Dani, a twenty-five year old child of divorce, returns home to help her father move out of what used to be their family house. As she packs up her childhood bedroom, reminiscing on saddling herself with packed bags and moving her life week by week, she thinks about a time when her parents must have been more in love than ever- their wedding day. Taken back into the 90's, Dani experiences her parent's special day through the eyes of the donkey that carried her mother to the altar. As Dani sees her mother and father through a new perspective, she has a newfound understanding of their individuality and an appreciation for the vast love that originally created her, however broken it may be back in present day.
Another very isolated region, Mariovo, appears as a setting of the customs that must be performed before, during and after a wedding for the couple to fully unite.
Laila Lives in a fake eastern society where all women should wear a veil and the only way of marriage is to be selected by a man, she refuses this tradition and gets involved in a forbidden love story.
A 1973 short film about how a woman pediatrician changes her marriage into a partnership.
Samantha is a worn-out caregiver finally home from a long day. Jared is a workaholic bartender just heading out for a long shift. These ships passing in the night have a marriage on the rocks, and Clarence is in the middle.
The 'grand marriage' is an age-old institution which has been passed from generation to generation on the islands of Grande Comore, Moheli and Anjouan. It's a symbol of social status on the islands and a must for any self-respecting Comoran, a commitment not even the President of the Republic can avoid embracing.
A husband believes that love will fade and all marriages go downhill over the years. His wife and two other couples plot to make him think that she is about to run off with another man. Faced with the possible loss of his wife, he realizes that he still loves her.
A man looks back on his life at what was and what could have been.
First feature film in Alagoas state, Brazil. A girl waits for a streetcar. A gentleman offers her a ride. In front of her home, he invistes her for a walk at sunday.
In China, it is hard for a divorced or widowed woman to find a good new husband, especially for those who have kids. For thousands of years, this phenomenon has been rooted in the profound Chinese culture. Though losing something, if not all, those women are still longing for love, one of the only things that can provide warmth to them. They want to give their descendants a family with a father who can fill in the gap of fatherly love. Export My Love is a cross-continent love-seeking story between the East and West. Shot in both China and America, this documentary follows four Chinese women who try to pursue love by finding U.S. husbands. Although they've never been to the U.S. before and most of them cannot speak English, they try their best to overcome these barriers and start new lives.
Having an architect for a father came in handy on Beris Wrinch's wedding day. A special bridge was designed so the wedding party could reach the marquee in style.
The film revolves around an unhappy married man who seeks the help of a Casanova to seduce his wife and get her to ask for a divorce.
Married at the Mall is a documentary that features an assortment of lovebirds who tie the knot at the Chapel of Love in the Mall of America. It's a story that answers the question: "Who would get married at a mall?" Minnesota filmmaker Melody Gilbert spent a year videotaping this documentary featuring quirky personalities, offbeat love stories and traditional bliss in an untraditional setting. Find out who gets married while everyone else is shopping. Vegas, shmegas!
I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don't really get it. Maybe we don't understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it's meant to be felt.
Loving your children, spouse and ageing parents (in that order, please don’t tell my mother) is very hard work, very intense and a lot of the time it sucks. But who wants to live without love? The highly anticipated debut from the host of BBCR4’s Comedy of the Week podcast. As seen on QI (BBC2), Have I Got News for You (BBC1) and Alan Davies As Yet Untitled (Dave), and heard on the The Guilty Feminist podcast.
For 63 years, Tom Rose and his wife, Mary, built a life together on his family farm on Canaanville Road. Then last year Mary passed away, leaving Rose to face the future alone, surrounded by a lifetime of memories.
A wealthy man takes a grieving widow as his wife, buying her from her father-in-law, although the widow wants to remain true to her late husband's memory. Fortunately, the rich man's daughter admires and sympathizes with the filial widow, helps her hide in the countryside and then covertly gives her enough money to flee elsewhere and maintain her chastity.
"First Comes Love" is the story of a shy boy, Eric, who is dragged through stages of "marriage" by an obsessive girl, Zoey, all throughout the course of recess.
This film Takes a journey inside the mind of a cheating wife and the challenges she faces leading a double life. This is a cautionary tale about where the pursuit of happiness can take you.
Three friends give up debauchery and gambling and get hired in the house of a millionaire man. One of these three, who is in love with the millionaire's daughter, is deeply saddened by the fact that he has to keep silent because of an unintentional murder he committed years ago. The objection of the millionaire man to marrying off his daughter leads to his murder, and the three friends are accused of this murder with the evidence obtained.