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Corpse Bride(2005)

PG
| 1h 17min | Romance / Love, Fantasy, Animation
3.8/5 (with 3,939 votes)

Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

The Woman King(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 24min | Action, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 729 votes)

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood - With Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, John Boyega, Adrienne Warren, Sheila Atim, ...

Mulan II(2004)

3.3/5 (with 1,049 votes)

Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Chang'an, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family.

Directed by Darrell Rooney

The Last Emperor(1987)

PG-13
| 2h 43min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 712 votes)

A dramatic history of Puyi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

The Lover(1992)

R
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 274 votes)

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Marie Antoinette(2006)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 1,185 votes)

A retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette, from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Journey to Bethlehem(2023)

PG
| 1h 38min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young woman carrying an unimaginable responsibility. A young man torn between love and honor. A jealous king who will stop at nothing to keep his crown.

Directed by Adam Anders - With Fiona Palomo, Milo Manheim, Lecrae, Joel Smallbone, Antonio Banderas

Lady Macbeth(2017)

R
| 1h 26min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 326 votes)

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

The Piano(1993)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 632 votes)

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

Harold and Maude(1971)

PG
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 456 votes)

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Dangerous Liaisons(1988)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 486 votes)

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Alpha and Omega(2010)

2.9/5 (with 228 votes)

Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.

Directed by Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
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Mustang(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 624 votes)

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven - With Elit İşcan, Nihal Koldaş, Ayberk Pekcan, Burak Yiğit, Günes Sensoy, Tugba name is live, ...

The Leopard(1963)

3h 6min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 329 votes)

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

The Breadwinner(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Animation, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 351 votes)

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Directed by Nora Twomey

The Royal Exchange(2017)

1h 41min | History, Drama
3.1/5 (with 71 votes)

After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games….

TiMER(2009)

3.1/5 (with 96 votes)

In this comedic fantasy, science has facilitated the search for a soul mate via biotechnological implants that count down to the moment one is supposed to meet his or her match. But Oona is worried: She's nearly 30, and her TiMER isn't ticking yet. Will her dream guy get snatched up by someone else?

My Little Bride(2004)

3.7/5 (with 40 votes)

Boeun is an ordinary high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, Jungwoo. One day, Boeun's grandfather orders her to marry Sangmin because of a pact he made with Sangmin's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite the grandchildren's opposition, they are forced to marry because of Boeun's grandfather's strong influence. She pretends that she doesn't have a husband and starts dating Jungwoo. Everything goes smoothly until Sangmin visits Boeun's school as a student teacher. There a teacher called Miss.Kim flirts with Sangmin and she later finds out that Sangmin and Boeun are married.

Directed by Kim Ho-jun - With Moon Geun-young, Kim Rae-won

Coming Home(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, Shan Sa, Yan Ni, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen, Liu Peiqi, ...

Apur Sansar(1959)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding...

Jab We Met(2007)

PG-13
| 2h 18min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 108 votes)

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky and care-free young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

Catherine Called Birdy(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 31 votes)

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

The Long, Hot Summer(1958)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

The Third Wife(2019)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.

Directed by Ash Mayfair - With Trần Nữ Yên Khê, Như Quỳnh, Maya, Trung Anh

Monsoon Wedding(2001)

R
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 86 votes)

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.

Blind Dating(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 82 votes)

Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother sets him up on a series of blind dates, but all of them go disastrously wrong. Just when Danny is about to give up, he meets Leeza, a nurse who works for Danny's doctor. There is just one catch: Leeza, who is from India, is promised to another man.

The Namesake(2006)

2h 2min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 66 votes)

After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture. Although parents Ashoke and Ashima are proud of the sacrifices they make to give their children opportunities, their son Gogol strives to forge his own identity without forgetting his heritage.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice(1952)

1h 55min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country. After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece rebelling against the tradition of arranged marriages.

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women(2014)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 94 votes)

The film is set in a world, the Popular Democratic Republic of Bubunne, in which women hold the power and men are forced to wear veils and stay at home.

Maborosi(1995)

1h 50min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 63 votes)

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

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