Movies and TvShows featuring "marital-desertion" theme.

In 1930s Paris, a chambermaid faces challenges and societal tensions as she works in a wealthy household. She encounters murder, rape, pedophilia, frigidity, and class differences. While dealing with racism and antisemitism, she also experiences a thunderstorm and heavy rain. Moving to the countryside, she encounters far-right ideologies and witnesses child rape. The film explores themes of fascism, marital desertion, sadism, and infidelity. Based on literature, it portrays the life of a chambermaid and the struggles she faces.

The Grasshopper follows the story of a 19-year-old girl who gets involved in prostitution, homosexuality, and other complex relationships in her search for happiness. Set in British Columbia, Canada, the film explores themes of friendship, redemption, and the downward spiral of a young woman's life.

Three women who were childhood friends end up on different paths in life. One becomes a successful socialite, one becomes a drug addict, and one becomes involved with a gangster. Their lives intersect again with dangerous consequences.

Daughters Courageous is a melodramatic romance that follows the lives of four sisters in Carmel, California. The film explores themes of lost love, holding grudges, and the complexities of family relationships. It takes place over a 20-year time span and showcases the struggles and triumphs of the sisters as they navigate through life and love.

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.

Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

A single bachelor, an oddly attractive neighbor and a popular women's magazine are the ingredients of this delicious romance that pays homage to classic Bollywood cinema while spinning a unique modern love story.

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.