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.

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

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

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

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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

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

Before the death of her husband, Susie froze an embryo. Surrogate Lorna agrees to carry the child to...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

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

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

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