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

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

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

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

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...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

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

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...

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

Jagannathan, a political advisor, is hired to help John, a politician in California. He employs vari...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

After forcefully being called to their grandfather's funeral by their abusive mother, our protagonis...

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...

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

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

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