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1) The wife
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
2) Priscilla
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend.
4) Married life
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1940s, a philandering husband plots his wife's death instead of facing the turmoil of divorce.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
6) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the end of World War II, Nelly, an Auschwitz survivor, has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns home to determine whether or not her gentile husband betrayed her to the Nazis.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing, and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home. Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife, Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his...
9) 360
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a businessman is tempted to be unfaithful to his wife, he sets a series of events into motion that affects the lives of others around the world with dramatic consequences.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The egg and I: A new bride's husband tells her on their wedding night that he quit his job to buy a rustic farm and raise chickens, and their life becomes hilariously complicated with all of the new barnyard problems.
Ma and Pa Kettle: In this hilarious adventure, Ma and Pa's house, a building so rickety it's about to be condemned, is replaced by an ultra-modern prefab that Pa wins by dreaming up a slogan for a tobacco company.
Ma and Pa Kettle...
12) A united kingdom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
13) Brief encounter
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
14) Julie & Julia
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
15) The baker's wife
Series
Criterion collection volume 986
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker whose wife has run off wirth a shepherd. Because the baker is upset and cannot bring himself to work, the scandal snowballs and engulfs the entire town.
16) Gone girl
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A man falls under suspicion when his wife mysteriously disappears.
17) The awful truth
Series
Criterion collection volume 917
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A divorcing couple battle over custody of their dog, and in the process find they really want each other back.
18) Harriet Craig
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Harriet Craig, to all outward appearances, is a devoted wife and homemaker. But beneath the surface of her meticulously kept, richly appointed mansion, Harriet is a neurotic perfectionist and a stickler for absolute cleanliness. Her servants are kept on their toes by her shrewish orders and she will stop at nothing to ensure no one upsets the status quo of her complacent life with her husband Walter. When it appears that Walter will be promoted and...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, it follows a secular Jewish family whose lives are turned upside down in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. When Isaac is suddenly arrested and taken to a secret prison, his wife is left to make sense of what has happened and must somehow secure Isaac's release and her family's safety.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Bad lieutenant: In post-Katrina New Orleans, a corrupt police officer relies more and more on drugs to relieve his physical and emotional pain. Trespass: A husband and wife are kidnapped by extornionists and held for ransom. As the situation gets worse and the pressure gets higher, they begin to uncover a web of deceit and betrayal.
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