SPOILERS!

[KayFrancis]

I wasnt sure if your post meant that they plotted to kill him at the end of the film, not during so I just went with the standard wife, lover wanting to kill hubbie. I read your clue as they didnt kill him as in Double and Postman. Probably time for a new clue if Swithin and Dargo's guesses are not the films you're thinking about.

[HoldenIsHere]

Body Heat?

(I don't get what the "were not being targeted for murder" clue refers to in that sentence.)

If Swithin's guess of 'Body Heat' here turns out not to be it, I'll now guess this film to be 1953's 'Inferno'.

The movie in question is not BODY HEAT or INFERNO.

To clarify the "were not being targeted for murder" part of the clue:

The audience is led to believe (and the main character in the movie comes to believe) that the couple is in danger of being murdered.
However, the truth (the "twist") is that the couple were actually plotting to kill the woman's husband.

[skimpole]

That's overly broad, since it applies to both Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice (both version of the latter!).

The clue does not apply to either DOUBLE INDEMNITY or THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
1. In those movies, there is never a question that the adulterous couple were plotting to kill the woman's husband --- that is part of the story early in .
the movies --- so this is no spoiler.
2. Also, in those movies, the audience is not led to believe that the couple is being targeted for murder. There is no "twist" where we learn that they are actually plotting a murder.

So just to be clear, although the adulterous couple are plotting to kill the woman's husband, the movie starts with the audience thinking they are the potential victim? That is not clear from what you stated.

[HoldenIsHere]

That's overly broad, since it applies to both Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice (both version of the latter!).

The clue does not apply to either DOUBLE INDEMNITY or THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
1. In those movies, there is never a question that the adulterous couple were plotting to kill the woman's husband --- that is part of the story early in .
the movies --- so this is no spoiler.
2. Also, in those movies, the audience is not led to believe that the couple is being targeted for murder. There is no "twist" where we learn that they are actually plotting a murder.

So just to be clear, although the adulterous couple are plotting to kill the woman's husband, the movie starts with the audience thinking they are the potential victim? That is not clear from what you stated.

In the context of a spoiler, the use of the word instead separating the two clauses indicates that the expected scenario (the one before the word instead) did not occur, but alternatively another scenario (the one after the word instead) did.

An another way to phrase it:
The adulterous couple, in fact, were not being targeted for murder; instead, they were plotting to murder the woman's husband.

[HoldenIsHere]

I wasnt sure if your post meant that they plotted to kill him at the end of the film, not during so I just went with the standard wife, lover wanting to kill hubbie. I read your clue as they didnt kill him as in Double and Postman. Probably time for a new clue if Swithin and Dargo's guesses are not the films you're thinking about.

Another hint:
A few years after the release of the movie, the person playing the wife would go on to a leading role in a long-running TV series.

Earlier hint:
The movie is in color.

[HoldenIsHere]

I wasnt sure if your post meant that they plotted to kill him at the end of the film, not during so I just went with the standard wife, lover wanting to kill hubbie. I read your clue as they didnt kill him as in Double and Postman. Probably time for a new clue if Swithin and Dargo's guesses are not the films you're thinking about.

Another hint:
A few years after the release of the movie, the person playing the wife would go on to a leading role in a long-running TV series.

Earlier hint:
The movie is in color.

Yet another hint;
(relating to previous guesses)
The movie is question was released after INFERNO bur before BODY HEAT.

[HoldenIsHere]

SPOLIER:
The adulterous couple were not being targeted for murder. Instead, they were plotting to murder the woman's husband.

First hint:
The movie is in color.

Second hint:
A few years after the release of the movie, the person playing the wife would go on to a leading role in a long-running TV series.

Third hit:
(relating to previous guesses)
The movie is question was released after INFERNO bur before BODY HEAT.

New hint:
The wife, the husband and the wife's lover are not the main characters in the movie.
The main character is an outside observer who at first thinks the couple are in danger of being killed, but later realizes that they have been planning to kill the woman's husband.

[skimpole]

The Conversation

[HoldenIsHere]

The Conversation

You are correct.

The movie is Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION, starring Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who's hired to bug the conversation of a man and woman as they walk through San Francisco's Union Square. Hackman's character later learns his client is the woman's husband.
This is my second favorite Coppola movie (after YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW).
The woman was played by Cindy Williams, who would go on to star as Shirley Feeney on the TV series LAVERNE & SHIRLEY.
The movie also features an early movie performance by Harrison Ford, who plays the assistant of the woman's husband.

It's your turn.

[skimpole]

The movie is inspired by a Hans Christian Anderson tale, but with preteen children as the two major characters.

[skimpole]

The movie is animated.

[BagelOnAPlate]

It sounds like Frozen.
Elsa and Anna are pre-teens at the start of the movie although they are teenagers by the end of it.

[skimpole]

It sounds like Frozen.
Elsa and Anna are pre-teens at the start of the movie although they are teenagers by the end of it.

Not an unreasonable guess, but not the movie I'm thinking of.

Another clue: the movie takes place in the present day, or at least the present when the movie came out.

[skimpole]

It appears we need another clue. Here's what we have so far.

1. The movie is based on a Hans Christian Anderson tale, but the two main characters are pre-teen children.
2. The movie is animated.
3. The movie takes place in the present day, or at least the present of when the movie came out.

And now:

4. We get to see the two main character's parents (for a total of four in all).

[skimpole]

It appears we need another clue. Here's what we have so far.

1. The movie is based on a Hans Christian Anderson tale, but the two main characters are pre-teen children.
2. The movie is animated.
3. The movie takes place in the present day, or at least the present of when the movie came out.
4. We get to see the two main character's parents (for a total of four in all).

And now:

5. The movie takes place in, and by, the sea.