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Movies Like Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

If you liked Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), a drama movie directed by Tyler Perry, 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. 1Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black

    Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Ava, a young bank professional is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes, revealing Dallas' wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once…

  2. 2Addicted

    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.

  3. 3Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  4. 4Faces

    Faces (1968)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Middle-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…

  5. 5Deep 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.

  6. 6Derailed

    Derailed (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

  7. 7Higher Ground

    Higher Ground (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, a tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith, love, and trust - in human relationships as…

  8. 8Adulterers

    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…

  9. 9The 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.

  10. 10The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…

  11. 11A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  12. 12Crime of Passion

    Crime of Passion (1956)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a…

  13. 13Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  14. 14Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also 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.

  15. 15The Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  16. 16American 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.

  17. 17The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who…

  18. 18Sleeping with the Enemy

    Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

  19. 19Die My Love

    Die My Love (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…

  20. 20Dream 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…

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