In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

Home Fries

1998

English

5.1

♡ 10

29%

Dean Parisot Director

Jake Busey as Angus Montier

Chris Ellis as Henry Lever

Daryl Mitchell as Roy

Drew Barrymore as Sally Jackson

Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.

Nathicharami

2018

Kannada

7.2

♡ 5

Drama

extramarital affair

husband wife estrangement

sexual healing

widow

Mansore Director

Harshil Koushik as

Greeshma Sridhar as

Shaanthala as

Sruthi Hariharan as Gowri

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.

The Ballad of Josie

1967

English

5.7

♡ 5

55%

Action

barn

barn burning

character name in title

Comedy

pool cue

ranchers vs sheepherders

Western

widow

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Audrey Christie as Annabelle Pettijohn

Don Stroud as Bratsch

Doris Day as Josie Minick

George DeNormand as Territorial Delegate

A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.

The Libertine

1968

Italian

5.4

♡ 8

Pasquale Festa Campanile Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Dr. Carlo De Marchi

Vittorio Caprioli as Il libraio

Catherine Spaak as Margherita aka Mimi

Paolo Stoppa as Professor Zauri

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

Keeper of the Flame

1942

English

6.7

♡ 4

67%

foreign correspondent

Mystery

widow

George Cukor Director

Forrest Tucker as Geoffrey Midford

Audrey Christie as Jane Harding

Darryl Hickman as Jeb Rickards

John Roy as Police Officer at Funeral

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Late Chrysanthemums

1954

Japanese

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Mikio Naruse Director

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as

Tsuruko Mano as

Sadako Sawamura as Nobu

Chikako Hosokawa as Tamae

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

The Second Time Around

1961

English

6.5

♡ 4

62%

Vincent Sherman Director

Thelma Ritter as Aggie Gates

Timothy Carey as Bonner

Tom Fadden as Feed Store Owner

Harry Carter as Storekeeper

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.

Promises to Keep

4.7

Marc Leif Director

Warren Bryson as Aaron Goodman

Christine Jones as Evelyn Goodman

Arizona Craycraft as Lisa Michaels

Chuck Gillespie as Thomas Goodman

Jonathan and Evelyn were lovers 30 years ago but have been estranged ever since because Evelyn left the church to marry one of Jonathan's divorced friends and Jonathan has been trying to get her to return to her Catholic faith ever since. Now widowed, they're forced to face their past when their children fall in love.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

English

7.8

♡ 8

100%

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Rex Harrison as Capt. Daniel Gregg

Stuart Holmes as Man Ordered Out of Train Compartment by Captain

Robert Coote as Mr. Coombe

Anna Lee as Mrs. Miles Fairley

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

The Woman in the Fifth

2011

French

5.3

♡ 4

59%

Pawel Pawlikowski Director

Doug Rand as American Writer 1

Kristin Scott Thomas as Margit

Anne Benoît as Teacher

Ethan Hawke as Tom Ricks

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Secret Lives

2005

English

4.8

♡ 1

George Mendeluk Director

Daphne Zuniga as Jill Thompson

Mackenzie Gray as Mark

Duncan Regehr as Mike

Lisa Ryder as Shelby

An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murdered. So she starts to research her husband's secret life in search of the reason he disappeared and who might have killed him.

404 Error

1961

English

♡ 4

Action

actor playing multiple roles

Pierre Tchernia Director

Jacques Balutin as Balutin

Jean-Marc Thibault as L'effeminé / Effeminate Young Man

Robert Seller as Le majordome de Mme Lucanzas

Jean Carmet as Le malandrin / The Burglar

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A Home of Our Own

1993

English

7.1

♡ 8

50%

Tony Bill Director

Tony Bill as Doctor

Kathy Bates as Frances Lacey

Frank Gerrish as Mr. Whitman

Edward Furlong as Shayne Lacey

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.

The Christmas Ornament

2013

English

6.8

♡ 5

52%

Mark Jean Director

Gwynyth Walsh as Eve Atkinson

Kellie Martin as Kathy Howard

Laura Mennell as Rebecca

Cameron Mathison as Tim Pierce

Newly widowed Kathy plans to skip out on decking the halls and trimming the tree this Christmas, trying to avoid anything that will bring back memories of her late husband. When Kathy meets handsome Christmas tree shop owner Tim, their undeniable chemistry—along with an ornament Tim gives her that symbolizes hope—helps Kathy open up to the joys of the season again.

Betrayed

1988

English

♡ 15

36%

Costa-Gavras Director

Robert Minkoff as Bit

Stephen E. Miller as Buster

Robert Swan as Dean

Richard Libertini as Sam Kraus

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Deadly Blessing

1981

English

5.5

♡ 16

50%

Wes Craven Director

Jeff East as John Schmidt

Sharon Stone as Lana Marcus

Lois Nettleton as Louisa Stohler

Michael Berryman as William Gluntz

When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.

Scorned

1993

English

5.2

♡ 25

Andrew Stevens Director

Wil Shriner as Detective

Paul Carr as Kramer

Kim Morgan Greene as Marina Weston

Shannon Tweed as Patricia Langley / Amanda Chessfield

A vengeful widow worms her way into the home of the man she holds responsible for her husband's suicide.

Autumn Tale

1998

French

7.4

♡ 10

95%

Éric Rohmer Director

Didier Sandre as Étienne

Alain Libolt as Gérald

Marie Rivière as Isabelle

Béatrice Romand as Magali

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.