10 Best Thrillers Involving Husbands & Wives
10 Best Thrillers Involving Husbands & Wives
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Instead of focusing on only what threatens a person’s life, marriage thrillers threaten the seemingly unshakeable bond of matrimony.
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Thrillers have always been known to quicken the pace and tingle the spines of audiences since they tell stories where people’s lives are on the line. However, the strongest people who have to meet these challenges are those who are not alone, which makes marriage thrillers all the more intriguing.
Instead of focusing on only what threatens a person’s life, marriage thrillers threaten the seemingly unshakeable bond of matrimony. The stakes are higher when not only are lives in danger but a loving relationship too, making these thrillers not just exciting but potentially heartbreaking as well.
10 Consenting Adults
Directed by, Alan J. Pakula, acclaimed director of All The President’s Men and Presumed Innocent, Consenting Adults concerns a married couple whose lives get turned upside by their new neighbors. The husband Richard (Kevin Kline) becomes attracted to his new neighbor Eddy’s (Kevin Spacey) beautiful wife Kay, soon finding himself having an affair with her, but when he’s framed for her murder he must fight to prove his innocence.
The film featured a great set-up, twist, and a terrific performance by Spacey but despite the director’s pedigree of A-list thrillers, critics panned Consenting Adults and the film failed to make a dent at the box office.
9 Double Jeopardy
Framed for her husband’s murder, Ashley Judd plays Libby, an imprisoned woman who discovers her husband is still alive. She also realizes that since she’s already been convicted of his murder, she can legally kill him without being tried again, due to the “Double Jeopardy Clause.” So, once released from prison, she attempts to track him down and get revenge.
Written by The Rock’s screenwriters and also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Double Jeopardy is a well-made albeit implausible thriller that showcased Judd as a resourceful action hero. Despite mixed reviews from critics, Double Jeopardy was a hit with audiences.
8 Sleeping With The Enemy
One of Julia Roberts’ first movies as a rising superstar, Sleeping With The Enemy concerns a wife who’s been abused by her husband, so she fakes her own death and begins a new life. However, her dangerous husband discovers she’s still alive and becomes hell-bent on tracking her down.
Sleeping With The Enemy proved why Julia Roberts was a star and her performance shows strength. Also, Patrick Bergin’s portrayal of her violent husband is downright terrifying.
7 Unlawful Entry
Unlawful Entry revolves around a married couple, Michael and Karen (Kurt Russell and Madeline Stowe) who get attacked one night by an intruder. When the cops arrive, they meet a lonely police officer named Pete (Ray Liotta) who begins to become obsessed with Karen.
Unlawful Entry is a thrilling film with many underlying themes including the overreach of police authority and social structure. Critics and audiences agreed that Ray Liotta’s performance is absolutely chilling and would result in him winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
6 The Gift
Actor Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut is a thrilling psychological mind-bender about a married couple, Simon and Robyn, whose world is rocked when they run into an old socially awkward friend of Simon’s, named Gordo (Edgerton). At first, Gordo creeps them out, but Robyn soon discovers that Gordo’s behavior has something to do with her seemingly charming husband’s past.
Writer/director Edgerton crafts a thriller that subverts expectations, and as an actor gives a superbly unnerving performance. Playing against type, Jason Bateman also gives a great performance as a man who is likable on the surface but holds dark secrets underneath. Critics and audiences agreed and The Gift was a hit at the box office.
5 Unfaithful
Director Adrian Lyne is no stranger to thrillers revolving around extramarital affairs, having helmed the classic, Fatal Attraction. In Unfaithful, Richard Gere and Diane Lane star as a married couple, Edward and Connie, in a passionless marriage. When Connie’s chance encounter with a stranger leads to an affair, it causes a ripple effect of cascading events that include murder.
Talented director Adrian Lyne crafts a very un-Hollywood thriller that’s for adults and not for the casual thriller moviegoers. Despite doing well at the box office, Unfaithful is a thriller not just made to only make money, unlike most thrillers today, but one that focuses on character, sparks discussion, and stirs emotion.
4 Malice
In Malice, Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as husband and wife Andy and Tracy who, when fixing up their new house, take on a surgeon named Jed (Alec Baldwin) as a renter, to help defray repair costs. Things get complicated when “God Complex” minded Jed removes Tracy’s ovaries in a life or death situation. However, they soon discover there could be more to his reasoning than just that.
A difficult film to discuss without spoiling, Malice is full of great twists, turns, and red-herrings (including an oddly unnecessary serial rapist sub-plot). However, what makes Malice thrilling is the fact that its story is unexpected, and audiences begin the film thinking the story is one thing before realizing it’s actually something completely different. An early Aaron Sorkin screenplay, Alec Baldwin’s “I Am God” monologue is one of the best ever written for a film.
3 Gone Girl
Based on the book by Gillian Flynn and directed by acclaimed director David Fincher, Gone Girl revolves around Nick (Ben Affleck), whose wife Amy goes missing and all the evidence points to him being the cause of her disappearance and potential death. However, the not-so-secret twist is that Amy, angry over Nick’s infidelities, is still alive and attempting to frame him for her murder. Once he realizes Amy’s plan, Nick has to find her and expose her.
Released to stellar reviews and a huge box office, Gone Girl, like most Fincher films, is impeccably directed, stylish and dark. While certainly thrilling, disturbing, and at times even humorous, Gone Girl depicts a situation where the killer really isn’t the two leads but marriage itself.
2 Gaslight
This classic film inspired an expression that is still used today. Gaslight, directed by George Cukor, stars legendary actress Ingrid Bergman as a wife whose husband manipulates her into believing she’s losing her mind in order to cover up the fact that he’s trying to steal expensive jewelry from her.
Gaslight is a Hitchcockian-thriller that focuses on psychological abuse and has become a classic since its 1944 release where it was nominated for several Oscars including a Best Actress win for Bergman’s phenomenal performance. Since its release, “gaslighting” has been a wildly used term for making people (especially women) doubt their own sanity.
1 Straw Dogs
Wild Bunch director Sam Peckinpah crafts a thrilling-yet-controversial film starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a married couple, David and Amy, who fall prey to her ex-boyfriend and other sinister men in their new town after being hired to work on their house.
Initially, David is mild-mannered and meek, however, certain terrible events lead to an awakening of violence within him, culminating in a siege of their home, with David and Amy fighting their vicious intruders to protect it. Considered one of the most controversial films of all time, Straw Dogs is a disturbing, unnerving thriller with many ideas about manhood and its natural inclination for violence. While thrilling, Straw Dogs is not for the faint of heart.
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