Does anybody know of any good plays, books, or movies about a woman having an affair

[Hippo_Tron]

I'm writing a play where the main character is a married female and having an affair and I'm looking for some inspiration. Most of the fiction on this subject tends to be about men having affairs.

[Richardo]

1. Madame Bovary...

...springs to mind.

[Richardo]

2. ...oh, and The Graduate.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. Good suggestions, thank-you

[lukasahero]

4. Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair"

Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"

[Hippo_Tron]

7. I've read The End of The Affair, but its been a while

As I recall didn't that mostly focus on the man having the affair?

[lukasahero]

10. Guess I misunderstood your question

Since he wasn't married and she was, in my mind, she was the one having the affair (i.e. affair = cheating).

But I guess if you're looking for a story told from her perspective, that's something different then.

[Hippo_Tron]

12. Yea that's what I had in mind, still thanks for the suggestion

I will probably pull out my copy of that book and look over it at some point.

[Shell Beau]

18. I am not sure of the technical definition, but I consider it an affair

either way.

[anneboleyn]

28. And the movie Waitress (starring Keri Russell) -- lots of lovely pies in that film too

[LisaM]

5. I agree re Madame Bovary.

Does it have to be a consummated affair? What about "The Great Gatsby", or "Middlemarch"?

You could also try "Mansfield Park" (Maria with Henry Crawford). I know that as soon as I'm away from a computer, I'll think of hundreds of examples.

"Rebecca" and "Wuthering Heights" also come to mind.

[Chan790]

6. Anna Karenina

Though technically, I think everybody in Anna Karenina is having one. It's on one level a critique of the falseness of the Russian aristocracy.

[kimmerspixelated]

An Affair to Remember?

[kimmerspixelated]

8. An Affair to Remember?

[rcrush]

9. That movie with Diane Lane.

That was hot.

[edbermac]

11. Unfaithful, Eye of the Needle, From Here To Eternity...

Postman Always Rings Twice. Eyes Wide Shut was about a wife fantasizing about an affair.

on edit: Brief Encounter.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Classic Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn movie, "Same Time Next Year"

[mitchum]

14. Another vote for Madame Bovary

[Shell Beau]

15. Unfaithful was a good one.

Closer was too.

[TZ]

40. Second vote for Unfaithful.

Excellent movie

[stewartcolbert08]

43. Me too!

Great movie!

[EFerrari]

16. Depends if it's comedy, drama or what have you. Edit

For example, Crimes of the Heart is about an affair that one sister has with a black teenager. And that subplot is very much from her POV.

[Demoiselle]

17. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tea and Sympathy.

[TokenQueer]

19. Try the film "Another Woman" directed by Woody Allen.

Not an "other woman" pic in the way you may expect. Gena Rowlands turns out an incredible portrait of a woman that rents an apartment in NYC to write a book. Through the heating ducts she is able to listen in on therapy sessions and becomes obsessed with a pregnant patient (Mia Farrow). A dark, overlooked gem from Woody's "Ingmar Bergman" period.

[Inspired]

20. Well, it isn't a good book but that is what The Bridges of Madison County is about.

[REP]

21. Candida, Shaw

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. It's not really a classic, but The Good Girl.

Starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhall. It's a surprisingly good movie.

[newcriminal]

23. I can't remember the name of the book.

Maybe someone here can help. This woman dies and her kids find love letters that their father wrote to her I believe every certain day of the week. They read them and find out that one of them isn't really their father's son. I think it was called Tuesday Letters, but can't find anything with that name when I google it.

[newcriminal]

33. The Wednesday Letters - I finally found it.

[handmade34]

24. The Bridges of Madison County

[RebelOne]

37. You beat me to it. That's what first came to mind. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

38. PUKE

[jmm]

25. Casablanca

Ilsa may not be the main character but she's one of the main ones and was having an affair while her husband was in a concentration camp.

[anneboleyn]

30. I posted this one too -- a great film, and it definitely revolves around Ilsa's behavior

[XemaSab]

26. The White Rose by Jean Hanff Korelitz

:D

[anneboleyn]

27. The novel Possession by Byatt, Nurse Jackie (television program), CASABLANCA

[anneboleyn]

29. Meant to post here -- movie Waitress with Keri Russell, has lots of lovely pies too

[anneboleyn]

31. And of course The Scarlet Letter (with an "A" on her chest)

[undeterred]

32. Website

http://www.the-other-woman.com/

[cloudbase]

34. Double Indemnity

[travelingtypist]

35. Damage -- book by Josephine Hart; movie directed by Louis Malle.

The woman, Anna, played by Juliet Binoche, is in a relationship with her married lover Stephen's son Martyn. She's engaged to Martyn, not married yet. It's a very disturbing story, lovers embracing doom. The book has very strong D/s themes that Malle elected to gloss over.

[704wipes]

36. what about 'fear of flying'

by jessica jong - might help with your hotter scenes

[LeftinOH]

39. The Last Picture Show (one of several overalapping plots).

[skygazer]

41. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

[MrScorpio]

42. Body Heat