The Painted Veil (2006)

After he catches his new wife Naomi Watts cheating on him with Liev Schreiber, bacteriologist Edward Norton forces her to accompany him to the Chinese interior during a cholera epidemic. Watts’s character is a flighty, spoiled, rich girl while Norton is reserved, stoic, and often uncaring but somehow neither of them are completely unlikable. Romances where the couple finds attraction for each other over time, particularly when they previous had none, are some of my favorites and even if it’s somewhat predictable, the leads make it work. It’s a beautifully filmed picture with some rather breathtaking Chinese scenery throughout.