Pandora's Box (1929), King Lear (2018), A Raisin in the Sun (2008), The Country Girl (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), The Miracle Worker (1962), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Stalag 17 (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Play Adaptation movies.
Storyline: G.W. Pabst's account of a young woman's downfall emphasizes years of her catering to her sexual appetite.
Plot Keywords: silent film, psychological drama, moral decay, sexual liberation, tragedy, social criticism, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: King Lear divides his kingdom among his three daughters -- Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. The kingdom and family soon collapse into chaos and warfare as Lear goes mad and tragedy strikes.
Plot Keywords: tragedy, shakespeare, play adaptation, family conflict, power struggle, betrayal, madness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A widow (Phylicia Rashad), her son (Sean Combs) and other members of a black family have differing ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check.
Plot Keywords: family, race, dreams, poverty, discrimination, american dream, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a comeback.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, alcoholism, broadway, actor, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Plot Keywords: suspense, crime, thriller, film noir, murder, mystery, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, inspirational, educational, disability, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...—Greg Bruno <burlynerd@usa.net>
Plot Keywords: family, race, discrimination, dreams, american dream, poverty, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem - there seems to be a security leak. The Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For some in Barracks 4, especially the loud-mouthed Duke, the leaker is obvious: J.J. Sefton, a wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that no other prisoner seems to have. Sefton denies giving the Germans any information and makes it quite clear that he has no intention of ever trying to escape. He plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but it doesn't extend to spying for the Germans. As tensions mount and a mob mentality takes root, it becomes obvious that Sefton will have to find the real snitch if he is to have any peace and avoid the beatings Duke and ...
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, comedy, drama, mystery, black comedy, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.
Plot Keywords: comedy, black comedy, murder, family, madness, elderly, eccentric ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can marry her. Mr Wyke is not particularly perturbed by this, he and his wife have drifted apart, and he is having an affair with another woman anyway, but uses the meeting and Mr Tindle's request as a chance to play a game, a game with potentially deadly consequences.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, psychological, mystery, drama, classic, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher with an aristocratic background from Auriol, Mississippi, decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans after creditors take over the family property, Belle Reve. Blanche has also decided to take a break from teaching as she states the situation has frayed her nerves. Knowing nothing about Stanley or the Kowalskis' lives, Blanche is shocked to find that they live in a cramped and run down ground floor apartment - which she proceeds to beautify by putting shades over the open light bulbs to soften the lighting - and that Stanley is not the gentleman that she is used to in men. As such, Blanche and Stanley have an antagonistic relationship from the start. Blanche finds that Stanley's hyper-masculinity, which often displays itself in physical outbursts, is common, coarse and vulgar, being common which in turn is what attracted Stella to him. Beyond finding Blanche's delicate ...
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, family, conflict, desire, decadence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, drama, family, friendship, illusion, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage and subsequent divorce being equally passionate. They broke up when Dexter's drinking became excessive, it a mechanism to cope with Tracy's unforgiving manner to the imperfect, imperfections which Dexter admits he readily has. Two years after their break-up, Tracy is about to remarry, the ceremony to take place at the Lord mansion. Tracy's bridegroom is nouveau riche businessman and aspiring politician George Kittredge, who is otherwise a rather ordinary man and who idolizes Tracy. The day before the wedding, three unexpected guests show up at the Lord mansion: Macaulay Connor (Mike to his friends), Elizabeth Imbrie - the two who are friends of Tracy's absent brother, Junius- and Dexter himself. Dexter, an employee of the tabloid Spy magazine, made a deal with its publisher and editor Sidney Kidd to get a story on Tracy's wedding - the wedding of the year - in return for Kidd not ...
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, classic film, marriage, love triangle, high society, george cukor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson (Dame May Whitty) notices that her maid (Merle Tottenham) is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé is the reason, summons him in. When Danny (Robert Montgomery) arrives, he ingratiates himself with Mrs. Bramson, playing on her sympathies to earn himself a job as her assistant. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia (Rosalind Russell) takes a liking to Danny, however comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, psychological thriller, murder, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Welles' adaptation of "Falstaff" and other Shakespearean works, chronicling the nobleman's relationship with Henry V.
Plot Keywords: shakespeare, play adaptation, historical drama, black and white, british literature, power struggle, betrayal ...
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