Movies and TvShows featuring "absent-husband" theme.

Two people let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

The open market worker Carlota Losano is an uneducated, kind and explosive woman, known by everyone as the Penny Lady. Good-hearted and a woman of unparalleled optimism, she got her nickname for giving out what is left from her stand to the poor. Uneducated and abandoned by her husband, Esmeraldino, the Penny Lady plays the role of mother and father, working double to guarantee a dignified future for her children, Édison and Rosália.

In 19th-century rural England, a young woman named Katherine is sold into an arranged marriage with a middle-aged man. Unhappy and trapped in a loveless marriage, Katherine engages in a secret and passionate affair with a stablehand, leading to deadly consequences.

After being declared dead, a woman's missing husband suddenly reappears. As she investigates his reappearance, she discovers a disturbing world filled with ancient myths, creatures, and dark secrets.

Lovesong tells the story of Sarah and Mindy, two friends who embark on a spontaneous road trip together. As they travel, their deep connection is tested as they navigate through their own desires and fears. The film explores themes of love, friendship, and the complexities of relationships.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

The Glass Menagerie is a heartfelt drama that explores the struggles of a single mother and her two children in St. Louis, Missouri during the Great Depression. The story revolves around the fragile relationship between a southern belle with a physical disability and her shy daughter, as they navigate the challenges of family relationships, unfulfilled dreams, and the harsh realities of life.

Set in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War, a mother and daughter find themselves haunted by a malevolent presence in their apartment. As the war rages on outside, they are forced to confront the evil that lurks within their home.

Angel is a comedy-drama set in London, focusing on the life of a neglected wife, Angelica 'Angel' Harroway. She finds herself falling in love with a talented violinist named Anthony Halton. The story explores Angel's internal struggle between her loyalty to her husband and her desire for a passionate romance.

Set in 1950s Saigon, the film follows the story of a young girl named Mui, who works as a servant in a wealthy household. As she navigates her life in the city, she experiences love, loss, and the challenges of being a woman in a society marked by social and political turmoil. The film is a poetic exploration of the human experience, told through beautiful visuals and atmospheric storytelling.

Chunhyang, the daughter of a courtesan, falls in love with Mongryong, the son of a nobleman, and they secretly marry. However, their love faces numerous challenges, including class differences, disapproval from their families, and the interference of a greedy provincial governor. Chunhyang remains faithful to Mongryong despite being tortured and imprisoned. Eventually, their love triumphs and they reunite, proving that true love can overcome all obstacles.

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well follows the lives of four seemingly ordinary individuals in Seoul, Korea, whose lives are intertwined by infidelity, hopelessness, and troubled marriages. As they navigate through their own personal struggles, their paths cross and their secrets are exposed, leading to a series of unexpected consequences.

A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.

A small-town doctor's life takes a dark turn when he becomes infatuated with a manipulative woman. As he becomes entangled in a web of lies, deceit, and paranoia, he must face the consequences of his actions.

Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After energetically courting her, Mattie marries Trax, who before long brings home a young woman to be their housekeeper, but it is obvious that she is to be his mistress. When Trax leaves on business, the two women each contemplate how they are being exploited and Mattie comes up with a plan of her own.