A Guide for the Married Man
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
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1941★ 6.6
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1963★ 7.1
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Platinum Blonde
1931★ 6.7
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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1924★ 6.3
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
One Small Hitch
2013★ 6.6
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous families, and a series of events causes them to pretend to be a couple and start planning a phony wedding. When the playacting begins to foster real feelings, the two must make some serious decisions: Split up and return to their lives in LA, or make a life as a couple back in Chicago?
5 to 7
2014★ 7.1
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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1953★ 6.8
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When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.
Housesitter
1992★ 6.2
Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.
Sons of the Desert
1933★ 7.1
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
How to Train Your Husband
2018★ 6.2
A marriage therapist attempts to fix her own marriage by focusing on how to change her husband.
The Blue Dahlia
1946★ 6.7
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Christmas Getaway
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When a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of Christmas and the unexpected power of love.
Keeping Mum
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A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
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1960★ 6.4
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2023★ 6.2
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