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.
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway...
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial stra...
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 ...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
A woman that during the daytime is an insignificant librarian, at night becomes a fascinating myster...
A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as ...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accu...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...