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...

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...

Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kat...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

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...

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which...

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

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to ...

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 ...