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

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

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

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...

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...

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

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...

A wife tries to deal with the recent death of husband and her rebellious daughter who is at constant...

Anne Byrne, recently widowed, lives with her useless adult son. She’s left juggling housework and th...

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial stra...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

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 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets o...

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

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

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriag...