Movies like Lake Consequence
If Lake Consequence's mix of adultery, infidelity and midlife crisis stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Lake Consequence's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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American Beauty
1999 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, midlife crisis, love affair · From the same decade (1990s)
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.
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Brief Encounter
1945 · Directed by David Lean · 86 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: infidelity, love affair · Also 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.
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Notes on a Scandal
2006 · Directed by Richard Eyre · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, infidelity · Also 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.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Directed by Tay Garnett · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, infidelity · Also drama and romance
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Revolutionary Road
2008 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 119 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, infidelity · Also 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.
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Unfaithful
2002 · Directed by Adrian Lyne · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, infidelity · Also drama and romance
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Titanic
1997 · Directed by James Cameron · 194 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Billy Zane · Shares: love affair · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1990s)
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · Directed by Glenn Ficarra · 118 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: midlife crisis, love affair · Also drama and romance
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been…
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Little Children
2006 · Directed by Todd Field · 137 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also drama and romance
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
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Lolita
1962 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 154 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: midlife crisis
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
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Faces
1968 · Directed by John Cassavetes · 130 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery
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.