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Marriage Drama

A film in which the action revolves around the unhappily married, with the central conflict usually concerning frustration, infidelity, a marital triangle, and/or divorce. Often these films include touches of melodrama and examine the social, economic and psychological problems associated with day-to-day relationship issues. Action tends to center on either the husband or wife's point of view, though sometimes the marriage is viewed through an outside protagonist, such as another romantic possibility. Some of the best examples of marriage drama include: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Woman Under the Influence, and Cries and Whispers. Subtypes include problems rising from: the arranged marriage (Picture Bride, Gabbeh), gold-digging and social status (The Marriage of Maria Braun, Howard's End) and infidelity sex, lies and videotape, Enemies: A Love Story). In the latter part of the century, as divorce became more of an accepted reality, these films have increased in number and have grown darker, more painful and pessimistic.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1989 sex, lies, and videotape   Steven Soderbergh
  9 Stars 1974 A Woman Under the Influence   John Cassavetes
  9 Stars 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire   Elia Kazan
  9 Stars 1937 A Star is Born   William Wellman
  9 Stars 1991 Raise the Red Lantern   Zhang Yimou
  9 Stars 1949 A Letter to Three Wives   Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  9 Stars 1992 Howards End   James Ivory
  8 Stars 1968 Faces   John Cassavetes
  8 Stars 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?   Mike Nichols
  8 Stars 1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being   Philip Kaufman
  8 Stars 1973 Scenes from a Marriage   Ingmar Bergman
  8 Stars 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge   James Ivory
  8 Stars 1990 Ju Dou   Zhang Yimou
  8 Stars 1983 Entre Nous   Diane Kurys
  8 Stars 1936 Dodsworth   William Wyler
  8 Stars 1962 Days of Wine and Roses   Blake Edwards
  8 Stars 1963 Contempt   Jean-Luc Godard
    7 Stars 1923 La Souriante Madame Beudet   Germaine Dulac
  7 Stars 1999 Eyes Wide Shut   Stanley Kubrick
  7 Stars 1997 Afterglow   Alan Rudolph
    7 Stars 1993 Dongchun de Rizi   Wang Xiaoshuai
    7 Stars 1953 Tsuma   Mikio Naruse
    7 Stars 1951 Meshi   Mikio Naruse
  7 Stars 1994 Once Were Warriors   Lee Tamahori
    7 Stars 1956 Early Spring   Yasujiro Ozu
  7 Stars 1961 La Notte   Michelangelo Antonioni
  7 Stars 1973 A Delicate Balance   Tony Richardson
  7 Stars 1988 Fortunes of War   James Cellan-Jones
  7 Stars 1967 Two for the Road   Stanley Donen
    7 Stars 1981 Smash Palace   Roger Donaldson
  7 Stars 1968 Shame   Ingmar Bergman
  7 Stars 1987 Red Sorghum   Zhang Yimou
  7 Stars 1981 Possession   Andrzej Zulawski
  7 Stars 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer   Robert Benton
  7 Stars 1976 The Innocent   Luchino Visconti
  7 Stars 1990 Henry & June   Philip Kaufman
  7 Stars 1987 The Dead   John Huston
  7 Stars 1954 The Country Girl   George Seaton
  7 Stars 1952 Come Back, Little Sheba   Daniel Mann
  7 Stars 1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof   Richard Brooks
    7 Stars 1983 Betrayal   David Jones
  6 Stars 2001 The Anniversary Party   Alan Cumming
  6 Stars 1997 Metroland   Philip Saville
  6 Stars 1997 Nil by Mouth   Gary Oldman
    6 Stars 1994 The New Age   Michael Tolkin
  6 Stars 1994 Blue Sky   Tony Richardson
  6 Stars 1994 The Wedding Gift   Richard Loncraine
  6 Stars 1994 Trois Couleurs: Blanc   Krzysztof Kieslowski
  6 Stars 1994 When a Man Loves a Woman   Luis Mandoki
  6 Stars 1953 Viaggio in Italia   Roberto Rossellini
  6 Stars 1982 Shoot the Moon   Alan Parker
  6 Stars 1991 Mortal Thoughts   Alan Rudolph
  6 Stars 1981 The Four Seasons   Alan Alda
    6 Stars 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife   Frank Perry
    5 Stars 1999 Oshimai No Hi   Takumi Kumizuka
    5 Stars 1997 The Chambermaid of the Titanic   J.J. Bigas Luna
  5 Stars 1997 Nettoyage à Sec   Anne Fontaine
  5 Stars 1997 She's So Lovely   Nick Cassavetes
    5 Stars 1954 Yama No Oto   Mikio Naruse
  5 Stars 1996 Temptress Moon   Chen Kaige
    5 Stars 1995 Okaeri   Makoto Shinozaki
  5 Stars 1994 La Separation   Christian Vincent
    5 Stars 1983 Bez Svidetelei   Nikita Mikhalkov
  5 Stars 1992 Bitter Moon   Roman Polanski
    5 Stars 1950 Stromboli   Roberto Rossellini
    5 Stars 1965 Le Bonheur   Agnès Varda
  5 Stars 1986 Heartburn   Mike Nichols
    5 Stars 1981 Eijanaika   Shohei Imamura
    5 Stars 1958 Playhouse 90: Days of Wine and Roses   John Frankenheimer
  4 Stars 1998 Leila   Dariush Mehrjui
  4 Stars 1998 A Price Above Rubies   Boaz Yakin
    4 Stars 1997 Bad Manners   Jonathan Kaufer
    4 Stars 1924 The Age of Innocence   Wesley Ruggles
  4 Stars 1994 Picture Bride   Kayo Hatta
  4 Stars 1964 La Femme Mariée   Jean-Luc Godard
  4 Stars 1988 Everybody's All-American   Taylor Hackford
  4 Stars 1986 Desert Bloom   Eugene Corr
  4 Stars 1988 Another Woman   Woody Allen
  3 Stars 1997 One Night Stand   Mike Figgis
  3 Stars 1993 Indecent Proposal   Adrian Lyne
 
 
 
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