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The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire(1991)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the "Golden Lotus." Men pursues the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing's jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, death, and depravity. Does karma or enlightenment await anyone?

Directed by Li Han-hsiang

The Last King of Scotland(2006)

2h 3min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 902 votes)

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald - With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo, ...
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The King and I(1956)

G
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure, Music
3.6/5 (with 156 votes)

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Directed by Walter Lang - With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Carlos Rivas, Martin Benson, Alan Mowbray, ...
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Raise the Red Lantern(1991)

2h 5min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 291 votes)

China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained. This competition gets out of hand.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, He Saifei

Monsieur Verdoux(1947)

2h 4min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 183 votes)

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Charlie Chaplin, Isobel Elsom, Edna Purviance, ...
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The Other Lamb(2020)

1h 37min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska - With Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough

Good King Dagobert(1963)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.

Directed by Pierre Chevalier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Jacques Dufilho, Anne-Marie Carrière, Darío Moreno, Darry Cowl, ...

Eyes of Fire(1983)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror, Western
2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

Directed by Avery Crounse - With Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd

Prophet's Prey(2015)

1h 28min | Crime, Documentary
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

Directed by Amy J. Berg

King of the Lost World(2005)

1h 25min | Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.

Directed by Leigh Scott - With Bruce Boxleitner, Steve Railsback, Thomas Downey, Leigh Scott, Eliza Swenson, Andrew Lauer, ...
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Ten Black Women(1961)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Fujiko Yamamoto, Jūzō Itami, Keiko Kishi, Kyōko Kishida, Tamao Nakamura, Eiji Funakoshi, ...

When Women Lost Their Tails(1972)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.

Directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile - With Senta Berger, Frank Wolff, Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Fiammetta Baralla, Aldo Puglisi, ...
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Lust, Lies, and Polygamy(2023)

Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Ellen believes she has the perfect life. When her new husband, Paul, isn’t traveling on business, he dotes on her and her daughter. But after a stranger is caught prowling around their house, things don’t add up. Why is Paul always away on business? And did he know the prowler? It's as if something, or someone, is taking over his priorities. Ellen begins to discover a web of lies that she must expose to in order to free herself and her daughter. That is, if Paul doesn’t stop her first.

Last Harem(1981)

1h 30min | Adventure, Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Prince Almalarik is a royalty building an extensive harem of European beauties. When his latest acquisition named Sara convinces him to abandon polygamy, the other wives conspire to get rid of the unwanted competition.

Directed by Sergio Garrone

Kuma: The Second Wife(2012)

1h 33min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Fatma is around 50, a housewife with six children. She lives in Vienna but grew up in Turkey and clings stubbornly to the traditions and values of the old country. Ayse is 19, and the film begins with her wedding in rural Turkey, to Fatma’s son Hasan. However, when the family takes Ayse to Vienna this is revealed as a c harade… for Ayse is to be the kuma (second wife) of Fatma’s husband Mustafa.

Directed by Umut Dağ - With Nihal Koldaş, Vedat Erincin, Murathan Muslu, Abdulkadir Tuncer

The Second Wife(1967)

1h 45min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

Directed by Salah Abu Seif - With Soad Hosni

Bali(1970)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...

Directed by Paolo Heusch, Ugo Liberatore - With John Steiner, Laura Antonelli, Umberto Orsini, Ilona Staller, Ettore Manni, Johannes Schaaf, ...

I, Jane Doe(1948)

NR
| 1h 25min | Crime
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

Directed by John H. Auer - With Ruth Hussey

Monogamish(2017)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Recovering from a heartbreaking divorce, independent filmmaker and son-of-an-Italian-Prince Tao Ruspoli takes to the road to talk to his relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists, and ordinary couples about love, sex & monogamy in our culture. What he discovers about his very unconventional family, and about the history and psychology of love and marriage leads him to question the ideal of monogamy, and the traditional family values that go with it.

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Madu Tiga(1964)

1h 40min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Jamil, already married decided to get a second wife, Hasnah, without Latifah's permission. Latifah came to know about it went to his wedding ceremony and created a big chaos. Jamil ran away and stayed low key for few days in a hotel thinking of his next move. Just when everything was calm and smooth, Jamil met Rohani and it was love at first sight. Jamil decided to get married... again. Will love prevail?

Directed by P. Ramlee - With P. Ramlee

Why Knot(2014)

1h 24min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Why do human beings get married in almost every society in the world? Why do we cheat? Why is monogamy so important to a relationship and why does infidelity cause so much grief? These are some of the questions acclaimed documentary filmmaker Dhruv Dhawan confronts in his next feature length documentary which explores why human beings evolved cultures of marriage and monogamy that are rife with infidelity. As he attends various lavish weddings occurring within his family, Dhruv is pestered to follow suit but is haunted by his family’s history of infidelity, as well as his own and embarks on a personal quest to discover the origins of marriage, the reasons for monogamy and the pain of infidelity as he tries to mediate an open relationship with the woman he loves. Dhruv’s search takes us on a journey into the biology of sex, the history of patriarchy and the politics of monogamy told through the lives of scientists, swingers, adulterers and Dhruv’s own family.

Umma(1960)

Drama

An illiterate rich landlord Aboobacker Haji married three times and divorced all the three wives. His next aim is to get married again which according to traditions will be his last marriage.

Directed by Kunchacko - With Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, K. P. Ummer

The Ernie Game(1968)

1h 28min | Drama, Crime
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their parents' home but still has not made an home of his own. Our protagonist’s alienation is palpable; for him life is a game, not because he chooses to make it so, but because he is unable to make anything more of it. But for those who befriend him and eventually turn him loose again, his game is not enough.

Directed by Don Owen - With Alexis Kanner

Mother(s)(2015)

21min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The 8-year-old Aida lives in an apartment in the Parisian suburb. The daily life of Aida and the whole family is overwhelmed when her father comes back from Senegal, their country of origin. Actually, he did not come back alone. He returned with the young Senegalese Rama whom he introduced as his second wife. Aida is very sensitive to her mother's distress. She decides then to get rid of the new visitor.

Directed by Maïmouna Doucouré

Four Wives - One Man(2007)

1h 16min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Examines the strained dynamic between the three wives of the polygamous Mohammadi family, as cash-strapped Heda seeks to add a fourth wife.

Directed by Nahid Persson Sarvestani

The Matrimonial Bed(1930)

NR
| 1h 9min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Frank Fay, Lilyan Tashman, Florence Eldridge, Beryl Mercer, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Vivien Oakland, ...
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Love for Share(2006)

2h 7min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.

Directed by Nia Dinata - With Jajang C. Noer

A Mormon Maid(1917)

1h 8min | History, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Hobart Bosworth, Mae Murray, Edythe Chapman, Richard Henry Cummings, Frank Borzage, Noah Beery, Sr., ...

The Polygamous Wazzou(1971)

35min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An Islamic faithfull returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title “el hadji”. On his return he falls in love with his daughter’s friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married to Garba. El Hadji however already has two wives and his second wife, Gaika, cannot stand the idea of another younger wife entering her house. She plots to kill Santou.

Directed by Oumarou Ganda

A Wife Among Wives(1981)

1h 12min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part is taken up by talks between the Turkana people. As one of the first ethnographic documentaries "A Wife Among Wives" subtitles these talks so that the viewer can get a better and probably more personal understanding of the life of the Turkana.

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