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The Best Movies About Infidelity

Updated January 6, 2021 3.3k votes 1.3k voters 294.8k views83 items

List RulesVote up your favorite movies that deal with infidelity and adultery.

The films on this list are the most famous infidelity movies of all time, so use it to find some movies that you haven't seen already that have cheating husbands and wives. Click on these cheating movies for more information about the films and step out with the best TV shows about cheating. This tempting list features movies like Fatal Attraction and Unfaithful. But which one is the best? You get to help decide by voting up your favorite cheating movies.

This list also answers the questions, "What are the best infidelity movies?" and "What is the greatest infidelity movie of all time?"

Various bits of information are included with these popular infidelity movies, such as who directed them, when they were released and who starred in the films. Whether you're watching these infidelity movies on Netflix or other streaming services, these good infidelity movies can be enjoyed no matter what.

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Unfaithful
2002
Actors: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Michelle Monaghan, Erik Per Sullivan, Michael Emerson
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
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Fatal Attraction
1987
Actors: Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Jane Krakowski, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
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American Beauty
1999
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Mena Suvari, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper
Directed by: Sam Mendes
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Indecent Proposal
1993
Actors: Demi Moore, Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Connolly
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
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The Graduate
1967
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Richard Dreyfuss, Katharine Ross, Norman Fell
Directed by: Mike Nichols
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What Lies Beneath
2000
Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Amber Valletta, Miranda Otto, Joe Morton
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
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Closer
2004
Actors: Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Colin Stinton
Directed by: Mike Nichols
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A Walk on the Moon
1999
Actors: Anna Paquin, Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Lisa Jakub
Directed by: Tony Goldwyn
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Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Kubrick, Alan Cumming, Leelee Sobieski
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
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To Die For
1995
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck, George Segal
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
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Love Actually
2003
Actors: Keira Knightley, Elisha Cuthbert, Liam Neeson, January Jones, Denise Richards
Directed by: Richard Curtis
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The Other Woman
2014
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, Nicki Minaj, Leslie Mann, Don Johnson
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
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Last Night
2010
Actors: Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington, Anson Mount, Guillaume Canet
Directed by: Massy Tadjedin
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Revolutionary Road
2008
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn
Directed by: Sam Mendes
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A Perfect Murder
1998
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Douglas, David Suchet, Will Lyman
Directed by: Andrew Davis
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Actors: Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Carrey, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood
Directed by: Michel Gondry
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Anna Karenina
2012
Actors: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Cara Delevingne, Michelle Dockery, Kelly Macdonald
Directed by: Joe Wright
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A Little Sex
1982
Actors: Wendie Malick, Wallace Shawn, Kate Capshaw, Tim Matheson, Frankie Faison
Directed by: Bruce Paltrow
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Terms of Endearment
1983
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, John Lithgow, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Daniels
Directed by: James L. Brooks
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The Last Seduction
1994
Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Peter Berg, Dean Norris, J. T. Walsh
Directed by: John Dahl
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Lucy in the Sky
2019
Actors: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson
Directed by: Noah Hawley
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Little Children
2006
Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Noah Emmerich
Directed by: Todd Field
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Bound
1996
Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Christopher Meloni, Joe Pantoliano, Richard C. Sarafian
Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
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The Descendants
2011
Actors: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Beau Bridges
Directed by: Alexander Payne
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The Soft Skin
1964
Actors: Françoise Dorléac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean Desailly
Directed by: François Truffaut

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