In the Company of Men (1997)
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards
Director: Neil LaBute
LaBute's debut; another exaggeratedly hard-nosed tale of masculinity and morals.

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Starring: James Spader, Andie MacDowell
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Equally talk-oriented, less brutal indie drama observes similar sexual betrayals.

Creative Movie Matches

Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen
Director: Mike Nichols
Earlier, well-acted Hollywood exploration of male chauvinists' distasteful sex lives.

The Ice Storm (1997)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen
Director: Ang Lee
More restrained illustration of upper-middle-class infidelity and moral decay.

The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bernadette LaFont
Director: Jean Eustache
Genuinely upsetting, exhausting French drama details similarly destructive sexual games.

What Happened Was... (1994)
Starring: Tom Noonan, Karen Sillas
Director: Tom Noonan
More subtle, equally disturbing, claustrophobic tale of heterosexual trauma.