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.

The Long Walk

7.5

2025

Movie

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A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as \The Long Walk,\ in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

Salem's Lot

7

2023

Movie

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

Hot Milk

5.6

2025

Movie

HD

With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.

Anna Karenina

7.1

1935

Movie

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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

Movie

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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.

Phantom of the Opera

6.5

1943

Movie

HD

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

For Love Alone

3

1986

Movie

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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.

Oliver Twist

4.9

1933

Movie

HD

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

Movie

HD

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.

The Four 2

5.8

2013

Movie

HD

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

The Atrocity Exhibition

5.7

2000

Movie

HD

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

Ordeal by Innocence

5

1984

Movie

HD

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.