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...

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

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

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 ...

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...

Before the death of her husband, Susie froze an embryo. Surrogate Lorna agrees to carry the child to...

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 ...

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...

Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kat...

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

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

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

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

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.