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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

One year after Stine's husband died, she reclusive lives with her daughter Stephanie in a suburban v...

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