The movies are full of cheaters:  people who have affairs, students who steal the answers to their tests,  athletes who break the rules. We know cheating is bad, but what are the repercussions for doing so? Here's what the movies have taught us...

Fatal Attraction

The Kind of Cheating: You know, the usual -- despite being happily married, you have a brief, passionate fling with a colleague and think you can get away with it because it was a one-time thing and no one will know.

The Result: It turns out you had an affair with a totally craaazy person who proceeds to stalk you, ruin your life, and attempt to murder your wife. In the movies, cheating results in instant karma. It's pretty simple: if you cheat, a total psycho will make things pretty difficult for awhile!

The Breakfast Club

The Kind of Cheating: It's the most innocent kind of cheating -- you cheat on a test or an assignment. It's not that big of a deal...you just get a mark on your permanent record and have to spend a Saturday in detention.

The Result: Man, it turns out that detention was the best thing that could have happened to you! You learn that your fellow students are far more human and sympathetic than you ever imagined, and you come out of this whole debacle with a handful of new best friends.

Election

The Kind of Cheating: You've not only cheated on your wife, you've rigged the high school election for class president so your chosen candidate comes out on top...and you've been caught red-handed!

The Result: Your marriage ends in tears. Your career as an educator falls into shambles. A bee stings you in the eye. You move to New York and try to pick up the pieces of your life. But hey, at least you got that sweet gig as a museum tour guide!

What Lies Beneath

The Kind of Cheating: It's another case of "original recipe" cheating. You have an extramarital affair and things spiral out of control. But this time you make it all so much worse by murdering the woman you've been cheating with. Ugh. Way to go, jerk.

The Result: The ghost of your victim begins to haunt your home and hand clues to your increasingly paranoid wife. In the end, you drown at the bottom of a lake, pulled to your watery grave by your vengeful lover from beyond. Don't cheat, people.

The Other Woman

The Kind of Cheating: You don't only cheat on Leslie Mann with Cameron Diaz, you cheat on Cameron Diaz with Kate Upton. Maybe they should have seen it coming -- you do play Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones, after all.

The Result: Three very different women target you for revenge...and oh man, do they get it. Not only do all three of your relationships crash and burn, your white collar crimes are exposed and your career comes to an end. But you were asking for it, dude.

Gladiator

The Kind of Cheating: Oh, everyone's done it. You need to win favor with the people of the Roman Empire, so you mortally wound the most popular gladiator before you step into the ring with him. Guaranteed victory!

The Result: Uh, maybe not. You see, if you need to pre-stab your opponent before a big fight, chances are strong that you're not ready for the big battle to begin with. By cheating, all you do is get yourself killed in the arena by a slower, weaker opponent. How embarrassing for you!

Unfaithful

The Kind of Cheating: You know the drill. You're a beautiful middle-aged woman in a boring marriage who starts taking frequent trips into the city for a roll in the hay with your handsome French boy toy. What could possibly go wrong?

The Result: Oh, nothing much. Your husband will just find out about the whole thing and put a private detective on your tail. Then he'll murder your lover in a moment of passion and choose to turn himself in, wrecking any and all stability in your life. That old chestnut.

Cheaters

The Kind of Cheating: It's only the ultimate kind of school cheating! Your academic decathlon team snags a copy of the test in the next round of the competition, allowing you to take down your snobby rivals for good. You're cheating for the right reasons!

The Result: You get caught and ignite a media firestorm that gets your favorite teacher fired, ruins your school's reputation and threatens to derail your young and fragile life. At least your story got turned into a movie starring Jeff Daniels, but was it worth it?

Blood Simple

The Kind of Cheating: You know, it's just another typical extramarital affair. You enter a relationship with your husband's employee and  keep things nice and hidden. This is just another case where nothing could possibly go wrong.

The Result: Ha, you wish. Your cheating initially results in a private eye entering the picture, but it soon leads to murder after murder as the cases of mistaken identity begin to pile up. Soon, everyone in your life is dead and you literally have no idea what's going on or why a stranger is trying to kill you in your own home. The moral of the story? Um, don't cheat.

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Kind of Cheating: You name it. You cheated on your wife with another woman. You cheated your clients out of millions of dollars. You cheated the stock market and made even more millions of dollars. You're on top of the world!

The Result: But where has all of that ill-gotten success taken you? You're still strung out on quaaludes, unable to make it down a set of stairs without nearly killing yourself. You may be wealthy, but you're a strung-out mess who is an embarrassment to himself and his profession! But hey, at least you're still rich. Maybe you're on to something...