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.

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

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

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

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...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

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

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

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to ...

Widow makes son pose as boy to appear younger to professor, but he is to wed professor's daughter.

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close siblin...

A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time...

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster...