Movies and TvShows featuring "mail-order-wife" theme.

After losing his wife to cancer, a misogynist man in Los Angeles forms an unexpected connection with a mail-order bride from China, forcing him to confront his deeply ingrained beliefs and find redemption in the process.

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.