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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

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...

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

A recent widow travels with her son to her Virginia hometown for Christmas. On the way they meet a m...

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...

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

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

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