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.

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongo...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps t...

An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing test...

Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is abou...

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

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

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

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, ...

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.

Set in ancient China, an aimless young man falls in love with the Emperor's beautiful daughter, and ...

A widower yearning seclusion, an opportunity to get away is still disturbed by his deceased wife.

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and ero...

Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of...

A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman lea...

Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance b...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...