Tag Archives: extramarital affair

The Age of Innocence

IMDB Rating: 7.10
12505 votes

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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.
Actors
Newland ArcherDaniel Day-Lewis
Ellen OlenskaMichelle Pfeiffer
May WellandWinona Ryder
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Indecent Proposal

IMDB Rating: 5.30
15093 votes

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A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.
Actors
John GageRobert Redford
Diana MurphyDemi Moore
David MurphyWoody Harrelson
Also posted in 1993, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Doctor Zhivago

IMDB Rating: 8.00
22479 votes

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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
Actors
Dr. Yuri ZhivagoOmar Sharif
LaraJulie Christie
TonyaGeraldine Chaplin
Also posted in 1965, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

The Color Purple

IMDB Rating: 7.60
21677 votes

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Actors
AlbertDanny Glover
Celie JohnsonWhoopi Goldberg
Shug AveryMargaret Avery
Also posted in 1985, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Crucible

IMDB Rating: 6.80
9209 votes

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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.
Actors
John ProctorDaniel Day-Lewis
Abigail WilliamsWinona Ryder
Judge Thomas DanforthPaul Scofield
Also posted in 1996, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

The Ice Storm

IMDB Rating: 7.50
22718 votes

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In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad...
Actors
Ben HoodKevin Kline
Elena HoodJoan Allen
Janey CarverSigourney Weaver
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

IMDB Rating: 7.80
27101 votes

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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.
Actors
Holly GolightlyAudrey Hepburn
Paul 'Fred' VarjakGeorge Peppard
2-EPatricia Neal
Also posted in 1961, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Schindler’s List

IMDB Rating: 8.90
209352 votes

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"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
Actors
Oskar SchindlerLiam Neeson
Itzhak SternBen Kingsley
Amon GoethRalph Fiennes
Also posted in 1993, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (0)

Falling in Love

IMDB Rating: 6.10
2952 votes

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During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
Actors
Frank RaftisRobert De Niro
Molly GilmoreMeryl Streep
Ed LaskyHarvey Keitel
Also posted in 1984, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Lion in Winter

IMDB Rating: 7.90
8367 votes

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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry's mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.
Actors
Henry IIPeter O'Toole
Eleanor of AquitaineKatharine Hepburn
RichardAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 1968, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)
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