Drop Out Wife (1972)

A young housewife gets involved by her husband in the “swinging” scene and discovers that it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. She starts loathing her husband and leaves home. She stays at her friend’s place and with her help, she starts dating other men. But in the end, she misses her kids and wants to be with them again, but her husband now hates her and wants a divorce.

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach (1992)

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at “Turtle Beach” where the refugees try to secretly land, in the hope that one day her own offsprings will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.