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.
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his...
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentle...
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they ...
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...
A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biogra...
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardro...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
In a small village in Toledo during the 00's, Elena, a widowed housewife, tries to get closer to her...
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his...
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John ...
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What ...
A widow falls for a younger man she meets at the Cowboy Church.
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, ...
Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...
A young brahmin boy studying in a village away from home and a young widow isolated by her condition...