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.

Kyoko Otonashi is a 22-year-old widow. Six months have passed since the sudden death of her husband,...

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is kil...

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...

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

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

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

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

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two chil...

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...

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

A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a for...

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

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...