Films about the abuse of his wife

Films about the abuse of his wife
List of the best films about the abuse of his wife, selected by visitors to our site: The Color Purple, Let Him Go, The Bride of Frankenstein, Waitress, Amores perros, Intolerable Cruelty, The Bucket List, Sleepers, Awake, W.E..

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:34

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:12

Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryMexico
Duration02:33

Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:59

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration01:46

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:53

Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuscia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
Duration02:20

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:51

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit of a loser).

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:44

Eager to start afresh, the unsuspecting couple of Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville. However, right from the very first night, strange paranormal experiences shatter the Montellis' fantasy, as the restless spirits of the dead and the new home's dark secrets open the unfathomable black portal of hell. Now, the family's older child, Sonny, has become the perfect vessel of destruction, as the invisible demonic forces claim his soul. Can Father Frank Adamsky cleanse the infernal Amityville House?

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountrySweden

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySpain
Duration01:41

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:34

    A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
    Duration02:21

    A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:57

    An inventive crime thriller told backwards -- reversing day by day through a week -- following a local sheriff's quest to unlock the mystery of three small town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:10

    A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:35

    A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Erin Bell is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

      A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:25

      During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood, and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings, where saving lives comes second to the bottom line.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:58

      Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

        Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

          Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:35

          In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the "courage never to submit or yield."

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryFrance, USA
          Duration02:08

          Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA

          Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          A desperate housewife discovers her husband is having an affair and kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress, but what starts as a prank quickly spirals out of control.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

          Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration03:11

            Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.




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