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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two chil...

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

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Ger...

Jake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales...
Set in a small provincial town in western Denmark, 'Somewhere Out There' follows longtime friends La...