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Great Movies w/ Toxic Couples?


They could be in love, too. But besides just being great, if we can try to list the lesser known gems, since most of us have probably seen "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for example, but that movie is kinda beating a dead horse. The exploitation gets old after a while.

The best I can think of at the moment are:
-Buffalo '66
-A Woman Under The Influence
-Minnie and Moskowitz
-Fat City
-Last Tango In Paris

I also highly recommend the movie "Les Chat". Starring Jean Gabin. It's French for "the cat", and its about an older couple who can't stand each other. I don't wanna spoil anything, but the movie to me is an 8.5/10

The last two movies I have seen would be good examples, and just good movies like "Head-On" (7.5/10) about a young suicidal woman who wants to get away from her strict parents so she asks a guy she sees at the mental hospital if he would marry her.

Three days ago, I saw "The Honeymoon Killers" (7/10). They meet from a newspaper ad, and the woman sees that her "man" embezzles money from old woman who are tempted by this younger Latin guy, with the help of his "sister" his overweight girlfriend who is very insecure, which also placates any suspicion the women might have.

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War of the Roses is first movie that comes to mind.

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This was mine, too.

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"Bonnie and Clyde" and "Badlands" are both about attractive young couples who go on crime sprees.

And "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus", where falling in love leads to disaster.

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I would guess any movie with all women (but just one man) would lead to disaster. Can you think of any others?

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None of those movies are about all women and just one man.

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Black Narcissus is

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Sabu destroys your argument!

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> "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Badlands" are both about attractive young couples who go on crime sprees.

Remove the word "attractive" and you can add Starkweather to that list. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404456/

It's about Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, two teenage losers who went on a killing spree together in the late 1950s. IMDB's users rate it 4.7/10. Yeah, it's low budget and certainly won't win any Oscars, but I thought it was a little better than that.

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Well, "Badlands" with Sheen and Spacek was based on the Starkweather/Fugate murders, and they're both attractive!

Damn good movie, but I have no desire to watch it again.

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I haven't seen it, but when I looked it up I saw that Badlands is set in South Dakota, and the characters have different names than the real murderers. Starkweather and Fugate inspired several movies, but those filmmakers have more room for artistic license. The real Charles Starkweather ... well, picture what Beavis might look like if he and Butt-Head hit the gym and each put on twenty-five pounds or so of muscle, just enough so they weren's skinny anymore. That dude was creepy looking. Fugate wasn't so bad, but at most ordinary looking, a fourteen year old that only a nineteen year old loser who couldn't get any other action -- i.e., someone like Charles Starkweather -- could fall for.

Anyway, the movie Starkweather is a dramatization of real events, depicting Starkweather and Fugate in Nebraska and Wyoming, and from what I understand the filmmakes stuck pretty close to the way things happened. Neither Starkweather nor Fugate were portrayed as attractive, either in looks or personality. He was portrayed as having some very sick fetishes in addition to his homicidal nature. She came off as someone so stupid that if you had offered her a photo of Abraham Lincoln's funeral autographed by Abe himself, she would have bought it and congratulated herself on snagging a rare and valuable historical relic

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Nick and Amy in Gone Girl.

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Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in "Basic Instinct".

Come to think of it, most Sharon Stone movies feature a toxic couple...

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