Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleeping with the Enemy

She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she's ever met. Her husband.

199199 min6.5 / 10

A tense psychological thriller about domestic abuse and the inescapable grip of a controlling, violent husband, built on sustained paranoia and the protagonist's desperate fight for freedom.

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

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