Arranged Marriages
  • Marie Antoinette picture
    Movies

    Marie Antoinette (2006)

    An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) becomes queen of France, then later loses her head during the...

  • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement picture
    Movies

    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

    While living with her royal grandmother (Julie Andrews), a young princess (Anne Hathaway) must find...

  • Lorna's Silence picture
    Movies

    Lorna's Silence (2009)

    Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her...

  • Castaway picture
    Movies

    Castaway (1987)

    Tired of her a job, a clerk responds to an ad from a middle-aged man requesting companionship on a...

  • Water picture
    Movies

    Water (2006)

    Just as Mahatma Gandhi's tenets begin to sweep through India, an 8-year-old must go to live in an...

  • The Piano picture
    Movies

    The Piano (1993)

    The mute wife (Holly Hunter) of a settler (Sam Neill) teaches her lover (Harvey Keitel) to play the...

  • Coming to America picture
    Movies

    Coming to America (1988)

    Pampered Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) of Zamunda comes to New York with his royal sidekick (Arsenio...

  • Monsoon Wedding picture
    Movies

    Monsoon Wedding (2002)

    Several love stories come into play as a family in New Delhi prepares for a daughter's upcoming...

  • Original Sin picture
    Movies

    Original Sin (2001)

    A Cuban tycoon (Antonio Banderas) enters a world of deception after marrying a beautiful mail-order...

  • Call Me Madam picture
    Movies

    Call Me Madam (1953)

    A Washington hostess (Ethel Merman) falls for a foreign minister (George Sanders) after being named...

  • Birthday Girl picture
    Movies

    Birthday Girl (2002)

    A bank manager (Ben Chaplin) obtains a dangerous and mysterious mail-order bride (Nicole Kidman)...

  • The Swan picture
    Movies

    The Swan (1956)

    A European princess (Grace Kelly) waltzes with her tutor (Louis Jourdan) but is destined to marry a...

  • The Color Purple picture
    Movies

    The Color Purple (1985)

    A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after suffering years of...

  • Queen Margot picture
    Movies

    Queen Margot (1994)

    The sister (Isabelle Adjani) of Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) of France must wed Protestant Henri...

  • Beyond the Rocks picture
    Movies

    Beyond the Rocks (1922)

    A woman (Gloria Swanson) married to a wealthy man has an affair with a handsome nobleman (Rudolph...

  • The Namesake picture
    Movies

    The Namesake (2007)

    The son (Kal Penn) of East Indian immigrants (Tabu, Irrfan Khan) feels caught between American...

  • Fiddler on the Roof picture
    Movies

    Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

    A poor Jewish milkman (Topol) and his wife (Norma Crane) try to marry off their five daughters in...

  • The Love Parade picture
    Movies

    The Love Parade

    The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

  • Brick Lane picture
    Movies

    Brick Lane (2008)

    Stuck in a loveless arranged marriage, a Muslim seamstress (Tannishtha Chatterjee) in London embarks...

  • Arranged picture
    Movies

    Arranged (2007)

    A Jewish and a Muslim woman meet and realize that they have a lot in common.

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    Movies

    Yentl (1983)

    A young woman (Barbra Streisand) charms her bearded roommate (Mandy Patinkin) and a merchant's...

  • Edge of Madness picture
    Movies

    Edge of Madness

    In the 1850's, Annie McKillop decides that an arranged marriage is a better alternative to the...

  • The Swan Princess picture
    Movies

    The Swan Princess (1994)

    A vengeful wizard curses a princess to exist as a swan by day until her prince declares his undying...

  • Sweet Land picture
    Movies

    Sweet Land (2006)

    A German mail-order bride in 1920s Minnesota encounters suspicion and scorn when she arrives to...

  • Petey Wheatstraw picture
    Movies

    Petey Wheatstraw

    In this slapstick blaxploitation feature, Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore, aka "Mr. Dolomite") is a...

  • Night of Henna picture
    Movies

    Night of Henna (2005)

    A beautiful Pakistani woman has to make choice between her true love or an arranged marriage by her...

  • Chunhyang picture
    Movies

    Chunhyang (2000)

    In late 18th century Korea, during the Chosun Dynasty, Mongryong, the son of a governor, falls in...

  • Fontane Effi Briest picture
    Movies

    Fontane Effi Briest (1977)

    A young beauty married to an older man has a brief, and eventually tragic, affair.

  • A Price Above Rubies picture
    Movies

    A Price Above Rubies (1998)

    An Orthodox Jew (Renée Zellweger) challenges religious traditions with her husband (Glenn...

  • The Householder picture
    Movies

    The Householder

    A young Hindi couple's difficulties intensify when the groom's possessive mother moves in.