La bonne (1986) aka The Corruption

1986

Beautiful Anna, a lawyer’s wife, feels abandoned by her husband, Giacomo. They live with his sick mother and she doesn’t like this. She badly wants to have a child, but she is infertile. She is very shy and introverted. Their maid, Angela is the opposite, and Anna grows closer to her. She convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games and gradually the two women begin a relationship which allows the wife to lose her […]

Hattie

Hattie (2011)

2011

Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad’s Army star John Le Mesurier. Married comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple,with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However,in 1963,after a charity fund raiser for leukaemia, Hattie meets the young […]

I'm Not Him

I Am Not Him (2013)

2013

He works in a kitchen in Istanbul. She is working with him. Her husband goes to jail. Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner […]

The 7.39 (TV Mini-Series) (2014)

2014

Carl Matthews commutes by train to London where he works in a property management office under a boss who is pressuring him to dismiss an employee. He has a kind and supportive wife Maggie and two teenage children who he feels do not appreciate him. One morning he complains to a woman called Sally that she has taken his seat on the train. He later apologizes to her and they start chatting, a relationship develops […]

Jamón, Jamón (1992)

1992

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis’ mother is determined to break her son’s engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

Tulip Fever (2017)

2017

An artist falls for a married young woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together. In 17th Century Amsterdam, an orphaned girl is forcibly married to a rich and powerful merchant — an unhappy arrangement that saves her from poverty. After her husband commissions a portrait, she begins a passionate affair with the painter. Seeking to escape the merchant’s ever-reaching […]

My Best Friend's Wife

My Best Friend’s Wife (1998) aka L’amico del cuore

1998

Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.