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.

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...

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she ...

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, find that their chances at marriage s...

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a...

The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis ...