10 Polygamy Movies On Lifetime To Watch

10 Polygamy movies on Lifetime are 1. In God’s Country 2. Escaping Polygamy 3. Outlaw Prophet Warren Jeffs and 7 others.

Lifetime, an American basic cable channel, offers a wide range of movies, television shows, and series, such as Marrying Millions, Little Woman Atlanta, Married At First Sight, and many more.

It is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearts Communications.

Lifetime focuses on programming centered on women or features women in leading roles. It is a platform where honest, true stories important to women are delivered meaningfully.

The network has produced content on foster care, child abuse, AIDS, cancer, and polygamy. Every series on the network is about what’s real to the contemporary woman, highlighting true experiences.

Today we talk about some of the popular polygamy movies you can enjoy on the network. Polygamy is the practice of having multiple spouses.

10. Infidelity Can Be Fatal (2023)

• Director: Danny J. Boyle
• Stars: Lanie McAuley, Matthew MacCaull, Alana Hawley Purvis, Carly Fawcett
• IMDb Rating: 5.0
• Runtime: 1h 27m

Infidelity Can Be Fatal is Lifetime’s newest thriller movie which premiered on the channel on Friday, April 7, 2023.

The film is about a private investigator, Lucy(McAuley), who specializes in exposing cheating husbands. Due to her work nature, her best friends and husband have a hard time setting her up with a guy.

Soon, she gets involved with a wealthy and handsome Clive Cassel, who has hired her to investigate if his wife, Adriana, is cheating on him. Now, things begin to get complicated.

She tracks his wife for days but doesn’t find any clue of her cheating on Clive. Then one day, she receives some photos on her phone of her kissing Clive. She learns she is being followed.

And while she thought she has met the love of her life in an unexpected encounter, it turns out to be her worst nightmare.

Viewers have found the thriller well-paced with a good amount of suspense. It has received both positive and negative reviews from fans.

One IMDb review concerning the cast members reads, “Their acting is anywhere from overly dramatic to reactive to middling. Their characters range from obvious thriller tags to overt stereotypes.”

9. The Other Wife (2016)

• Director: Nick Lyon
• Stars: Kimberley Hews, Tonya Kay, Christine Sclafani
• IMDb Rating: 5.3
• Runtime: 1h 31m

Nick Lyon’s drama thriller movie The Other Wife, written by Delondra Mesa and Adam Meyer, was released on March 13, 2016.

Kimberly appears in the lead role of Kate, who is devastated to learn that her beloved husband, Billy Jennings (George Stumpf), has been living a double life -married to another woman.,

To her surprise, her husband’s much younger wife, Deb Stanton (Tonya), is expecting a child.

She finds out about Billys’s other marriage after his passing. Even worse, a killer is after the two windows because he thinks they might have the money their late husband stole from him.

The thriller movie received mixed reviews from the viewers. Some fans have found the movie good as it shows the bond created by two damsels in distress while others are displeased with the plot and dialogue.

Nick Principe, Lisa Goodman, Molly Berg, Doug Burch, Mark Grossman, Clint Jung, Candice Bolek, and Melanie Martin also appear in the movie.

8. Stalked By My Husband’s Ex (2020)

• Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
• Stars: Alex McKenna, Joey Rae Blair, Adam Huss
• IMDb Rating: 5.3
• Runtime: 1h 29m

Stalked by My Husband’s Ex, also known as Another Mother, is written by Scott Collette and Dave Hickey.

This Lifetime thriller movie tells the story of hospitality queen Kristen Carter (McKenna), who couldn’t be happier to marry Ryan Munson (Adam Huss) after accepting his proposal.

She is more excited to become a mother to Ryan’s ten-year-old daughter, Lisa, from his ex-wife Nina Munson, an alcoholic, a parolee, who dresses like a borderline homeless person.

As she gets engaged to the man, strange things start to happen around her, which makes her worry if she’ll ever see her wedding day. She learns Nina is pseudo-psychotic and wants her daughter back.

