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Movies Like A Wife Confesses

If you liked A Wife Confesses (1961), a drama and mystery movie directed by Yasuzō Masumura, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also mystery and drama

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

  2. 2Possession

    Possession (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of…

  3. 3Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  4. 4Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and mystery

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  5. 5Match Point

    Match Point (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and…

  6. 6Dot the I

    Dot the I (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and drama

    A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.

  7. 7Persuasion

    Persuasion (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening…

  8. 8Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  9. 9Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery and drama

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  10. 10Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  11. 11The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

  12. 12The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  13. 13Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  14. 14A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun (1951)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

  15. 15Northanger Abbey

    Northanger Abbey (2007)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and drama

    A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

  16. 16Sleuth

    Sleuth (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

  17. 17The Postman Always Rings Twice

    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

  18. 18In Secret

    In Secret (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…

  19. 19Where the Crawdads Sing

    Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and mystery

    Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the…

  20. 20Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

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