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
An ignored housewife gives in to her desires when a stranger insists on getting ''busy'' over the phone. The lines will definitely be steamy at the moment.
Director: Jose Javier Reyes | Stars: Ara Mina, Lee Robin Salazar, Mark Angelo Wilson, Wamachill Guangco
Votes: 649
66. Beautiful & Twisted (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Director: Christopher Zalla | Stars: Rob Lowe, Paz Vega, Candice Bergen, Seychelle Gabriel
Votes: 2,064
67. Platinum Blonde (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes
Votes: 3,467
68. East Side, West Side (1949)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner
Votes: 2,514
69. A Private Function (1984)
R | 92 min | Comedy
In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.
Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths
Votes: 3,192 | Gross: $2.53M
70. Double Suicide (1969)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki, Tokie Hidari
Votes: 2,615
71. Marquis de Sade (1996)
R | 93 min | Drama, History
An innocent woman's search for her missing sister leads her into the infamous world of Marquis de Sade. In a test of wills and wits, she must follow him to his chateau of sin to discover her sister's fate...and to determine her own.
Director: Gwyneth Gibby | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Janet Gunn, John Rhys-Davies, Charlotte Nielsen
Votes: 682
72. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,966
73. Panic in the Parlor (1956)
81 min | Comedy
Emma interrupts Albert's bachelor party, he gets cold feet about marrying her daughter. Unsure if Emma's vow to change will last, Albert marries Shirley anyway.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Cyril Smith
Votes: 410
74. The Bank Dick (1940)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy
Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio
Votes: 7,819
75. Angel in My Pocket (1969)
G | 105 min | Comedy, Family
A homespun minister (Andy Griffith) and his family move to a small town where he tries to win the support and trust of his new congregation.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Andy Griffith, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Lee Meriwether
Votes: 519
76. Humsafar (2011–2012)
35 min | Drama, Romance
Khirad and Ashar are a couple who are pressured into marriage due to the untimely death of Khirad's mother. However, Sara, Ashar's best friend, is heartbroken because she is in love with him.
Stars: Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Atiqa Odho, Navin Waqar
Votes: 4,575
77. Paheli (2005)
Not Rated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A folk tale - supernatural love story about a ghost who falls in love with a newlywed woman.
Director: Amol Palekar | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 14,299 | Gross: $1.41M
78. It's All Relative (2003–2004)
30 min | Comedy, Romance
So you think Romeo and Juliet had family issues? Listen to this: Bobby is a bartender and the only son of gregarious, salt-of-the-earth Irish Catholic parents from Boston. His fiancée Liz, ... See full summary »
Stars: Lenny Clarke, Harriet Sansom Harris, Reid Scott, Maggie Lawson
Votes: 340
79. Strictly Confidential (2006)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Unable to have children with her husband, sex therapist Linda turns to her brother-in-law for help. Life only gets more complicated when Linda is called in to consult on a sordid murder case.
Stars: Suranne Jones, Cristian Solimeno, Tristan Gemmill, Eva Pope
Votes: 113
80. War Bride (2001)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In London during World War II, Lily marries a Canadian soldier who immediately goes off to war. She and her newborn daughter are invited to come and live with his family in Canada, where ... See full summary »
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck | Stars: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean
Votes: 1,555
81. DumbLand (2002)
TV-MA | 35 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors.
Star: David Lynch
Votes: 3,157
82. Twelve Chairs (1971)
PG-13 | 153 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Two gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Votes: 7,300
83. The Perfect Mother (1997 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
A woman marries into a family of self-made immigrants, but discovers that her new mother-in-law is bizarre and still babies her grown-adult son while covering up the family's financial crimes and domestic abuse.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Tyne Daly, Ione Skye, Louis Ferreira, Tuesday Knight
Votes: 350
84. Born and Missing (2017 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Maternal instincts run deep - but how far would you go to have the perfect baby?
Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Kaitlyn Black, David Gallagher, Alexandra Paul, Vanessa Evigan
Votes: 231
85. Dor (2006)
147 min | Drama
Two woman --different backgrounds, miles apart, and strangers to each other-- are linked by tragedy. Their new-found friendship is tested as one holds the fate of the other's husband in her hands.
