Literary Adaptation Movies

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his...

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child....

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice...

Trilby parody with several key characters' names altered. Presumed lost.

Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's...

The most beautiful man in the world, who, sick of being objectified, devises a plan to free himself of other's attention.

Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a female ghost at night, but emphasised neither the...

Orphan Heath is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cate. The two share a...

Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye....

Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also...

Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New...

Inspector Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to...

Tom Sawyer and his best buddy Huck Finn love going fishing, daydreaming about pirates and stolen gold, and thinking about Becky Thatcher - the pretty...

During his final days at Buenos Aires’ Hospital de Clínicas, writer Horacio Quiroga confronts his terminal illness as memories, visions,...

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

As the main caretaker of her alcoholic father, a young woman experiences doubts as she prepares to leave her stagnant life behind for a boyfriend she...

Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to...