Lægen Walter Fane bliver gift med den smukke Kitty, der kommer fra en prominent familie. Walters arbejde fører dem til Shanghai, hvor Kitty indleder et forhold til den britiske vicekonsul Charles. Da Walter opdager Kittys affære, så melder han sig frivilligt til at arbejde i en kinesisk landsby ramt af kolera. Det daglige arbejde i landsbyen sætter parrets forhold i perspektiv og giver deres liv ny mening.
I slutningen af det 19. århundredes England stræber Jude efter at være akademiker, men er hæmmet af sin blåkravebaggrund. I stedet arbejder han som stenhugger og er fanget i et ukærligt ægteskab med en bondedatter ved navn Arabella. Men da hans kone forlader ham, ser Jude en mulighed for at forbedre sig. Han flytter til byen og indleder en affære med sin gifte kusine, Sue, og bejler til tragedier hvert skridt på vejen.
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Under et ophold ved Amalfi-kysten og dens romantiske omgivelser er unge Jane (Kate Bosworth) på jagt efter mere i livet end sin stilfærdige ægtemand (Ido Goldberg), som hun elsker, men føler sig mindre og mindre forbundet til. Hendes arbejde - at skrive sin bedstemors memoirer - får hende til at fordybe sig i byen og de smukke øers skønhed, og så møder hun tilmed en skøn fyr (Jamie Blackley), som ikke holder sig tilbage. Hvad skal Jane dog gøre?
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Vi befinder os i Stockholm i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede. Da den unge journalistspire Arvid Stjärnblom og den smukke kunstnerdatter Lydia Stille mødes for første gang, forelsker de sig brat i hinanden. Men Arvid har ingen penge, og den beskedne arv fra sin pludselig afdøde far efterlader ikke Lydia med andet valg, end at gifte sig med en væsentlig ældre rigmand. Så da den kønne, velhavende Dagmar begynder at gøre kur til Arvid, gifter de sig og stifter familie. Men Arvid og Lydias lidenskabelige kærlighed dæmpes ikke med årene, og da Lydia er på juleophold i Stockholm, indleder de to en affære. Men deres jagt på lykken får uforudsete og fatale konsekvenser. Pernilla Augusts ’Den alvorsfulde leg’ er et stilrent, historisk melodrama, og Lone Scherfig har loyalt og med sproglig præcision adapteret Hjalmar Söderbergs roman af samme navn til det store lærred.
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
Chi Soo is struggling to survive medical school life due to his family situation. In his school days, Chi Soo lived in his old friend Song Eun Cheol's house, but naturally became close to Song Eun Soo, Eun Chul's younger sister, and they got married. However, love too is brief... In his second year of marriage Chi Soo experiences a period of ennui, and meets Monica Jeong (Jeong Soo Hee). Monica Jeong impersonated herself as an international lawyer in the United States and came to Korea, and introduced herself as the only child of a wealthy family.
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Twenty-year-old Kamal has been married for a few months but his wife is still a virgin. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor, Kamal sets off to town to search for another woman. The city is full of them but Kamal is still unable to meet anyone, until a chance encounter on a bus. But it looks as if this accidental meeting will take Kamal much farther than he was prepared to go… By the director of ‘Angel on the Right’. —Celluloid Dreams
Christine is a university guidance counsellor trapped in a loveless marriage. Leo, her husband, a cruel and vicious politician refuses to set Christine free as he needs her when he runs for public office and hires Orlando, a private detective to get solid evidence against Christine's infidelity.