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 grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade schoo...
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her ...
Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder ...
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
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...
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster...
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death....
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...