Molière

The School For Wives, at its core, is about gender power dynamics. We are looking forward to telling this classic 17th century French tale through the lens of a contemporary aesthetic and an all female, primarly non-white cast to further bring into focus the inherent power of justice and equality over racism and sexism. Furthermore, by casting a Black woman in the central role of ARNOLPHE - a white man of power and privilege, who is forced to realize that he cannot control or snuff out ANYONE's humanity - we are shining a light on the ultimate absurdity of similar American systems of oppression.

Argan inventa enfermedades todo el tiempo y sigue preguntando por su médico. Para recibir atención en el hogar, quiere casar a Thomas Diafoirus, un médico, con su hija Angelique. Pero este último está enamorado de cléante.

Alceste loves Célimène, a flirtatious woman from the Parisian high society. He loathes this world for its hypocritical etiquette but, shaken by a public trial he is called to by this social circle, he must visit Célimène to ask for her help…

Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.

Filmed stage production of Molière's comedic play The Miser about the dangers of greed.

This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest of the world—wish it had been, and it’s the ideal setting for an adult comedy of love and errors. Susan Graham is the aristocratic young Octavian, torn between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts.

Theater play "Le misanthrope" played by the "Comédie française" in 2000.

Europa, principios del siglo XVII. Tras abandonar a su prometida doña Elvira, Don Juan huye de la ciudad ante las amenazas de muerte de los dos hermanos de su novia. Durante el viaje por mar, Don Juan y su criado Snagarelle, son víctimas de un naufragio.

Tartuffe is a cheeky cheater and traitor who succeeds in fooling and terrorizing Orgon and his family.

Taped live at the Princess Grace Theater in Monte Carlo, a dope rendition of the play about a bourgeois obsessed with infidelity who grooms his future wife from an early age so that she ignores the things of life and therefore temptations.

Mientras se extinguen los últimos vestigios del Imperio y el rey Felipe II (1559-1598) agoniza a la sombra del esplendor perdido, un hombre, desafiando los designios divinos y la justicia humana, convierte sus pasiones en destino y su voluntad en ley. Su fama es tan grande como su orgullo. Su condena, eterna. Su nombre, una leyenda: Don Juan. Libre adaptación del "Don Juan" de Moliére.

Don Arpagone es un avaro que recurre a toda clase de argucias para evitar que nadie se lleve su dinero, incluido el Vaticano, que, por medio del cardenal Spinose, intenta apoderarse de su fortuna. La hija del avaro está enamorada del secretario de su padre, y el hijo lo está de la hija de Doña Lucrecia, una mujer arruinada tras la muerte de su marido. Pero pronto se descubrirá que el marido de ésta vive y que el secretario de Arpagone es, en realidad, el hijo de un rico caballero. El avaro se entrevista con el Papa y denuncia al Cardenal, que es desterrado por el Papa.

Don Arpagone es un avaro que recurre a toda clase de argucias para evitar que nadie se lleve su dinero, incluido el Vaticano, que, por medio del cardenal Spinose, intenta apoderarse de su fortuna. La hija del avaro está enamorada del secretario de su padre, y el hijo lo está de la hija de Doña Lucrecia, una mujer arruinada tras la muerte de su marido. Pero pronto se descubrirá que el marido de ésta vive y que el secretario de Arpagone es, en realidad, el hijo de un rico caballero. El avaro se entrevista con el Papa y denuncia al Cardenal, que es desterrado por el Papa.

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tries a strategy to avert the marriage; then Orgon's son tries his hand. They anger Orgon, and to prove paternal power, he disinherits his son and makes Tartuffe his heir. Next Orgon's wife tries to bring her husband insight, a stratagem that partially backfires. With the bailiff at the door ordering Orgon to vacate his own home and with Tartuffe at court to prove Orgon's a traitor, all seems lost.

The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.

In this adaptation of the play by Molière, Monsieur Jourdain, social climber, nouveau rich but naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. He hires masters of music, dance, philosophy. He has gone mad with thoughts of honors, decorations, and power.

Harpagon, avaro e irascible, es víctima de su amor desmesurado por su cofrecito de luises de oro. Para conservarlo sólo para él, debe aceptar que su hijo se case con una mujer sin dinero y su hija con su mayordomo.

La historia transcurre en la casa del señor Argante quien en su afán de tener compañía se ha convertido en un hipocondríaco quien en todo momento cree tener algún tipo de enfermedad con la intención de reclamar cuidados de parte de su esposa, sus hijas y por supuesto, de su criada Tonina, pero cuando la terquedad del hombre es tal que decide casar a su hija Angélica con un médico sin importar el verdadero amor de la joven.

El Enfermo Imaginario gira alrededor de la figura de un hipocondríaco que teme la intervención de los médicos, gremio cuya sátira estaba muy de moda en la época. La comedia remarca, en clave satírica, la crueldad de los médicos, que atormentan al enfermo.

The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills.

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both his new friend's wife and daughter in this TV presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. Tartuffe pretends to be a pious man whose faith convinces Orgon and his family to succumb to his influence, but he's undone when his womanizing ways make it clear that his piety is a charade.

Alceste hates all of humanity, denounces its hypocrisy, cowardice and compromise. But he nevertheless loves Célimène, flirtatious and slanderous. The virtuous thus launches into battles lost in advance which force him to flee.

Bergman took one of his favourite plays to Copenhagen for a guest performance, which was even broadcast on Danish TV. In his Copenhagen The Misanthrope, Bergman maintained a dual approach. On the one hand, a production of Molière's play as a theatrical game performed in style and intellectually conceived; on the other hand, an exposure, through physical and psychological intensity, of the emotional tragedy in which Alceste and Celemine are both victims. Expectations were high prior to Bergman's production of The Misanthrope. A reviewer wrote, 'For the first time Molière's connection to the Danish stage is intercepted by a director whose forte is physiological tragedy, Strindberg over Holberg'. Many reviews had expected Bergman to put his very personal stamp on the production. Instead they experienced 'a clean Molière' and were struck by Bergman's faithfulness to the original mise-en-scene and to the classical rhythm of Molière's text.

A man makes clumsy attempts to marry his naive young ward.

Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.

A filmed version of Molière's play.

El avaro es una comedia en prosa de Molière en 5 actos. Se estrenó en el teatro del Palais-Royal, el 9 de septiembre de 1668. El tema está claramente inspirado en La olla de Plauto, cuyo protagonista ha cambiado su antiguo nombre de Cornelio por Tulio. El tema central es "la avaricia extrema encarnada en el personaje de Harpagón."

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit the way of conceiving his existence.

This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.

Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.

An adaptation of Molière's play.

György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turned poor: he can marry their daughter in return of a regular financial contribution. Angyalka escapes the undesired husband at their very first night, and furthermore she establishes a secret romantic relationship with Count Klitander who suits her a lot better.

Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.

Short romantic comedy directed by Douglas Sirk.

Como su padre se opone a que se case con Leandro, para conmoverlo, Paula finge haber perdido el habla.

Fábula moral basada en la famosa comedia de Moliere sobre la hipocresía de un hombre que quiere adueñarse de una gran fortuna.

The story of a young girl forced to marry an old Aga. Directed by Fuat Uzkinay and Sigmund Weinberg, it was the third film in Turkish history and had to be postponed until the end of WWI in 1918.