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.
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi...
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardro...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...
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...
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...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husba...
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 ...