Many viewers call the film a decent thriller from Lifetime. “They don’t waste much time getting to the point which is appreciated, “ said a fan.

7. The 19th Wife (2010)

• Director: Rob Holcomb
• Stars: Chyler Leigh, Matt Czuchry, Alexia Fast, Patricia Wettig
• IMDb Rating: 5.5
• Runtime: 1h 35m

The 19th Wife is an American drama television written by Richard Friedenberg, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by David Eberchoff.

It aired on September 13, 2010, on Lifetime. The film revolves around BeckyLyn (Patricia Wettig), a Fundamentalist sect member accused of killing her polygamist husband.

Another wife in the polygamist sect, Queenie (Leigh), doesn’t believe she is capable of such violence and stands by her innocence. She and Jordan (Czuchry), BeckyLyn’s son, work together to clear her name.

The Huffington Post praised the cast for bringing “life and credence” to this thrilling story of murder and faith.

“It is fascinating to watch from beginning to end not just because of the “whodunit” factor but also because of the religious implications,” the review continued.

However, the author of the original novel, Ebsershoff, was not pleased with the film over the significant plot alterations the producers made. “I had no role in the adaptation,” he said in an interview.

Yet he hopes the movie sends people to the original book so that they can meet his Jordan with his boyfriend, Tom, and their loving dogs, Joey, and Elektra.

6. All My Husband’s Wife (2019)

• Director: Caroline Labreche
• Stars: Kelly Rutherford, Erin Karpluk, Kate Corbett
• IMDb Rating: 5.5
• Runtime: 1h 30m

All My Husband’s Wife, alternatively titled Rule of 3, aired on December 1, 2019, on Lifetime. Labreche directed the film from the screenplay by James Phillips.

The film focuses on Alison Whitford (Karpluk), an accomplished career woman, the main protagonist, and plot-twist main villainess. She resisted getting married until she found her special one.

Dominick (Trevor Hayes) was everything she had ever hoped for in a husband. Still, in the honeymoon stage of her marriage, her life takes an unwanted turn when her man passes away in a car accident.

She later finds he was murdered and more secrets about his life come to light. Soon, it becomes clear that she was not the only wife mourning his sudden passing.

Perhaps, the tragic incident was just the beginning of a larger plan and her perfect man wasn’t so perfect.

The movie has received generally positive reviews from viewers with people saying the film was “surprisingly well written.” The movie is worth watching with tons of unexpected twists.

5. Outlaw Prophet Warren Jeffs (2014)

• Director: Gabriel Range
• Stars: Tony Goldwyn, Molly Parker, Joet King
• IMDb Rating: 5.7
• Runtime: 2h

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs, written by Steve Kornacki, Alyson Evans, and Bryce Kass, is inspired by true events.

It tells the story of the fundamentalist Mormon leader who spent over a year on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List following unlawful fling on charges related to his illegal marriages involving underage girls.

Based on New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular’s book, When Men Become Gods, the title showcases Jeff’s (Goldwyn) rise to power after the passing of his father, Rulon (Martin Landau).

Within days of his passing, he married all of his dad’s wives and had dictatorial control over his polygamist followers.

He ruled the sect women be completely subservient to men, reassigned wives to other men at whim, and banned laughing. He was later charged with arranging underage marriages but fled prosecution.

Following the film’s world premiere on June 28, 2014, Lifetime aired the hour-long documentary, Warren Jeffs: Beyond the Headlines, providing an in-depth look at the leader’s rise to power.

4. Family Pictures (2019)

• Director: Manu Boyer
• Stars: Justine Machoda, Elisabeth Rohm, Matt Passmore, Jackie Blackmore, Chris Cope
• IMDb Rating: 6.1
• Runtime: 1h 27m

Family Pictures, also known as The Husband with Two Wives, was released on June 29, 2019. It is written by Jane Green and Ilene Rosenzweig.

