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1. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein

Votes: 291,245 | Gross: $219.20M

2. 17 Again (2009)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.

Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon

Votes: 216,510 | Gross: $64.17M

3. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.

Director: Darren Grant | Stars: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Tyler Perry, Cicely Tyson

Votes: 15,853 | Gross: $50.63M

4. Waiting to Exhale (1995)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.

Director: Forest Whitaker | Stars: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon

Votes: 12,209 | Gross: $67.05M

5. Three Colors: White (1994)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr

Votes: 79,679 | Gross: $1.46M

6. Changing Lanes (2002)

R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller

A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette

Votes: 74,670 | Gross: $66.82M

7. Happy Hour (2015)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura

Votes: 2,955

8. Wanda (1970)

GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes

Votes: 5,711 | Gross: $0.05M

9. Divorce American Style (1967)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy

Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds star as a suburban couple who learn that not even divorce can solve all their problems.

Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons

Votes: 1,885 | Gross: $12.00M

10. Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams

Votes: 3,537

11. Babs (2017 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

A drama about the life and career of actress Barbara Windsor.

Director: Dominic Leclerc | Stars: Samantha Spiro, Charlie Archer, Nick Moran, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 661

12. My 5 Wives (2000)

R | 100 min | Comedy

After his third divorce, a rich LA builder buys land in Utah for a ski resort. The dead landowner's cute wives come with the deal. A Vegas mob boss wanted the land and problems follow.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, John Byner, Molly Shannon

Votes: 1,893

13. Marry Go Round (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Abby is a successful executive with a perfect life: she's moving to Paris and planning to marry Edward. Then she discovers that her divorce from her high-school sweetheart Luke is not exactly official.

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Amanda Schull, Brennan Elliott, Mary-Beth Manning, Jaycie Dotin

Votes: 766

14. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama

The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 2,963

15. Gett (2014)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani, Dalia Beger

Votes: 6,891 | Gross: $0.99M

16. Don't Talk to Strangers (1994 TV Movie)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

After Jane's first marriage collapses, she and her new husband Patrick Brody attempt to build a new life and move to a new state. However, her ex-husband follows them with a view to revenge.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Shanna Reed, Terry O'Quinn, Keegan MacIntosh

Votes: 784

17. We Were Dancing (1942)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Two titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman

Votes: 528

18. The Marrying Kind (1952)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing, the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had, hoping that the ... See full summary »

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy, Sheila Bond

Votes: 1,643

19. Me Again (2012)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Things don't go as expected when a disenchanted pastor wishes for a different life.

Directors: David A.R. White, Jeffrey Peterson | Stars: David A.R. White, Bruce McGill, Della Reese, Ali Landry Monteverde

Votes: 894

20. Divorce Law (1993)

R | 83 min | Comedy

How can anyone expect a fair divorce case when all the lawyers are out to do a little hanky-panky on their own?

Director: Michael Paul Girard | Stars: John Henry Richardson, Monique Parent, Christian Noble, Patricia Skeriotis

Votes: 88

21. Roughly Speaking (1945)

Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan

Votes: 880

22. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles

Votes: 523

23. Matir Agunot (2019– )

45 min | Drama

Hunting husbands and unchaining wives, Rabbi Yoseph Morad discovers that the real mystery happens in his own home with his wife Hannah.

Stars: Avraham Aviv Alush, Avigail Kovari, Nathan Dattner, Alma Dishi

Votes: 128

24. The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)

Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Votes: 641

25. Kid Boots (1926)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove, Lawrence Gray

Votes: 214 | Gross: $0.34M

26. Divorce (1945)

Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Romance

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 383

27. The Road to Reno (1931)

74 min | Drama, Romance

A modern woman, whose youthful appearance leads people to believe she is her daughter's sister, divorced several times, is about to marry a man who is a fortune-hunter, against the wishes of her daughter and, especially, her outraged son.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Lilyan Tashman, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Peggy Shannon, William 'Stage' Boyd

Votes: 61

28. Margarita y el lobo (1969)

45 min | Drama, Musical

A woman is granted a separation from her husband and through a flashback her various battles with life's wolves are recounted.

