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Movies Like The Three Perfect Wives

If you liked The Three Perfect Wives (1953), a drama and romance movie directed by Roberto Gavaldón, 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. 1Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

  2. 2Unfaithful

    Unfaithful (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

  3. 3Adulterers

    Adulterers (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…

  4. 4The Ledge

    The Ledge (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

  5. 5The Red Thread

    The Red Thread (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.

  6. 6Not 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.

  7. 7Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    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.

  8. 8Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  9. 9Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…

  10. 10Notes on a Scandal

    Notes on a Scandal (2006)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

  11. 11In from the Side

    In from the Side (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Mark, a new and inexperienced rugby club member, finds himself drawn to Warren, a seasoned first team player. When a series of happenstances at an away fixture lead to a drunken encounter, Mark and Warren unwittingly…

  12. 12Last Night

    Last Night (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great…

  13. 13Butterfly on a Wheel

    Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

  14. 14Revolutionary Road

    Revolutionary Road (2008)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

  15. 15Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

  16. 16The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

  17. 17American Beauty

    American Beauty (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

  18. 18Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  19. 19The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  20. 20Hemingway & Gellhorn

    Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

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