Keyword: literary adaptation

Wishbone

8.2

1995

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An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.

Salem's Lot

6.7

2023

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A writer travels to a town where the people become vampires.

Anna Karenina

7.1

1935

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The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husbands refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

Timon of Athens

7.3

1981

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Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his \friends\ refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

For Love Alone

3

1986

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Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.

Phantom of the Opera

6.5

1943

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An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudys career.

The Atrocity Exhibition

5.7

2000

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A scientist obsessed with World War III hits the road with a woman so he can re-create scenes from history.

Oliver Twist

4.9

1933

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An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Sanctuary

6.2

1961

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William Faulkners steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governers daughter is seduced and raped by a Cajun who returns after shes married to cause her further trouble.

Ordeal by Innocence

5

1984

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Dr Calgary returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the mans address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mothers murder.

The Four 2

5.8

2013

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Four detectives, each with supernatural powers, dedicate their unique and special skills to solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals.

Seize the Day

6.2

1986

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Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) 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 York to pick up the pieces of his life. Hes always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.

Daisy Miller

6.1

1974

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In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.