Mail Order brides modern (not Old west)
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1. Birthday Girl (2001)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride.
Director: Jez Butterworth | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Vincent Cassel, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz
Votes: 26,334 | Gross: $4.92M
2. Mail Order Wife (2004)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A documentarian funds an N.Y.C. doorman's East Asian mail-order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
Directors: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland | Stars: Adrian Martinez, Roland Uruci, Andrew Gurland, Eugenia Yuan
Votes: 1,384 | Gross: $0.06M
3. 2 Brothers & a Bride (2003)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.
Director: Helmut Schleppi | Stars: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Emily Mortimer, Lois Smith
Votes: 1,122 | Gross: $0.03M
4. Russian Doll (2001)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Harvey, a neurotic private investigator and wannabe crime writer, gets asked to marry his best friend's mistress.
Director: Stavros Kazantzidis | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalia Novikova, David Wenham, Rebecca Frith
Votes: 493 | Gross: $0.13M
5. Sweet Land (2005)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski
Votes: 4,151 | Gross: $1.71M
6. Brides (2004)
128 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Andréa Ferréol, Evi Saoulidou
Votes: 5,003
7. Love Possibly (2018)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A fly-on-the-wall documentary film crew follow Alex, a hopelessly romantic, rom-com obsessed virgin on a quest to find love. Alex quickly finds himself out of his depth when Lana, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Boccalini, Che Grant | Stars: Steve Hodgetts, Anna Danshina, Julie Nesher, Michelle Thomas
Votes: 129
8. Mail Order Bride (2003)
R | 84 min | Comedy
Anthony Santini, nephew of Mob boss Tony Santini, is sent to Russia to find a gorgeous mail-order bride who scammed five would-be grooms out of their money. One of them is part of ''the family'' and it's up to Anthony to set things right.
Directors: Robert Capelli Jr., Jeffrey Wolf | Stars: Danny Aiello, Robert Capelli Jr., Ivana Milicevic, Artie Lange
Votes: 340
9. Mail Order Bride (1984 TV Movie)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
When a Filipino mail order bride arrives in a small town outside of Sydney she becomes aware of cultural differences by way of the inherent sexism and racism of her husband and his mates. ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Ray Meagher, Charito Ortez, Paul Sonkkila, Sheila Kennelly
Votes: 17
10. You Are So Beautiful (2005)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When farmer Aymé Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. In quest of a new spouse, he goes to Romania where he meets Elena.
Director: Isabelle Mergault | Stars: Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Wladimir Yordanoff, Benoît Turjman
Votes: 3,128
11. The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
R | 107 min | Drama
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
Director: David Beaird | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Simon Callow, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 547
12. Closer to Home (1995)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Nobile | Stars: Madeline Ortaliz, John Michael Bolger, Elizabeth Bracco, Ralph Buckley
Votes: 66
13. Natasha Mail Order Bride Escape to America: The Movie
Comedy | Pre-production
Natasha, from the Fourth-World country of Crapistan, is a modern-day Lucille Ball. She comes to America by accident when an unsuspecting, socially-inept Internet mogul has a "Hangover II" ... See full summary »
Director: Brooke Forbes | Stars: Renée Taylor, Ken Davitian, Robert Miano, Larry Thomas
14. A Silent Love (2004)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Director: Federico Hidalgo | Stars: Noel Burton, Vanessa Bauche, Susana Salazar, Maka Kotto
Votes: 171
15. Bride of the Orient (1989)
94 min | Drama
After the death of his mother, farmer Windleter feels very lonely on his small mountain farm in Switzerland. Chances to find a wife in the small village are nil - a life with him would mean... See full summary »
Director: Urs Odermatt | Stars: Wolfram Berger, Arunotai Jitreekan, Werner Herzog, Mathias Gnädinger
Votes: 29
16. Picture Brides (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Four "Picture Brides" from New Orleans arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. On ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey, Dorothy Libaire, Alan Hale
Votes: 112
17. Dawn Porter (2008– )
47 min | Documentary
Dawn Porter travels around the world to find some of the extreme ways in which women find love and the relationships they have with men.
Star: Dawn O'Porter
Votes: 34
18. Abie's Imported Bride (1925)
Comedy
Abie Lavisky, the son of a wealthy Jewish textile mill owner, hears about the plight of Jews in Russia, who are starving and oppressed. He decides to raise money to help them, comes up with... See full summary »
Director: Roy Calnek
19. Bratva
Thriller | Announced
When a young Russian mail-order bride goes missing in Boston, her impoverished mother and sister rush to America to search for her. The sister then infiltrates a Russian-Mob-controlled ... See full summary »
21. My Online Bride (2014 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
Director: Emma Young | Star: Billie Piper
Votes: 95
22. Ukraine Brides 2000 (2000)
TV-PG | 70 min | Documentary
In 2000, Nili Tali produced a film about Israeli men traveling to the Ukraine in search of young wives. Eight years on, she returns to see what's happened to the couples since.
