THEME EXPLORATION

infidelity and marital conflict

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
La boutique
La boutique
1967 · Luis García Berlanga
Sound of the Mountain
Sound of the Mountain
1954 · Mikio Naruse
Monamour
Monamour
2005 · Tinto Brass
My Brother’s Wife
My Brother’s Wife
1966 · Doris Wishman
The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle
1924 · Ernst Lubitsch
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Lars von Trier
Chinese Roulette
Chinese Roulette
1976 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I Am the Other Woman
I Am the Other Woman
2006 · Margarethe von Trotta
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 · Peter Greenaway
Jerichow
Jerichow
2009 · Christian Petzold
Forever Mine
Forever Mine
1999 · Paul Schrader
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Claude Chabrol France

His films obsessively dissect bourgeois infidelity and marital betrayal with dark psychological precision, making it his signature thematic obsession.

 Ingmar Bergman Sweden

He explores infidelity and marriage breakdown with raw emotional intensity and philosophical depth, examining desire and commitment as existential crises.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His visually lush films capture the melancholy of infidelity and emotional distance within relationships through fragmented narratives and poetic alienation.