En genert bankfunktionær bestiller en russisk postordrebrud og oplever, at hans liv bliver vendt på hovedet.
Louis Durand er en velhavende tobaksproducent, der er bosiddende i det Indiske Ocean. Men rigdom er ikke alt, og Durand er en ensom mand. Derfor indrykker han en kontaktannonce i en avis, og kommer da også i forbindelse med en kvinde, der ligesom Durand søger kærligheden og glæden i et andet menneskes selskab. Efter en tid med brevveksling beslutter de to sig for at mødes, men da kvinden ankommer til Durands bopæl, er hun ikke den, som Durand korresponderede med. Sådan tager et indviklet mysterium sin begyndelse.
En smuk russisk kvinde kommer via en kontaktside i kontakt med en ældre, amerikansk mand. Hun bider på tilbuddet om ægteskab og pakker taskerne for at rejse til USA, men efter brylluppet bliver manden voldelig, og en skræmmende plan sættes i værk.
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
Nobody likes to be made a fool of, especially no the mafia. So, when it comes to light that a number of men from The Mob in New York have fallen for a Russian mail-order bride, who has blatantly ripped each of them off, their boss is not impressed. In fact, Tony Santini thinks the only way to prove that you shouldn't mess with the mob is to send his nephew to Russia to bring back the beautiful but manipulative Nina.
Russian mail order bride tries to balance her love life with her rich but morally bankrupt husband and her scruffy yet charming paramour.
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.
Ever since she was a little girl, growing up in the fourth world country of Crapistan, Natasha has devoured all things American. Finally, through the wonders of the Internet, she finds her way to a Bel Air mansion and into the loving arms of a socially inept Internet mogul. With her own "How to Be an American" scrapbook as a guide, every week, Natasha, the upbeat optimist, takes on a new, impossible challenge with wide-eyed enthusiasm.
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
Love Me follows Western men and Ukrainian women as they embark on an unpredictable and riveting journey in search of love through the modern "mail-order bride" industry.
An estimated 15 million Brits are currently looking for a partner online. Thanks to the internet and social media, the whole world is now open for love. From Thai romance tours to speed-dating in the Ukraine, will they find 'the one'? And having parted with thousands of pounds, can they really put a price on love?
Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. 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, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.