Trifling Women is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rex Ingram.

Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.

[3] The movie director, Michael Powell, described the film as: "Moonlight on tiger skins and blood dripping onto white faces, while sinister apes, poison and lust kept the plot rolling.

[1]: 33 Trifling Women starred Barbara La Marr and Ramón Novarro, who were reteamed from The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), a highly successful film which was recently released.

[6] Trifling Women premiered at the Astor Theatre in New York City on October 2, 1922 and had its general release on November 6.

On the other hand, the reviewer for Variety felt it was a let-down compared to The Prisoner of Zenda, and the New York Times called it "an impossible rigmarole".

[6] Critic Carlos Clarens wrote of the film that it "contained enough poisoning, Satanism, and necrophilia to make it one of the commercial disasters of 1922.