Movies: Widow

Yuka Shibuya, a struggling actress, and Hatsue, a widowed chestnut farmer, meet a mysterious, bloodied man in the farm. The three end up living together during chestnut season and form a special bond while a miracle slowly unfolds....

Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa. Solveig now contemplates if she should include Sibusiso in her will. Under the pretence of a h...

A widow takes a trip to scatter her husband's ashes where he spent his childhood summers: his family’s idyllic lake house. When she unexpectedly shares one last night with her dead husband, she learns far more about his troubled childhood than she ba...

A widow struggles with the dilemma of her own growing sexual needs, and her desire to remain faithful to the memory of her late husband....

A novelist has to choose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic....

A young woman visits a spiritualist medium in order to contact her dead husband for one final goodbye....

Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirta...

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watchin...

Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned the job of redesigning the cells of a new prison, but even when her enthusiasm returns a little with ...

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Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married....

Snakes dwell in the grass of East Texas, where a widow forms an unhealthy obsession with someone who seems to be the living embodiment of the Marlboro Man....

Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house near the cliffs, with her only son Antoine, and her dog. During the day, she assists women giving birth in town. One night her son is killed in a clas...

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“Never, ever, publish them!” What was it Jackie Kennedy wanted to keep secret? Acclaimed director Patrick Jeudy has access to a series of conversations recorded a few months after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Lady...

In 1897, a young widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a primitive sentient machine....

After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks withou...

Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's ...

A single mother fights against the supernatural in order to hold on to her daughter....

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family....