🏷 Discover The Best Polygamy Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the Complex World of Polygamy on Screen

From documentaries to dramas, movies and TV shows have long been fascinated by the complex and often misunderstood world of polygamy. With its rich history and diverse cultural practices, polygamy has become a staple in many a filmmaker's toolkit. But what makes these stories so compelling, and where can you find the best examples of polygamy on screen?

Cast

Yumi Uchiyama

Tomokazu Sugita

Ai Kakuma

Ai Kayano

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021) TV Show

8.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 61

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn't end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he's always wanted. Armed with new friends, some freshly acquired magical abilities, and the courage to do the things he's always dreamed of, he's embarking on an epic adventure—with all of his past experience intact!

Style: erotic, absurd

Plot: magic, teleportation, reincarnation, polygamy, harem, romance, displacement, second chance, ...

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You

Cast

Wataru Katoh

Kaede Hondo

Miyu Tomita

Maria Naganawa

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You (2023) TV Show

8.2 200 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Rentaro Aijo was rejected 100 times in middle school. He visits a shrine and prays for better luck in high school. The God of Love appears and promises that he'll soon meet 100 people he's destined to date. But there's a catch—once destiny introduces someone to him, the two must happily love each other. If they don't, they'll die. What will befall Rentaro and his 100 girlfriends in high school?

Style: absurdist

Plot: high school, polygamy, harem, god, romcom, romance, school, breaking the fourth wall, ...

Cast

Gong Li

He Saifei

Cao Cuifen

Kong Lin

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

7.9 804 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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.

Plot: competition, marriage, romantic rivalry, polygamy, concubine, tragedy, wealth, period drama, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Taylor Kitsch

Betty Gilpin

Dane DeHaan

Saura Lightfoot-Leon

American Primeval (2025) TV Show

7.7 482 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.

Plot: bounty hunter, wyoming, usa, utah, polygamy, survival, miniseries, massacre, ...

Time: 19th century, 1850s

Place: america

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Mady Correll

Allison Roddan

Robert Lewis

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

7.7 477 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 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.

Plot: marriage, dark comedy, villain, polygamy, based on true story, film noir, serial killer, black and white, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Cast

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Warren Jeffs

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022) TV Show

7.5 133 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.

Plot: pedophilia, investigation, cult, polygamy, miniseries, statutory rape, pedophile, religious fundamentalism, ...

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

7.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Style: absurd

Plot: diplomat, naivety, based on novel or book, general, kidnapping, dictator, africa, mass murder, ...

Time: 1970s

Girlfriend, Girlfriend (2021) TV Show

7.2 80 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Naoya Mukai has loved Saki Saki since grade school, and when she finally accepts his feelings, he's at his happiest. But one day, a cute girl named Nagisa Minase confesses to him! Not wishing to choose only one over another, Naoya chooses to go out with both of them!! What will be of this love triangle that challenges morality itself?

Plot: love triangle, polygamy, romcom, slice of life, school, based on manga, school life, shounen, ...

Cast

Deborah Kerr

Yul Brynner

Rita Moreno

Martin Benson

The King and I (1956)

7.1 407 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: G

Story: Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens 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.

Plot: temple, widow, prime minister, letter, bangkok, thailand, palace, musical, ...

Cast

Bill Paxton

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Ginnifer Goodwin

Big Love (2006) TV Show

6.9 150 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 53

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.

Plot: big family, polygamy, religion, mormon

Cast

Elizabeth Olsen

Sarah Paulson

Hugh Dancy

John Hawkes

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

6.6 828 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: mind control, rape, sexual abuse, sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), paranoia, group sex, cult, ...

Panchali (2019) TV Show

5.0 1 votes

Country: India

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Story: A young man returns to his village and is expected to uphold a centuries-old tradition by marrying the same woman shared by his four brothers, forcing him to choose between family duty and his own beliefs.

Plot: polygamy