
On the Rocks
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
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Manhattan
1979★ 7.7
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.

You Hurt My Feelings
2023★ 6.3
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970★ 6.2
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

Unfaithful
2002★ 6.7
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Careful What You Wish For
2015★ 6.1
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

Heartburn
1986★ 6.0
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

The Seven Year Itch
1955★ 7.0
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Manhattan Night
2016★ 5.9
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

The Only Living Boy in New York
2017★ 6.3
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

Someone to Watch Over Me
1987★ 5.9
Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

A Thousand and One
2023★ 6.6
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Why Did I Get Married?
2007★ 6.5
Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long reunion, but the mood shifts when one couple's infidelity comes to light. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins to question their own relationship.

Romance & Cigarettes
2005★ 6.0
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.

Alfie
2004★ 5.9
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Take This Waltz
2011★ 6.4
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

Deep Water
2022★ 5.8
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

Strictly Sexual
2008★ 6.1
Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.

The Daytrippers
1997★ 6.6
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.

Landline
2017★ 6.1
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Crime of Passion
1956★ 6.1
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.