The film introduces Sylvie (Machoda) and Maggie (Rohm), two strangers living on opposite coats and leading very similar lives. Their husbands travel too much for work and their daughters are all grown up.

But when their kids meet and befriend each other on a college tour, the two families discover a shocking secret that intimidates them to tear their happy lives apart.

Sylvie and Maggie learn they both share the same husband, who has left them bankrupt.

James Pizzinato, Larissa Dias, Georgia Bradner, Jason Burkart, Kayla Deorksen, Daniel Diemer, Grayson Gurnsey, Courtney Richter, Allison Riley, Natalie Sharp, and Morgana Wyllie also appear in the movie.

People say the film is not so much about polygamy but the about the bonding of Mark’s two wives. “The two women are a study in contrasts. The women were a virtual yin and yang of polar opposites,” a fan said.

3. Escape From Polygamy (2013)

• Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg
• Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Mary McCormack, Sam Hennings
• IMDb Rating: 6.2
• Runtime: 1h 26m

Escape From Polygamy is a 2013 romantic drama written by Damon Tod Hill. It follows two teenagers trapped in the hold of an extreme polygamy sect.

A young man, Ryder (Jack Falahee), and a woman, Julina (Richardson), fall madly in love. But their romance is forbidden as it goes against their polygamous community’s law.

With no alternatives left, the two teenagers plan to run away from their community, tradition, and belief to have hope of being together.

Things get worse when Ryder’s dad declares God has chosen Juline to be his woman. The pair then try to escape their cult-like surrounding, polygamous community, and its leader (William Mapother).

Other notable actors in the film include Riki Lindhome, Kate Fuglei, Perry Mattfeld, Elle Labadie, William Mapother, and Chris Flanders.

Fans have quite appreciated the plots of the movie, with many sharing their views on social platforms. A Twitter user wrote, “So my new favorite movie is Escape from Polygamy! #lifetime #jackfalahee.”

2. In God’s Country (2007)

• Director: John L’Ecuyer
• Stars: Kelly Rowan, Richard Burgi, Martha Maclsaac
• IMDb Rating: 6.2
• Runtime: 1h 26m

In God’s Country, written by Peter Behrens and Esta Spalding, is a Canadian television film that dropped on CTV in January 2007.

The film is set in a creative polygamist community where people believe a man having multiple wives and as many kids as humanly possible ensure a gateway into heaven.

Following this, the older men with wealth and status often chose young girls to bore those kids. The film stars Rowan as Judith, a woman in a polygamous sect who stands against the repressive rule of the community.

She rebels to protect her teenage daughters from getting married to much older men against their will.

The cast also includes Martha Maclsaac, Richard Burgi, Hannah Lochner, Kristopher Turner, Catherine Disher, and Peter Outerbridge.

The film is a modern-day story of slavery. Teenagers protected by freedom of religion and ignored by the officials are trapped in such polygamous communities scattered throughout North America.

Even knowing she is weak compared to the powerful men, Judith declines to turn her back on her young kids. In God’s Country is the story of her remarkable journey and courage.

1. Escaping Polygamy (2014)

• Director: Jerome Jarnigan, Javier Gomez, Curt Wallin, Steve Brewer, Ira Speir
• Stars: Jessica Christensen, Andrea Brewer, Andrea Christensen, Shanell Christensen, Kollene Snow
• IMDb Rating: 7.2

Escaping Polygamy is a 2014 American documentary television series that premiered on December 30 on LMN.

The series now airs on Lifetime and can also be watched on Tubi. It follows three sisters who left a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah, called the Kingston Clan.

They help and assist family and friends break free of polygamy. The trio has also helped many people escape from the AUB Church and FLDS Church. The show originally aired on A&E and later moved to Lifetime.

On March 4, 2019, the series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on April 1, 2019. Since the airing of Season 4, the network has not announced any details concerning the future of the show.

Escaping Polygamy has received generally positive reviews from fans. People name it an eye-opening reality show. They love seeing people get out of polygamy and praise their bravery.