Movies and TvShows featuring "woman-with-a-past" theme.
Marnie is a troubled young woman with a complicated past. She suffers from kleptomania and struggles with her identity. After she gets a new job as a secretary, her boss becomes suspicious of her behavior. As he digs deeper into her past, he discovers shocking secrets and the truth behind Marnie's disturbing actions.
A man falls in love with a woman he believes to be his mail-order bride, but soon discovers she is not who she claims to be. As their relationship unfolds, secrets are revealed, leading to a web of lies, murder, and a desperate search for the truth.
A woman named Martha Ivers has built a successful life for herself, but the weight of her dark past and the secrets she holds threaten to unravel everything. As a child, Martha witnessed a murder and her involvement in the crime has haunted her ever since. When her husband, Walter, discovers the truth, Martha will go to great lengths to keep her secrets buried, even if it means destroying those she loves.
Woman on the Beach (2006) is a movie about a film director who goes on a vacation with his friend, only to become involved in a love triangle with a mysterious woman they meet on the beach. As the story unfolds, the characters grapple with themes of love, friendship, existential loneliness, and the complexities of relationships.
In the bleak landscape of Minnesota, a series of murders occur that are linked to a dark secret from the past. As an investigation unfolds, a novice detective finds herself entangled in the sinister history of the region.
A mayoral candidate, who has a questionable past with a blackmailer, has to hide the truth from his wife. Chaos ensues when his fake wife comes into the picture and comedic situations unfold.
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
During a magic show, a British World War Two veteran is framed for murder and gets involved in espionage.
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
Carnival Story (1954) is a drama that takes place in a post-World War II carnival in Berlin, Germany. The story follows a timid and mute woman with a past who becomes involved with the circus strong man. When a murder confession leads to trouble, the carnival faces challenges of blackmail, sexual desire, and attempts of sabotage. Amidst all the chaos, relationships unravel and a love triangle develops.
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos. Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel, poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.
Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred
In a small fishing village in Alaska, a man gets involved in a romantic triangle while trying to save his cannery business from a ruthless business rival.
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.