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...

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...

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...

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...

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

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

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 ...

In the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic ba...

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

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is kil...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

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

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she ...

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