Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "husband-murders-his-wife's-lover"

1. Unfaithful (2002)

R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

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

Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan

Votes: 98,413 | Gross: $52.80M

2. Sleuth (1972)

PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews

Votes: 50,162 | Gross: $4.08M

3. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal

Votes: 30,829

4. Eating Raoul (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger

Votes: 9,174

5. Sleuth (2007)

R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 33,031 | Gross: $0.34M

6. The Quarry (2020)

R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A drifter (Shea Whigham) kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief (Michael Shannon) suspects foul play.

Director: Scott Teems | Stars: Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto

Votes: 3,636 | Gross: $0.00M

7. Human Desire (1954)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 6,345

8. Tales of Terror (1962)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage, Peter Lorre

Votes: 8,380

9. Deep Water (1981)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kljajic, Éric Frey

Votes: 1,078

10. Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019)

TV-MA | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A cop returns to the job. A serial killer too returns to the job.

Director: Daniel Calparsoro | Stars: Belén Rueda, Javier Rey, Aura Garrido, Manolo Solo

Votes: 6,197

11. The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)

R | 88 min | Horror

A young American family moves to a House in Kyoto, Japan. It turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and her lover, who were killed by the woman's husband, as well as the ghost of the husband, who killed himself afterward.

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure, Amy Barrett

Votes: 1,388

12. Dear Murderer (1947)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed

Votes: 1,112

13. Terror Tract (2000)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.

Directors: Lance W. Dreesen, Clint Hutchison | Stars: John Ritter, David DeLuise, Allison Smith, Kim Correll

Votes: 1,912

14. Laia (2016 TV Movie)

84 min | Drama

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Director: Lluís Danés | Stars: Miranda Gas, Ivan Benet, Roger Casamajor, Miquel Fernández

Votes: 113

15. Effi Briest (1974)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm

Votes: 2,697

16. Terrified (1995)

R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.

Director: James Merendino | Stars: Heather Graham, Lisa Zane, Paul Herman, Rustam Branaman

Votes: 667

17. Tödliche Versuchung (2013 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Johannes Fabrick | Stars: Julia Koschitz, Marcus Mittermeier, Lara Sophie Rottmann, Patrick Geller

Votes: 115

18. Shredded (2000 Video)

78 min | Horror

A man discovers his wife cheating on him and takes brutal revenge.

Director: Heini Grünbaum | Stars: Thomas Bo Larsen, Josephine Akvama, Michael Brendstrup, Tusnelda Frellesvig

Votes: 310

19. The Forest (1982)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.

Director: Don Jones | Stars: Dean Russell, Gary Kent, Tomi Barrett, John Batis

Votes: 1,576

20. The Big Picture (2010)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Thriller

A successful Paris lawyer is forced to re-invent his life after he makes a fatal mistake.

Director: Éric Lartigau | Stars: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic

Votes: 3,732 | Gross: $0.16M

21. Acid of Love (2005)

Romance

Niha is married to rich, successful businessman Shekar. One day when Niha is out shopping, she is unable to find taxi during storm, she meets young handsome Rahoul who offers her shelter at his apartment. Niha began an affair with Rahoul.

Director: Shakeel Noorani | Stars: Shruti Sharma, Mighty Khan, Parvin Dabas, Raj Chokani

Votes: 12

22. W.E.I.R.D. World (1995 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses ... See full summary »

Director: William Malone | Stars: Dana Ashbrook, Marshall Bell, Audie England, Paula Marshall

Votes: 187

23. Hot Acts of Love (1975)

R | 90 min | Thriller

Francis and Patrick Baumel are two brothers who are heirs of a newspaper. When Patrick discovers Laurence, the wife of his brother, in the arms of Paul, the editor-in-chief, he is killed.

Director: Jean-Marie Pallardy | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Michel Lemoine, Jean Luisi

Votes: 56

24. Chains (1949)

74 min | Crime, Drama

First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo

Votes: 470

25. The Hunter (1998)

88 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Osman is a jealous and proud gentleman. Zala, who must have married him at a young age is unhappy. Avci, caught in a storm and had to take refuge in his hut, is an attractive young man who knows how to take advantage of his environment.

