Movies Similar to The Polygamous Wazzou

Love for Share(2006)

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

The Last King of Scotland(2006)

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.

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Rajakili(2024)

A God fearing multi-millionaire gets his life in shambles and becomes mentally & physically challenged after an entanglement with two other women apart from his first wife.

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Raise the Red Lantern(1991)

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

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Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs(2014)

Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father, but some of his wives fight back to bring him to justice. Based on a true story.

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Sister Wives(2024)

Two young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society, Kaidence and Galilee, find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.

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Monsieur Verdoux(1947)

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.

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King of the Lost World(2005)

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.

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Moolaadé(2004)

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

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Umma(1960)

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.

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Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011)

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

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Abide with Me(2012)

After the Edmunds Tucker Act was passed, hundreds of Mormon men were arrested for polygamy or unlawful cohabitation and sent to prisons. Families were always on edge, wondering if Federal Marshals were going to come and turn their lives upside down. The faith and love of one such family will be put to the test in a story you will never forget.

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Eyes of Fire(1983)

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.

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The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping Polygamy, Part 1(2025)

Rena Chynoweth is thrust back into her dark past when a violent massacre, tied to the cult she was formerly part of, makes headlines. As a journalist probes her for the truth, Rena recounts her forced marriage to the cult’s abusive leader Ervil LeBaron, and her journey through manipulation, violence, and survival. With the weight of her past threatening to consume her new life, she is forced to face her role in the cult’s crimes and must decide whether to expose the truth or retreat into silence.

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The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping Polygamy, Part 2(2025)

Following a failed attack, Ervil’s rage reaches an all-time high and causes Rena to fear for her and her daughter’s safety. Determined to protect her daughter and break free from the horrific cult, Rena must navigate her way to safety without falling victim to Ervil’s paranoia or his violent followers. Against all odds, Rena finds the strength to break free from the cult’s grasps and escape with her daughter. Together, they begin a new life, determined to make amends for their role in the cult’s crimes. But will she ever really be able to escape the memory of Ervil? Part two of a two-part film.

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In God's Country(2007)

In God's Country is a modern day story of slavery. Young women ignored by the police and protected by "freedom of religion" are trapped in polygamous communities scattered throughout North America. Judith Joseph is one of them. Despite being raised under the watchful eyes of "God's Keepers" and knowing no other life, Judith realises she cannot watch her sixteen year old daughter succumb to the same fate she was born into. Desperate, with no other resources and no connections, Judith sets her house on fire and escapes with her five children. Alone, on the "outside", Judith is ill equipped to handle the challenges facing her, but she's determined to build a life.

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Bali(1970)

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...

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The 19th Wife(2010)

Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son Jordan for help in freeing his mother.

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Ten Dark Women(1961)

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.

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The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire(1991)

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?

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