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Movies Like Married Life

If you liked Married Life (2008), a crime and drama movie directed by Ira Sachs, 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. 1Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime 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…

  2. 2Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  3. 3Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    ★ 8/10Also crime and drama

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

  4. 4Blind

    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.

  5. 5Notorious

    Notorious (1946)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is…

  6. 6Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…

  7. 7Not 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.

  8. 8Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  9. 9Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  10. 10The 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.

  11. 11Dot 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.

  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. 13The 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.

  14. 14Insomnia

    Insomnia (2002)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and drama

    Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

  15. 15Sunrise: 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.

  16. 16The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

  17. 17Out of Time

    Out of Time (2003)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force…

  18. 18Gaslight

    Gaslight (1944)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime

    A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

  19. 19Goodbye Again

    Goodbye Again (1961)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a…

  20. 20The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…

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