Cheaters Always Win: 10 Awesome Infidelity Movies

In movies and real life, it seems like nobody is staying faithful these days. Check out our all-time favorite flicks about creeping.

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Whether it's a ball and chain or duct tape, marriage will have you feeling stuck.

It must be National Infidelity Week, 'cause everywhere we look marriage vows are being betrayed (especially when we look down). Last Friday, Tiger Woods was injured in an early morning car crash outside his home, and now it's looking like his hot Swedish wife Elin Nordegren attacked him and his car with a golf club because he's been creeping with a hostess (guess somebody didn't check out The Complex Guide to Cheating). Oddly enough, a slew of new films coming out this week also deal with infidelity: There's a guilty husband trying to get his wife to cheat on him (Made for Each Other); a rage-filled cuckold plotting revenge with a bottle of booze and a gun (Across the Hall); a supposed army widow smashing her husband's brother (Brothers); and a scorned wife holding her departing husband captive (Serious Moonlight, above).

With all this deception in the air, Complex decided we should honor the moment with a list of our 10 favorite movies about infidelity. The streets are watching right now, so instead of stepping out, stay in and check for these classics of carnal corruption. Trust us, this is one list you want to be faithful to...

Unfaithful

UNFAITHFUL (2002)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Passion-seeking wife (Diane Lane) on loving husband (Richard Gere), with French bookseller (Olivier Martinez)
LESSON LEARNED: French people expect and practically encourage infidelity. (You know how the French laughed at the U.S. because people were scandalized by President Clinton getting domed out by an intern?) Basically, don't ever leave your woman around a French dude. Do start teaching ESL to French chicks.

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Election

ELECTION (1999)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Teacher husband (Mark Harelik) on wife (Delaney Driscoll), with ambitious high school student (Reese Witherspoon)
LESSON LEARNED: Um, high school p*ssy gets "so wet you can't believe it"? Er...just say no.

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What-Lies-Beneath

WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Scientist husband (Harrison Ford) on wife (Michelle Pfeiffer), with student (Amber Valletta)
LESSON LEARNED: There is no such thing as the affair nobody will ever know about. Jumpoffs will snitch on you even from beyond the grave.

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Jungle-fever

JUNGLE FEVER (1991)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Successful black architect husband (Wesley Snipes) on super-fine wife (Veronica Webb), with white secretary (Anabella Sciorra)
LESSON LEARNED: White people are the devil. They don't necessarily mean to be, and sometimes they're hot, but they're still the devil.

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Secret_window

SECRET WINDOW (2004)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Wife (Maria Bello) on writer husband (Johnny Depp), with another man (Timothy Hutton)
LESSON LEARNED: It's not murder if your imaginary alter-ego does the dirty work.

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Indecent-Proposal

INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Savings-less wife (Demi Moore) on husband (Woody Harrelson), with smitten billionaire (Robert Redford)
LESSON LEARNED: You can't turn a ho into a housewife, but you can turn a wife into a whore you resent if you allow a covetous old rich dude to smash for $1 million.

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The-last-seduction

THE LAST SEDUCTION (1994)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Manipulative wife (Linda Fiorentino) on drug dealer husband (Bill Pullman), with insurance salesman dupe (Peter Berg)
LESSON LEARNED: When the woman you're smashing tries to convince you to kill people for her, it's time to take another crack at Match.com.

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To_Die_For

TO DIE FOR (1995)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Weather girl wife (Nicole Kidman) on mob-connected husband (Matt Dillon), with high school teen (Joaquin Phoenix)
LESSON LEARNED: Horny teenage boys will murder a dude for some tang 'cause they don't realize how easy it is to slay chicks when they grow up (or how easy it is to become somebody's woman in prison).

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Derailed

DERAILED (2005)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Sad ad exec husband (Clive Owen) on schoolteacher wife (Melissa George), with supposed married woman (Jennifer Aniston)
LESSON LEARNED: Word to blackmail, affairs cost more than a hotel room.

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Fatal-attraction

FATAL ATTRACTION (1987)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Momentarily horny husband (Michael Douglas) on wife (Anne Archer), with an unstable editor (Glenn Close)
LESSON LEARNED: No woman is really stable, so proceed with caution. Unless you don't mind your bunny being boiled.

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***Bonus Infidelity Movie:
Bound

BOUND (1996)
WHO CHEATED ON WHO: Girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) on gangster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano), with butch ex-con (Gina Gershon)
LESSON LEARNED: Cheating with another chick who looks like Gina Gershon (even when she's made to look mannish) isn't cheating at all—as long as we can watch.

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