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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...

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.

Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough,...

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

In the aftermath of her husband's death, widow Ramona's struggle to raise her two kids is hindered b...

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daugh...

Set in ancient China, an aimless young man falls in love with the Emperor's beautiful daughter, and ...

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...