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.

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

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...

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...

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial stra...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

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

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...

Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widow...

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster...

Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough,...

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...