Movies: Polygamy

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 Wif...

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....

On April 19, 1993, in Waco, Texas, after several attempts at talks and negotiations, the American authorities stormed Mount Carmel, the religious campus of the prophet David Koresh at the head of the Davidian sect....

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

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 wive...

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

In 1950s Makassar, the life of a devoted mother is upended when another woman enters her husband's life....

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Subramani decides to solve his uncle's problem whose 2 wives are always at loggerheads. Without revealing his true identity, he poses as a doctor. Now both wives fight to marry their daughters to him....

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....

Gugu is being thrown out by her husband Themba, who is apparently having an affair with an ex-girlfriend. She crashes at a friend’s house, confronts the ex, and eventually calls in her uncle to mediate with Themba....

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 ...

The film tells the story of two POC teenagers from a traditional polygamous family, daughters of a father and different mothers from the same homestead: interior views from a distant everyday life. Two young women, their hopes, fears and dreams of ha...