Director: Nili Tal
23. The Russian Bride (2018)
101 min | Horror, Thriller
A Russian woman meets an older man on a dating site. She travels to America with her daughter to marry the man, who is a reclusive billionaire. He turns out to be a psycho, who sends their lives spiraling into a living hell.
Director: Michael S. Ojeda | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan, Kristina Pimenova, Lisa Goodman
Votes: 4,178
24. Italian Bride (2014–2015)
45 min | Drama, Romance
An italian girl moves to Mexico with her younger sister where she agrees to marry a man who will cover their needs.
Stars: Livia Brito, José Ron, Isela Vega, Ela Velden
Votes: 154
25. Syrian Bride (2004)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the... See full summary »
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhom
Votes: 3,479 | Gross: $0.38M
26. Russian Bride (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Russian girl Tanya wants to find love, happiness and prosperity in America and places her ad in a Catalog of Russian Brides published in USA. Her ad is picked up by a middle-aged ... See full summary »
Director: Natasha Guruleva | Stars: Elena Roth, Richard Virga, John Dohrmann, Renee Colwell
Votes: 25
27. The Russian Bride (2001 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Christopher, a middle-aged man who is obsessed with repairing old radios, marries the Russian bride Natasha. She comes to live with him and his mother Dora in his London house. Dora ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Lia Williams, Sheila Hancock, Douglas Hodge, Alex Giannini
Votes: 54
29. Russian Brides (1999 TV Movie)
Documentary
Mark Norris is 42, divorced, and disillusioned with modern relationships. He lives in the city, but his heart is in cyberspace. He believes in love, but a more old fashioned, romantic type ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Dennison | Star: Mark Norris
30. The Making of 'The Syrian Bride' (2005 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Salim Abu Jabal, Ashraf Barhom, Alon Dahan
32. The Japanese Wife (2012)
67 min | Documentary
Hariprobha Basu Mallik (1890-1972) of Dhaka married Japanese citizen Wemon Takeda and went to Japan in 1912. About her travel and experiences in Japan she wrote a book titled as "Travel in ... See full summary »
Director: Tanvir Mokammel | Stars: Chitralekha Guho, Syed Shabab Ali Arzoo, Hariprobha Takeda
Votes: 11
33. My Online Bride (2014 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
Director: Emma Young | Star: Billie Piper
Votes: 95
34. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux documents some of the US's most bizarre happenings, events and rituals, by getting involved himself.
Stars: Louis Theroux, David Paul, J.J. Michaels, Randy James
Votes: 3,330
35. Louis Theroux: Selling Sex (2020 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour.
Director: Joshua Baker | Stars: Louis Theroux, Victoria, Ashleigh, Georgina
Votes: 703
36. Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars (2012 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
In 1997, Louis made a documentary on the booming Californian porn industry. In 2012, he returns to find an industry that has been decimated by illegal Internet tube sites.
Director: Jason Massot | Stars: Louis Theroux, Xander Corvus, Brad Armstrong, Alexa Nicole
Votes: 1,688
37. Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel (2003 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
Louis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks.
Director: Geoffrey O'Connor | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 1,768
38. Picture Bride (1994)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.
Director: Kayo Hatta | Stars: Yûki Kudô, Akira Takayama, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tamlyn Tomita
Votes: 1,185 | Gross: $1.24M
39. My Online Bride (2014 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
Director: Emma Young | Star: Billie Piper
Votes: 95
40. The Harvey Girls (1946)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 4,862
41. Flower Drum Song (1961)
Approved | 133 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo
Votes: 3,708 | Gross: $10.90M
42. Mail Order Bride (1964)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Western
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton, Warren Oates
Votes: 592
43. Mail Order Bride (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 88 min | Romance, Western
Diana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. She takes the place of her dying friend, who was to become some man's mail-order bride. Can she pull off this last con?
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Daphne Zuniga, Greg Evigan, Cameron Bancroft, Vincent Gale
Votes: 501
44. The Substitute Wife (1994 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Lea Thompson, Peter Weller, Karis Paige Bryant
Votes: 588
45. Operation Repo Wife
Reality-TV | Pre-production
When a mail-order-bride becomes a Repo wife. A slightly funny, and emotional look into the international marriage broker market, when clients who purchase for a life partner don't pay their... See full summary »
Star: Lisa Pearl
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