Movies and TvShows featuring "submissive-wife" theme.

Delia, a woman in post-war Italy, plans an act of rebellion to free herself from her abusive and violent husband, bravely challenging the patriarchal society.

Four-part drama based on the extraordinary story of how prison officer John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons.

Scenes from a Marriage is a Swedish drama TV show that explores the disintegration of a marriage in the 1970s. It delves into themes of love, infidelity, divorce, and the struggles faced by a dysfunctional couple.

A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.

In 1970s France, a dutiful housewife named Paulette realizes she can no longer ignore the oppressive and sexist behaviors in her life. When she discovers a deeply-held secret about her late husband, Paulette must confront her own desires and learn to assert herself in a world that constantly tries to silence her.

Murina is a coming-of-age drama that follows a teenage girl living on a remote island in the Adriatic Sea. She struggles with her father's emotional abuse and her submissive role in their family dynamic. As she explores the island and the ocean, she discovers her love for swimming and underwater photography. Through her journey, she finds empowerment and breaks free from the oppressive environment.

In Big Bad Wolf, a teenager and his friends find themselves being hunted by a ferocious werewolf. As the creature terrorizes the group, they must fight to survive and find a way to stop the bloodshed. With suspenseful chase scenes and shocking moments, the film brings the urban legend of the werewolf to life.

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.

After a tragic loss, a family migrates to the city. Three decades later, they return to their hometown, leading to the resurfacing of buried emotions and painful secrets.

Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen year old Ariella commits a grave error that her father isn't willing to punish her for. Seeking a punishment of her own, Ariella embarks on a dark quest where she will discover a secret to her father's past that will lead them to confront one another.

Oda is a cowardly and boring man, his only redeeming feature being his diligence. He continues to live with his wife, Ayane, but they can't seem to produce children and are troubled as to whether their relationship will survive. One evening Oda returns home to find a pair of blue toy handcuffs hanging on the doorknocker. Using them, Oda humiliates Ayane. Although bewildered at first, Ayane begins to respond, and Oda becomes increasing excited as he sexually assaults her. In truth, the blue handcuffs were Ayane's contrivance. There was a time in the past when she used to reach climax...

A family living in a country cottage is torn apart by manipulation, deceit, and murder. The daughter plots to kill her overbearing father with the help of her manipulative mother, leading to a series of shocking events. As secrets unravel, the family's dark past is exposed, revealing the true horrors that lie within.

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.

A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct new voice from a promising young director. Hattu soon reveals that Maite’s husband Vincent is in prison for an unspecified crime, and that she has promised to wait for him and attend to his laundry (if not his conjugal needs) during his incarceration. On one of her weekly visits, Maite meets Jean, an oddly inquisitive and boldly flirtatious prison warden, and soon the two commence a joyless affair. Seemingly smitten with Maite, Jean, in a gesture of kindness to his lover, eases up on her husband behind bars; the two become pals and even engage in some homoerotic shower talk. —Robert O’Shaughnessy

It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Český Šternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.