French films about cheating wives

List of the best French films about cheating wife according to visitors: Leaving, Unfaithful, Queen of Hearts, On a Magical Night, Bright Days Ahead, All About Them, Curiosa, Under a False Name, The Big Picture, The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man.

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

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:25

Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, USA
Duration02:04

    Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden
    Duration01:56

    Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg

    After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:34

    Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:51

    Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Mélodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Mélodie. For Mélodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies. And is in love with both of them at the same time.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:38

    A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryItaly, France, Luxembourg
    Duration01:45

    A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:54

    Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryDenmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, France
    Duration01:40

    A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a passionate relationship.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Africa, France, Germany
    Duration01:39

    François van Heerden, a mid-40's, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration01:40

    In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, music
    CountryGermany, France

    Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexander, in whom she alone sees great talent. She devotes much energy and attention preparing him for the next stage exam to prove she was right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into rivalry. At the same time her marriage is collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from her own family and starts an affair with her colleague Christian, who is encouraging her to join a quartet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts. With Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn...

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly, France, USA

    An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experiences trouble when the wife invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:50

    France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover ...

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryFrance

    A mother, herself retired from the police, embarks on an underground exploration of Paris to find her daughter, a missing investigator on a mission.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
    Duration01:47

    Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg

    This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both turn to sexual liason's to ease their tension. Bruno ends up enacting a dark sexual fantasy with a stranger while Fabienne eventually succumbs to the advances of Bruno's friend Simon, a fortyish Lebanese businessman and part-time drug dealer. The comedy takes on overtones of psycho-drama when the contest winner announced and the couple discovers the truth of each other's actions. A cache of drugs, discovered in an apartment only adds to their troubles.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:48

    A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Canada, Spain
    Duration01:59

    An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:53

    Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications ...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg

    Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, France

    French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:32

    Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During his travels, he has a strange encounter with Marylou, a wild teenager who was rejected by her mother. The lost girl and the man at the end of his tether will travel together awhile. Finally living like a father and daughter, at peace.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUSA, Iceland, France

    An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:52

    An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:25

    The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Morocco

    In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance

    Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:47

    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:44

    After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Austria, France, Canada, Brazil, USA
    Duration01:50

    Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerizing narrative.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:36

    Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them, they are going to have to speak to each other.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:33

    Covers the love affair between French actress Arletty and a high-ranking German officer during WWII in occupied France.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:38

    A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:00

    A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryNetherlands, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:04

    The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:17

    A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Malta, USA
    Duration01:11

    Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany

    Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:50

    Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
    Duration02:00

    While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:52

    Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:15

    Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...




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