Chloe (2009)
This is the first film by director Atom Egoyan that he didn't write himself. The plot is taken from the 2004 French drama Nathalie, though screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson starts more ambiguously (we don't know whether Liam Neeson's character is having an affair) and ends more melodramatically. Catherine (Julianne Moore) thinks David (Neeson) is cheating on her, and hires Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to tempt him. Egoyan describes the theme well: "If you're not aware of the explicit agenda of the other person, a scheme can be really dangerous."
Greenberg (2010)
Ben Stiller directed the 1996 black comedy The Cable Guy, which confounded expectations by starring Jim Carrey as an unlikeable guy. Now it's the turn of Noah Baumbach, writer-director of The Squid and the Whale, to do the same with Stiller as Roger Greenberg, even if Baumbach insists that "I don't think of Greenberg as unsympathetic." Roger's brother and family have departed, leaving the grousing, self-centred, post-breakdown fellow to house-sit in Los Angeles and spread his anti-charm. Bonuses include chats with director and actors.