Director: Cecilia Bartolomé | Stars: Julia Peña, José Antonio Amor, Lola Lemos, Ernesto Martín

Votes: 60

29. The Henpecked Duck (1941)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Mrs. Duck sues Daffy for divorce in Judge Porky Pig's courtroom, charging her husband with losing their egg in an abortive magic trick.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner

Votes: 355

30. What Becomes of the Children? (1936)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Crime, Family

While Boston tycoon John Worthington dreams of building his "Great American Railway," his family life is disintegrating around him. His wife Edith spends all her time on social endeavors, ... See full synopsis »

Director: Walter Shumway | Stars: Joan Marsh, Robert Frazer, Natalie Moorhead, Glen Boles

Votes: 68

31. The Chaser (1928)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--... See full summary »

Director: Harry Langdon | Stars: Harry Langdon, Gladys McConnell, Helen Hayward, Bud Jamison

Votes: 128

32. Courting Trouble (1932)

19 min | Short, Comedy

A man is sentence to 30 days' house arrest while dressed as a woman and performing his wife's household chores.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Charles Murray, Aggie Herring, Arthur Stone, Alice Ward

Votes: 10

33. The Whole Truth (1923)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Wallingford (Stan Laurel) is taken into divorce court and must explain his prolonged absences from home. After telling one far-fetched tale, the judge orders a truth serum to be used, hoping the real story will emerge.

Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Earl Mohan, Helen Gilmore

Votes: 41

34. Esposa te doy (1957)

Drama

Being a divorced woman in Mexico of the 1950's. Chofi "Malena Cervantes" and Alberto del Valle "David Silva" are about to marry, so the night before she has a hen-party while he's got his ... See full summary »

Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: David Silva, Maricruz Olivier, Emma Roldán, Martha Elena Cervantes

Votes: 15

35. The Son of a Hun (1918)

25 min | Comedy, Short

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Director: Jack White | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Gertrude Selby, Jimmie Adams, Charles Dorety

36. Active Service (1916)

Short, Comedy

Things happen fast in the appropriately named town of While-U-Wait. Food, dry-cleaning, even marriage, all in minutes. Be very careful what you order.

Director: Louis Myll | Stars: Harry Watson, George Bickel, Rosa Gore, Della Connor

Votes: 8

37. Charmed (1998–2006)
Episode: A Witch's Tail: Part 2 (2002)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Paige, Leo and Piper try to track the mermaid Phoebe, who is eventually captured by the demon who made the deal with the sea-hag for immortality. Meanwhile, Piper is worried about fighting while she is pregnant.

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs, Brian Krause

Votes: 723

38. Dallas (1978–1991)
Episode: The Ewing Touch (1982)

TV-PG | 49 min | Drama, Romance

J.R. and Bobby's true colors emerge as they jockey for position in their race for Ewing Oil. Members of the Ewing family experience varied emotions when Ellie invites a gentleman friend to dinner.

Director: Leonard Katzman | Stars: Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman

Votes: 130

39. My Mother the Car (1965–1966)
Episode: Burned at the Steak (1965)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Fantasy

When his mother encourages him to meddle in their quarreling neighbors' affairs, Dave inexplicably winds up breaking up their marriage.

Director: David Davis | Stars: Jerry Van Dyke, Maggie Pierce, Ann Sothern, Peggy Miller

Votes: 24

40. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Never Again (1997)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder takes a vacation to visit Graceland while sending disaffected Scully to Philadelphia to look into Russians with ties to UFOs. She becomes attracted to a secretly unstable young divorcee whose tattoo is telling him to kill women.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rodney Rowland, Jodie Foster

Votes: 4,209

41. Sanford (1980–1981)
Episode: Here Comes the Bride: Part 2 (1981)

30 min | Comedy

Fred, Esther and Cal drive to Fremont, Missouri seeking a divorce, but must first plead their case before the county's irascible old judge, who is resistant to tearing asunder what God joined together.

Director: Jim Drake | Stars: Redd Foxx, Dennis Burkley, Marguerite Ray, LaWanda Page

Votes: 22

42. The Split (2018–2022)
Episode: Episode #3.3 (2022)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama

Tenions rise as Hannah and Nathan struggle to disentangle their lives. Christie arrives in London, and Rose has a clear-out.

Director: Dee Koppang O'Leary | Stars: Nicola Walker, Michael Elkin, Deborah Findlay, Elizabeth Roberts

Votes: 136

43. The Affair (2014–2019)
Episode: Episode #2.4 (2015)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama

Helen makes a serious mistake detrimental to her custody battle; Noah fears for the future of his relationships with Alison and his children.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, Joshua Jackson

Votes: 653

44. A House Through Time (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2018)

59 min | Documentary, Biography, History

David Olusoga follows the residents of the house from the 1850s to 1890s, a period of rapid change. He uncovers the story of why the house changed from a single dwelling to a boarding house, a Jewish immigrant and a sad family drama.

Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan

Votes: 16