Movies About The Other Women
by karolina-husky | created - 21 Jan 2018 | updated - 10 Mar 2018 | PublicMovies to watch concerning 'the other women' and infidelity. These movies are a good watch if you have cheated or been cheated on, to help you process and understand the situation at hand. They vary from drama to comedy.
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1. She-Devil (1989)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Hunt
Votes: 19,063 | Gross: $15.35M
Although it's easy to blame and dislike the other women, at the end of the day, men are the ones that played you. This movie also reminds you that 'if he cheated ones, even for you, he will cheat again'. Shown in a great 80s comedy, Meryl Streep learns that 'men wh burn so hot for a mistress, cool out fast when the mistress starts acting like a wife'.
2. Someone Like You (2001)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
After being jilted by her boyfriend, a talk show talent scout writes a column on the relationship habits of men which gains her national fame.
Director: Tony Goldwyn | Stars: Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 27,447 | Gross: $27.34M
After being the other women and then being left by him for his girlfriend, Judd's character cobbles together her cow theory from snippets of real science reports and bits of biology books. Its prime proposition takes shape when she reads that bulls refuse to copulate with a cow they have already mated with, even when researchers disguise the old cow with the scent of a new one. New-cow theory posits that all males will leave all females eventually because their biological imperative is to find the new cow. Voila, all relationships are eventually doomed, bull-based balm to dumped damsels.
3. Sliding Doors (1998)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.
Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 71,481 | Gross: $11.88M
About the women who has been cheated on, Sliding Doors is a film about the little “what ifs” bunching together in mundane ordinary life until they have enormous individual consequences. This movie will give you hope and let you understand that some things are inevitable. Touches upon the concept talked about in Mr Nobody, “Every path is the right path, everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning”.
4. The Other Woman (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
After discovering that her boyfriend is married, Carly meets the wife he's been betraying; when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot revenge on the three-timing S.O.B.
Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Votes: 150,058 | Gross: $83.91M
Comedy that united women (both the wife and the other women). Because at the end of the day it wasn’t the other women that ruined your relationship and is to be blamed for it, it is the shithead of a partner that promised to love you but lied to you behind your back.
5. Anna Karenina (I) (2012)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen
Votes: 106,502 | Gross: $12.82M
6. Last Night (I) (2010)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Massy Tadjedin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet
Votes: 50,641 | Gross: $0.10M
7. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 111,954 | Gross: $3.45M
8. The English Patient (1996)
R | 162 min | Drama, Romance, War
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 200,806 | Gross: $78.65M
9. The Women (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.
Director: Diane English | Stars: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Annette Bening, Debra Messing
Votes: 23,079 | Gross: $26.90M
10. Serious Moonlight (2009)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.
Director: Cheryl Hines | Stars: Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell, Justin Long
Votes: 8,868 | Gross: $0.03M
11. Addicted to Love (1997)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Maggie's and Sam's former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple.
Director: Griffin Dunne | Stars: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tchéky Karyo
Votes: 25,723 | Gross: $34.66M
12. Working Girl (1988)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 62,389 | Gross: $64.00M
13. The First Wives Club (1996)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith
Votes: 54,208 | Gross: $105.49M
14. Match Point (2005)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Votes: 228,023 | Gross: $23.09M
15. Girls Trip (2017)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Director: Malcolm D. Lee | Stars: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish
Votes: 40,467 | Gross: $115.17M
Shows a woman moving on from her cheating husband and rebuilding her friendship with her best friends. Also teaches you that if he cheated once, he will cheat again, and there are so many loyal, nice guys out there so stop wasting your time holding on and move on...
16. Big Little Lies (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The apparently-perfect lives of upper-class mothers of students at a prestigious elementary school unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint California beach town.
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Adam Scott
Votes: 224,121
17. The Prince of Tides (1991)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 19,718 | Gross: $74.79M
18. Alfie (2004)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon, Renée Taylor
Votes: 54,965 | Gross: $13.40M
Tells a story about a womaniser who learns the hard truth about being an asshole.
19. The Choice (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Alexandra Daddario, Maggie Grace
Votes: 45,778 | Gross: $18.71M
Because sometimes the person you cheat with is the one and although you've met at the wrong time of your life and you end up hearing a third person, love makes everything fine.
20. Something Borrowed (2011)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Friendships are tested and secrets come to the surface when terminally single Rachel falls for Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé.
Director: Luke Greenfield | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, John Krasinski
Votes: 65,239 | Gross: $39.05M
21. Falling in Love (1984)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Although they live married lives, two strangers keep running into each other, starting a friendship that could blossom into so much more.
Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek
Votes: 15,424 | Gross: $10.60M
22. Heartburn (1986)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 12,553 | Gross: $25.31M
23.
Girlboss (2017)
Episode:
The Launch
(2017)
TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy
In the aftermath of her shocking discovery, Sophia's attention is divided between the 'Nasty Gal' website launch and her relationship with Shane.
Director: Christian Ditter | Stars: Britt Robertson, Ellie Reed, Johnny Simmons, Alphonso McAuley
Votes: 301
24. What's New Pussycat (1965)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
Votes: 11,059 | Gross: $18.82M
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