adultery

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adultery

Lady Chatterley's lover

Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage, and when she meets the new gamekeeper at her husband's estate, she finds herself experiencing true love for the first time.

Anna Karenina

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Manhattan

New Yorker Isaac Davis hates his job, doesn't love his girlfriend, and his ex-wife is a lesbian who has written a book about their marriage. Then he meets and falls in lust with a beautiful woman, which starts him on a search for romance and fulfillment.

Madame Bovary

The desires and illusions of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor in mid-nineteenth-century France, are shattered when reality catches up with her.

The scarlet letter

Hester Prynne, a young wife in colonial New England, is sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing, as a public acknowledgement of her sin of adultery.

The scarlet letter

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adulteress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin. Includes a selection of study aids.

The scarlet letter

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

Roses red as blood

2017
Julie Benson's life spirals out of control when her normally level-headed fiance returns from a business trip and viciously accuses her of cheating on him.

The night in question

2018
When Paula picks up her last passenger of the night, all she sees is a few more dollars to put toward her husband's medical bills. That's before she recognizes the quiet stranger in her back seat as a world-famous musician and realizes the woman waiting at his destination is not his equally famous wife. So, Paula does what any down-on-her-luck woman would do.
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The first to know

2017
When Dana secretly does a DNA test for her father, hoping to locate some distant relatives, what she discovers is another family, and a kind of deception that tears everyone apart.
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