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Fikret Kuskan, Ahmet Ugurlu, Jale Arikan, Erol Demiröz

Votes: 129

26. Boots Oyson: sa katawan mo ... aagos ang dugo! (1989)

Action, Drama

THIS ACTION-DRAMA TACKLES BIG-TIME CRIME.

Director: Joey Del Rosario | Stars: Lito Lapid, Vic Vargas, Maria Isabel Lopez, Lito Legaspi

27. The Mirror (1984)

88 min | Drama, Romance

A man who killed the son of the owner of the land they worked on for hanging on his wife, bury him in the barn. From this moment on, a spiritually tense process begins for the man and his wife.

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Nur Sürer, Suavi Eren, Hikmet Çelik, Vasilis Tsaglos

Votes: 116

28. Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode: Last Video and Testament (1984)

72 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped last will and testament - with a sadistic twist.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Deborah Raffin, David Langton, Oliver Tobias, Christopher Scoular

Votes: 143

29. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Man on the Edge (1987)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A desperate man threatens to jump from his hotel window. In hopes of changing his mind, a dedicated police negotiator tries to get him to tell him the reason why. He won't like the answer.

Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Mark Hamill, Michael Ironside, David B. Nichols

Votes: 113

30. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: There Was a Little Girl... (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Young unscrupulous seductress tries to seduce and murder her rich stepfather but her mother has a different plan.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Tucker, Kate Vernon, Wanda Cannon

Votes: 130

31. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Jamalot (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A female roller derby team member dies during a game. At first glance, it seems that she was trampled to death. However, autopsy reveals that she died from heating up from the inside. The ... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Glassner | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 322

32. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: The Samurai (1994)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A descendant of one of Duncan's teachers comes to him claiming a long-ago promise of help, that pits Duncan against cruel Immortal Michael Kent.

Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Philip Akin, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 223

33. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode: Lovesounds (1984)

TV-MA | 29 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Handsome audio engineer Eric Dunlap hired to install his strange top notch sound system with a mind of its own for an egotistical music conductor Kurt Hoffman, but falls hard for Hoffman's beautiful, neglected wife Veronica.

Director: David Wickes | Stars: Page Fletcher, Belinda Bauer, Klaus Kinski, Ron Lea

Votes: 121

34. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode: Secrets (1991)

TV-MA | 24 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A woman and her lover try to get her husband's insurance money after he suffers a deadly accident. However, they get an unexpected visitor.

Director: Jacques Richard | Stars: Mary Frann, Daniel Briquet, Frédéric Norbert, Page Fletcher

Votes: 39

35. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Guarded Secrets (2008)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

When a security guard disappeared from work without a trace, investigators couldn't determine if he left willingly or if foul play was involved. But homicide was confirmed when the body was... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Jennifer Campbell, Sammy Cesare, Ian R. Gleason

Votes: 69

36. Marple (2004–2013)
Episode: The Secret of Chimneys (2010)

TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An attempt to bring a famed stately home back to its former glory is marred when a visiting Austrian diplomat is shot to death decades after the disappearance of a priceless diamond.

Director: John Strickland | Stars: Julia McKenzie, Ian Weichardt, Laura O'Toole, Robert Dunbar

Votes: 1,285

37. Historic Hauntings (2018)
Episode: Wales (2018)

History

Deep in Wales' long memory is a history of violence and bloody curses. Acts of treachery and vengeance leave their stain within Wales' haunted castles.

Star: Robert Hardy

Votes: 6

38. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Stealing Home (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Three dysfunctional siblings fight over ownership of their deceased mother's house, while the CSIs investigate the disappearance of the wife of one of the siblings.

Director: Alec Smight | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 682

39. Quarry (2016)
Episode: You Don't Miss Your Water (2016)

TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Coming back home from Vietnam, two soldiers, struggling to find jobs and getting back to normal life, are approached by the mysterious 'Broker' with an interesting offer.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini

Votes: 977