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.

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

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

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

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When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

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

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to lif...

Anne Byrne, recently widowed, lives with her useless adult son. She’s left juggling housework and th...

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets o...

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongo...

A wife tries to deal with the recent death of husband and her rebellious daughter who is at constant...
Since the death of her husband, a yellow cheetah has been the companion of the attractive Miriam. Wh...

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come togeth...

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

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 his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...

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