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...

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

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

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...

A recent widow travels with her son to her Virginia hometown for Christmas. On the way they meet a m...

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

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongin...
With her husband's funeral to plan and grieving to be done, a woman reaches out to her estranged son...

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

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in th...

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...