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.

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies...

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who live...

A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.

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 ...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc El...

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and...

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit...

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable ca...

A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her ...

In the aftermath of her husband's death, widow Ramona's struggle to raise her two kids is hindered b...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...

A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.

Lana's daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she's getting married. In Thailand. ...

A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her stra...

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has...

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