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?
1920年代の中国、 19歳の女学生・頌蓮（スンリェン）は、父親が亡くなった後実家が没落したため、陳佐千という富豪の第四夫人として嫁ぐことを余儀なくされた。彼の大邸宅に嫁入りした際には王室の様な待遇で、気持ちの良い足マッサージを受けた。屋敷の主人は、夜になり彼女の部屋に泊まる時門前に赤い提灯をかかげた。しかし頌蓮はすぐに全ての妾たちが同様の贅沢な待遇を受けていることに気づいた。主人は毎日どの妾の家で夜を過ごすかを決めるとその家の前に赤い提灯を灯し、その妾は足マッサージを受け、食事を決定したり下僕達の尊敬と服従を得ることができたのだ。
やがて、友情を築いたと思っていた第二夫人からの裏切りや、屋敷に出入りする医者と不倫をしていた第三夫人への凄惨な罰を目の当たりにし、主人の寵愛を巡る戦いの中で憔悴した頌蓮は次第に正気を失い、常軌を逸した行動に出るようになる…。
かつてのウガンダで独裁政治を行なったアミン大統領の内幕を大胆に脚色し、側近医師の目を通して描き出した社会派サスペンス。残虐な大統領をフォレスト・ウィテカー、権力に負ける医師をジェイムズ・マカヴォイが演じる。
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.
Chloe attends church and is immediately drawn to the pastor, Caleb. She falls in love with him, only to discover that he is married to two other women. When one of the wives mysteriously disappears, Chloe fears that she may be next.
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.
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.
大恐慌のために失業した銀行員ヴェルドゥの新事業とは? 結婚詐欺と連続殺人をブラック・ユーモアで描く異色のチャップリン喜劇。黒い笑いの中に込められているのは大量殺人に対する怒り……。
監督・市川崑、脚本・和田夏十の、浮気性の男と妻、そして９人の愛人たちが織りなすブラックコメディ。 テレビプロデューサーの風松吉は、美しい妻・双葉がいながら、９人の女と浮気していた。妻と愛人たちはお互いの存在をそれとなく知っており、松吉が浮気者であるという事も重々承知しているものの、なぜか松吉から離れられないでいた。 あるとき妻と舞台女優で愛人の市子とで松吉を殺す計画が持ち上がる。それは計画を立てることで松吉への鬱憤を晴らすための架空の計画であったのだが、気の小さい松吉は愛人たちが自分を殺そうとしていると思いこみ妻に相談する。妻はあっさり計画を認めた上で、二人で愛人を一掃するために、愛人を集めて松吉を糾弾する会を開き、その席上でピストルで松吉を殺したように見せかけるという狂言殺人を行うことにするが…。
Sister wives living on a secluded ranch decide to plot revenge against their abusive husband.
A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip until their communal living, outsider ideals and spiritual leader Father Yod's 13 wives became an issue with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise.
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 having children, love and polygamy. Bibi is 17 and already has a baby, 15-year-old Riki is determined to become a private detective in Paris - but she is determined to take the fireplace from her homestead in Africa with her overseas.
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.
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.
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.
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.
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.
Examines the strained dynamic between the three wives of the polygamous Mohammadi family, as cash-strapped Heda seeks to add a fourth wife.