Zama (2017), The Blue Angel (1930), The Innocents (1961), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), The Little Prince (2015), The Man on the Train (2002), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Black Robe (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Literary Adaptation movies.
Storyline: A stormy reunion occurs between an actress and her daughter after the actress publishes her memoirs.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, french film, mother-daughter relationship, lies, memories, reconciliation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Affairs strewn from Paris to the Alps disintegrate a couple's (Gérard Philipe, Jeanne Moreau) marriage.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, french, literary adaptation, aristocracy, intrigue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
Plot Keywords: french film, drama, black and white, 1960s, social marginalization, poverty, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Claire is a tightly wound midwife who forms an unlikely friendship with Béatrice, her late father's free-spirited mistress. Though polar opposites, the two women come to rely on each other after Béatrice reveals that she has brain cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, female lead, midlife crisis, family relationships, reconciliation, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An 1880s Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) is summoned to England by his grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) and raised as a lord.
Plot Keywords: children, family, drama, classic, british, literary adaptation, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Hemingwayesque artist (George C. Scott) plays and drinks in the 1940s Bahamas, visited by his first wife (Claire Bloom) and three sons.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, war, family, father-son relationship, literary adaptation, artist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small-town sheriff (Nick Nolte) becomes unhinged, thanks in part to his abusive, alcoholic father (James Coburn).
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, mystery, family, psychological, violence, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On patrol in the Caucasus mountains, Russian soldiers Vanya (Sergei Bodrov Jr.) and Sacha (Oleg Menshikov) become the prisoners of a Chechen village. Tribal leader Abdul-Murat (Jemal Sikharulidze) is willing to release the pair unharmed in exchange for his son, who is a prisoner in the custody of the Russians. After writing to their mothers with Abdul-Murat's terms, the duo are powerless to do anything but wait for an answer while getting used to life in the village.
Plot Keywords: war, russia, hostage, friendship, conflict, soldier, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The youngest daughter (Lumi Cavazos) of a Mexican family expresses her feelings in preparing wonderful food, when tradition keeps her from marrying her true love (Marco Leonardi).
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, family, mexico, cuisine, passion, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This French film chronicles a decades-long love triangle between Claude (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an art critic, and sisters Ann (Kika Markham) and Muriel (Stacey Tendeter). Claude initially intends to marry Muriel, but after a lengthy separation, he decides to call off the wedding. Ann then visits Claude in Paris to champion her heartbroken sister. Instead, Ann falls for Claude. Over the intervening years, Claude's preference shifts as the three remain embroiled in a complicated relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, french film, literary adaptation, love triangle, romanticism, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A controversial Parisian writer blurs the line between fact and fiction when he starts to use real-life love affairs as fodder for his explosive new novel.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, french film, contemporary, intellectual, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini collaborated on this trio of tales based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Plot Keywords: horror, fantasy, anthology, french, italian, surreal, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this true story of a 19th-century nun who achieved sainthood, Thérèse Martin (Catherine Mouchet) hopes to follow in the footsteps of her two older sisters, who became members of the Carmelite order of nuns. Although the church resists initially because of her age, Thérèse stubbornly continues her quest to serve God, and even lobbies Pope Leo XIII (Armand Meppiel). Her wish is granted at age 15, when she joins the order and performs extraordinary works in a life abbreviated by illness.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, french, literary adaptation, female protagonist, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, tv movie, classic, british, laurence olivier, nostalgic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 16th-century France, Marie de Mezières marries for her father's political gain, and when war breaks out, she becomes exposed to sexual and political intrigues of court.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, romance, war, french, period, literary adaptation ...
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