Movies Like Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)
If you liked Donden Family (Pretend Divorce), a movie directed by Yusuke Narita, 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.
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The War of the Roses (1989)
★ 6.9/10Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house…
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Petulia (1968)
★ 6/10Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's…
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2021)
★ 6.4/10In a rural Utah town, David, a father of four, grapples with his separation from wife Nikki as she pursues a new relationship.
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She-Devil (1989)
★ 6/10A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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Nothing in Common (1986)
★ 5.9/10A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
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One Fine Day (1996)
★ 6.5/10Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets…
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Switching Channels (1988)
★ 6.1/10A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
★ 6.9/10Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to…
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Cousins (1989)
★ 6/10When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the tables on them by pretending to have an affair. However, they soon find themselves falling in love.
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Happy Hour (2015)
★ 7.4/10Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want…
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The Marriage Circle (1924)
★ 6.4/10An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
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Faces (1968)
★ 7.1/10Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the…
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
★ 7.6/10Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself…
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The Other Woman (2014)
★ 6.4/10After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
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The First Wives Club (1996)
★ 6.7/10After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a…
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Funny Girl (1968)
★ 7.1/10The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
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Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
★ 6.4/10Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered…
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The Last Five Years (2014)
★ 5.8/10In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
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Heartburn (1986)
★ 6/10She'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.
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The One I Love (2014)
★ 6.9/10Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.