Top Cast
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Jean-Pierre Bacri
Jacques
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Nathalie Baye
Carole
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Isabelle Carré
Édith
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Melvil Poupaud
François
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Agathe Bonitzer
Sonia
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Virgile Grünberg
Léo
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
La jeune mère
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Cécile Reigher
L'antiquaire
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Bakary Sangaré
Overview
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Rating
Recommendations
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
The Married Woman
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Unfaithful
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
Happiness
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Not Easily Broken
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Goodbye Again
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Elena Undone
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
One Fine Morning
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.
The Secret
The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
I Still Believe
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.