Movie Suggestions

Below is a list – crowdsourced by the members of Open Love NY – of titles and links to movies that portray open or non-monogamous relationships. Some are positive; some are not. Open Love NY does not endorse any particular viewpoint or opinion expressed in these works.

TITLE YEAR COUNTRY
Design for Living 1933 USA
Jules and Jim 1962 France
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1969 USA
Paint Your Wagon 1969 USA
Group Marriage 1973 USA
The Harrad Experiment 1973 USA
Lovin' Molly 1974
Same Time, Next Year 1978
Amor Libre 1979 Mexico
A Change of Seasons 1980
Willie & Phil 1980
A Small Circle of Friends 1980
Summer Lovers 1982
Micki + Maude 1984
She's Gotta Have It 1986
Straight to the Heart/À corps perdu 1988 Canada
Bal poussière 1989 Ivory Coast
The Mahabharata 1989
Henry & June 1990
December Bride 1991 Ireland
Belle Epoque 1992 Spain
Café au lait 1993 France
Sirens 1993
The Wedding Banquet/Xi yan 1993 Taiwan/USA
Threesome 1994
The Substitute Wife 1994
Carrington 1995 UK/France
The Doom Generation 1995
French Twist/Gazon Maudit 1995 France
Breaking the Waves 1996
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover 1996
Afterglow 1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night 1997
Splendor 1999
About Adam 2000
Me You Them 2000
Y Tu Mamá También 2001 Mexico
Frida 2002 USA/Canada/Mexico
The Cuckoo 2002 Russia
When Two Won't Do 2002
A Home at the End of the World 2004
Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family 2004
Wild Side 2004 France
You I Love 2004
Kinsey 2004
These Girls 2005
Eternal Summer 2006
I Love You. And You. And You. 2006
Kiss Me Again 2006
Shortbus 2006
Love Songs/Les chansons d'amour 2007 France
Women in Love 2007
Fling 2008
My Wife Got Married 2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008
Amelia 2009
Dare 2009
Drama 2010
Four Lovers 2010
The Freebie 2010
Las Aparicio 2010
Three/Drei 2010 Germany
Savages 2012
Angels of Sex/El sexo de los ángeles 2012 Spain
4some 2012
Band of Outsiders 1964 France
Bandits 2001
De-Lovely 2004 USA
Four of Hearts 2013
Habana Eva 2010
Her 2013
Portrait of a Marriage 1990 UK
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 UK
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 UK
The Dreamers 2003 France
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 2011 USA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 USA
The Witches of Eastwick 1987
The Sex Monster 1999
5 to 7 2014
The Third One / El Tercero 2014 Argentina
More than Friendship 2013 Germany
I Love You Renato / Eu te amo Renato 2012 Brazil
The Passion of Ayn Rand 1999
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA
Hyde Park on Hudson 2012
Amorous 2014 UK
Lutine 2016 France
Heart Beat 1980 USA
No Way Out 1987 USA
Ordinary Decent Criminal 2000 Ireland
Pourquoi Pas!/Why Not 1977 France
Le Bonheur/Happiness 1965 France
Monogamish 2017 USA
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017 USA
She's Gotta Have It (Series) 2017 USA
You Me Her (Series) 2016 USA
Why Knot 2016 Canada/India
Newness 2017 USA
Futurama:The Beast with a Billion Backs 2008 USA
(A)exual 2011 USA
Camp Beaverton: Meet the Beavers 2013 USA
Ma Belle, My Beauty 2021 USA/France
First Blush 2020 USA
Poly-Love (Short) 2016 USA
Lust Life Love 2021 USA