Unremitting forensic studies of marital disintegration, infidelity, sexual obsession and sexual jealousy.
Just the kind of cinema I love and here is the best of all I've seen.
Novels I'd recommend on similar themes:
The Act of Love - Howard Jacobson
The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
Climates - André Maurois
The Philanderer - Stanley Kauffman
Summer's End - David Moreau
The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
L'ennui - Alberto Moravia
Sylvia - Leonard Michaels
The Dark Journey - Julian Green
Howling at the Moon - Paul Sayer
My Struggle 2 : A Man in Love - Karl Ove Knausgård
Asylum - Patrick McGrath
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
A Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon
A Love Affair in Rome - Ercole Patti
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabet Smart
The Dead Seagull - George Barker
Silence in October - Jens Christian Grøndahl,
The Body - William Sansom
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Summer Affair - Ivan Klima
Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
La Jalousie - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Before She Met Me - Julian Barnes
The Only Story - Julian Barnes
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Serious Game - Hjalmar Soderberg
Embers - Sándor Márai'
Journey into the Past - Stefan Zweig
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Intimacy; Menudo; Blackbird Pie - Raymond Carver (short stories)