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor | Stars: Ayesha Takia, Shreyas Talpade, Gul Panag, Girish Karnad
Votes: 6,279
86. Nearlyweds (2013 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Britt Irvin, Ryan Kennedy
Votes: 1,591
87. Langt fra Las Vegas (2001–2003)
TV-MA | 25 min | Drama, Comedy
Unpredictable comedian Casper, pitiful sports-commentator Kenny, and eccentric boss Buckingham are just some of the loving characters in this series about money, sex, and career--all ... See full summary »
Stars: Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam, Klaus Bondam, Lars Hjortshøj
Votes: 2,311
88. Blood & Orchids (1986 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jane Alexander, Sean Young, José Ferrer
Votes: 278
89. The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980 TV Movie)
66 min | Comedy
Story of a mischievous outspoken kid in a small Hungarian town.
Director: Sándor Mihályfy | Stars: Imre Olvasztó, Róbert Koltai, Teri Horváth, Péter Haumann
Votes: 5,268
90. Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Sherif Mounir, Karim Abdel Aziz, Mona Zaki, Kinda Alloush
Votes: 6,222
91. Trideviyaan (2016–2017)
24 min | Action, Comedy
Two pretty housewives work for their father-in-law as secret agents. They are joined by their younger sister-in-law who threatened to blow their cover, but turns into a competent agent ... See full summary »
Stars: Aishwarya Sakhuja, Samaira Rao, Shalini Sahuta, Rituraj Singh
Votes: 35
92. Girl on the Edge (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Family
A troubled teenager falls victim to an online predator. Unable to cope with the trauma, Hannah Green becomes self destructive, and her parents make the heartbreaking decision to send her away to an alternative healing center in the wilderness.
Director: Jay Silverman | Stars: Taylor Spreitler, Peter Coyote, Gil Bellows, Amy Price-Francis
Votes: 761
93. Sueños de Pasion Una suegra muy ardiente (2014 TV Movie)
R | 106 min | Drama
Miroslava Romani es una exuberante y bella ejecutiva que bajo la careta de mujer digna y de negocios esconde una fiera insaciable al encapricharse con un joven irresistible que resulta ser el enamorado de su propia hija.
Director: Fernando del Villar | Stars: Aura Cristina Geithner, Erik Guecha, Alejandro Peniche, Flor Martino Bibolini
Votes: 77
94. Morgan! (1966)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl
Votes: 2,113
95. Runt Page (1932)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A little girl falls asleep as her parents and their friends discuss the film "The Front Page", and she dreams about reporters, a cop, and an escaped convict (all played by children).
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: The Baby Stars, Billy Bletcher, Georgie Smith, Shirley Temple
Votes: 165
96. Behave Yourself! (1951)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime
When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?
Director: George Beck | Stars: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 827
97. I'm Taraneh, 15 (2002)
110 min | Drama
Fifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Negar Javaherian, Hossein Mahjoub, Mahtab Nasirpour
Votes: 3,820
98. Summer of '67 (2018)
83 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two sisters live in the shadow of their mother's suicide, struggling to live their lives and protect their loved ones in the face of the Vietnam war.
Director: Sharon Wilharm | Stars: Joe Lara, Alexandra Sedlak, Skeeta Jenkins, Sam Brooks
Votes: 200 | Gross: $0.01M
99. Masti (2004)
166 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Unhappy with their marriages, best friends, Meet, Prem and Amar, decide to cheat on their wives - but instead become the prime suspects in a murder investigation.
Director: Indra Kumar | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Riteish Deshmukh
Votes: 7,025 | Gross: $0.16M
100. Pos katantisame, Sotiri!.. (1972)
92 min | Comedy
A humble clerk gets his lucky break when a compassionate man offers him a well-paying job. Now, his relatives all want a piece of his salary, as his mother-in-law is telling everyone that he is rich. Is there an easy way out of this mess?
Director: Stelios Tatasopoulos | Stars: Nikos Tsoukas, Nikos Stavridis, Deppy Georgiou, Nitsa Marouda
Votes: 35