the best with intrigue, lovers and suspense

If there is a theme in the stories that we read and see that can immediately attract attention, it is that of betrayal.

It will be because it immediately touches the emotional sphere, because it confronts us with often compelling plots, or perhaps because it is the basis of intrigues that manage to go far beyond those of sentimental relationships, the fact remains that movies revolving around the topic of adultery manage to keep us glued to the screen.

Here are five really interesting titles if you want to watch treason-themed stories full of suspense and deception.

The best movies about cheating: Closer

Film adaptation of the stage drama of the same name by Patrick Marber Closer is a 2004 film with four exceptional protagonists: Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen. Directed by the same director who made the film adaptation of Angels in America (also originally a play already turned into a spectacular TV miniseries by HBO), this story of betrayals and entanglements is a visually captivating melodrama, from evocative images able to conquer

as much as the story of the protagonists and their sentimental turmoil. In a choral story in which the mutual betrayals of the writer Dan, the stripper Alice, the photographer Anna and the dermatologist Larry, the viewer finds himself to reflect on how lies and subterfuge have a different weight depending on the intentions and their realization.

Match Points

Probably not one of the best titles brought to the big screen since Woody Allenbut Match Points it is certainly a film that makes betrayal its absolute center. As it explores the relationship between Chris, a tennis teacher, and Nola, his brother-in-law’s girlfriend to whom he is invariably attracted, this film is a chronicle of adultery and its consequences in the context of a bourgeoisie in which social ascent is punctuated by a network of more or less tangled relationships.

The theme of treason is depicted in a melodramatic waybut with some narrative tips that make it similar to a thriller, which sets it apart from other films that focus on this topic. Among the protagonists we find Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Scarlett JohanssonAllen’s muse for several films, which took over from Kate Winslet for which the role of Nola was initially thought.

Last Night

Which the fine line that defines a betrayal? Is it understood only in the physical sense, by consuming the actual act, or is it a broader concept, which also includes feelings and intentions? Last Night2010 film with Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Guillaume Canet and Eva Mendes explores this concept in depth, making it clear that it is not only betrayal in its most carnal conception that is such.

With a slow pace and a strong dramatic touch, Last Night takes us into the long night of a young married couple, each of which will have to dealing with the temptation to cheat on your partner and then pay the emotional consequences. In a succession of suggestive atmospheres, the film offers us an almost banal cross-section of ua couple in crisisfocusing on the whirlwind of guilt that characterizes the events they have found themselves facing.

Sliding door

Have you ever tried to imagine how your life would have changed if you had made one choice rather than another? This Peter Howitt film from 1998 explores this concept, following Helen, the protagonist, following the evolution after a pivotal event: to take or not to take the subway. It seems like a minor action, yet it’s one that may or may not set off a chain of events that upends the life of Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow (recently at the center of the news for the trial following a ski accident), such as the way she learns of her boyfriend’s betrayal.

The captivating narration, which is also supported by a well done soundtrack with pieces by big names in international musicand the different folds that Helen’s story takes are very engaging, especially discovering it what will be his fate and how much that single moment was able to change him.

The bridges of Madison County

Although it is a 1995 film, The bridges of Madison Countytaken from the homonymous book by Robert J. Walleris a still much loved melodrama whose plot revolves completely around a betrayal. The love between the two protagonists was born by chance

while the husband and children of the housewife Francesca Johnson are away from home: it will therefore be only her to know by chance Robert Kincaid, a National Geographic photographer engaged in the creation of a report on bridges, and that meeting will be the beginning of a short but intense love story.

The film, starring a wonderful Meryl Streep and a surprising Clint Eastwood in a role far removed from the macho image he is often associated with, he shows the discovery of the betrayal by the children of Francesca following her death, and the change in their reaction as they immerse themselves in the diaries that their mother dedicated to her greatest love.