Oct 14, 1990 · Crime Drama A lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge of his defense, but can she place his betrayal behind or aside to be able provide him wit... Read all Director Joel Oliansky Writers Sasha Ferrer
In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Votes: 240,766 | Gross: $34.19M
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees. Director: Glenio Bonder | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Natalia Vodianova , Ed Stoppard , Marianne Faithfull
Nov 15, 2021 · Updated on March 31, 2022 by Colin McCormick: The recently released movie Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas showed that movies about cheating and infidelity still engross audiences. Whether the cheating wife or the unfaithful husband, the subject matter is intriguing and makes for some great drama.
One afternoon, Ted makes his way to the hotel where Nunally and Jennifer are and switches his gun with Nunally's. Ted kills uses Nunally's gun to shoot his wife, reloads the weapon, and when Nunally shows up, Ted switches the guns once again. Nunally is in shock and walks away with his gun, the murder weapon.
It turns out the killer is--last chance--publisher Jack Forrester, the Jeff Bridges character. He`s lying on his back, and we see his dead face twice--first for about two seconds, then, after a horrified reaction shot of Glenn Close, for about three seconds.Nov 9, 1985
The killer in Scott Turow's 1987 novel Presumed Innocent is Rusty's wife Barbera.
A television sequel, Innocent (2011), was based on Turow's 2010 sequel novel to Presumed Innocent. Set twenty years after the events of the 1990 film, the story follows Rusty Sabich (Bill Pullman), who is charged with the murder of his wife Barbara (Marcia Gay Harden).
40Alex states her age as 36, but Glenn Close was 40 during filming.
Plot. A masked intruder breaks into the beach house of San Francisco socialite Paige Forrester, ties her to her bed, rips open her shirt, and kills her with a hunting knife. Her husband Jack, arrested for her murder, tries to hire high-profile lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him.
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Rusty is handed the most personal case of his career when his boss and mentor, Chief Prosecuting Attorney Raymond Horgan, assigns him the case to discover who killed Carolyn, her dead body found in her apartment in what looks initially to be a violent rape, with Carolyn eventually strangled and no sign of forced entry, ...
Presumed Innocent is set in Kindle County. Kindle County is a fictional county, which is reportedly modeled on Cook County, the county in which...
1 In The Mood For Love (2000) - 8.1. Perhaps the most romantic movie ever made about having an affair features two characters who ultimately don't have one. In The Mood For Love takes place in 1960s Shanghai, where two lonely neighbors realize their partners are cheating on them.
A rare example of an erotic thriller nominated for the Best Picture Oscar is Fatal Attraction. The movie is directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Michael Douglas as Dan who, despite having a happy marriage, ends up involved in a passionate affair with Alex (Glenn Close in an Oscar-nominated performance).
After noticing some strange occurrences in their house, Norman's wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), discovers he had an affair with a woman who died and now is quite possibly haunting their house, which leads to more dark secrets coming to the surface.
Notes On A Scandal is a tragic tale of not only trusting the wrong people, but the potentially terrible repercussions an affair can have on a family and the people involved. For their roles, both Blanchett and Dench received Oscar nominations.
Based on the book, Notes On A Scandal revolves around Sheba ( Cate Blanchett) a teacher whose affair with a student is uncovered by another teacher Barbara (Judi Dench), who has a history of stalking. Unfortunately, lonely Barbara uses the secret to her advantage in order to manipulate Sheba.
Despite initial mixed reviews, An Affair To Remember has become known as one of the most romantic movies of all time. Referenced in such films as Sleepless in Seattle , An Affair To Remember shows audiences the enduring power of love, and that despite all obstacles, true love can sometimes find its way back to you somehow.
Told through omniscient narration, Little Children concerns Sarah ( Kate Winslet ) and Brad (Patrick Wilson), who find themselves having an affair after both being in an unhappy marriage. Sarah, the un-happy housewife, catches the attention of Brad, known as the "Prom King," who is married to a beautiful woman and relives his youth instead of maturing.
1. Harrison Ford , The Fugitive. Defense: “I didn’t kill my wife!”. There’s a very important rule when it comes to Harrison Ford movies: If it looks like he killed an innocent person (especially his wife), he did not kill that innocent person (especially his wife).
And that’s why she died, because of me.”#N#We’ll be able to debate this forever, but let’s just assume Andy Dufresne’s claims that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover are true. They seem pretty believable when delivered so convincingly to the patient, Oscar-nominated ears of Morgan Freeman, who plays fellow Shawshank State Prison inmate Red. Dufresne’s innocence, even if it’s all pretense, fuels his determination to escape prison via an elaborate, multi-decade plan. Let’s just … overlook his seeming willingness to accept that no one would ever find his wife’s true murderer.
Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in the world.”#N#For a late-1940s thriller, Dark Passage was surprisingly futuristic: Wrongfully convicted killer Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) escapes San Quentin in hopes of finding the true identity of his wife’s murderer — but instead of just hiding out in basement apartments à la Dr. Kimble, he gets a new face so as to search incognito. The disguise doesn’t work, and neither do his attempts to prove his innocence. But he and his new face end up in Paris with Lauren Bacall, so it’s all good anyway.