Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well ...

Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get mar...

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in th...

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to ...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
With her husband's funeral to plan and grieving to be done, a woman reaches out to her estranged son...

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...