Heat (1995), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Children's Hour (1961), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Ghajini (2008), The Sun Shines Bright (1954), Frankenweenie (2012), A Song Is Born (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Remake By Original Director movies.
Storyline: Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: dog, drunkenness, england, englishman abroad, fox hunt, gunfire, gunshot wound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barney teaches chemisty, and is planning to abduct a woman. Despite methodical planning and countless trial runs he always manages to mess things up. Then Diane, who is traveling with her boyfriend Jeff, unwittingly makes herself an easy target. The story is mainly from Jeff's viewpoint, as he searches for Diane. Barney watches him.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, psychopath, remake, remake by original director, buried alive, missing person, obsession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The architect Vincent Stevens; the psychiatrist Chris Vanowen; the real estate agents Luke Seacord and Marty Landry; and Chris' half-brother Philip Trauner are married and best friends. Vincent has designed a brand new building and proposes that he and his friends share one of the wonderful penthouse lofts. This would allow them to hook up with other women without worrying about hotel charges showing up on their credit cards. When they discover the body of a beautiful woman cuffed on the bed in the loft, they argue over whom is responsible and secrets are disclosed affecting their friendship.
Plot Keywords: adultery, remake, murder, prostitute, infidelity, handcuffed to a bed, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A law student takes a job as the night-watchman in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and the student ends up getting mixed up with one of the murders, becoming a suspect.
Plot Keywords: morgue, male frontal nudity, corpse, friend, murder suspect, dead prostitute, haunted by the past ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Quiet family man and hard-working snowplow driver Nels is the lifeblood of a glitzy resort town in the Rocky Mountains because he is the one who keeps the winter roads clear. He and his wife live in a comfortable cabin away from the tourists. The town has just awarded him "Citizen of the Year." But Nels has to leave his quiet mountain life when his son is murdered by a powerful drug lord. As a man who has nothing to lose he is stoked by a drive for vengeance. This unlikely hero uses his hunting skills and transforms from an ordinary man into a skilled killer as he sets out to dismantle the cartel. Nels' actions ignite a turf war between a manically unpredictable gangster known as Viking and a rival gang boss. Justice is served in one final spectacular confrontation that will leave (almost) no one unscathed.
Plot Keywords: revenge, black comedy, remake, assassin, gay kiss, drug lord, drug cartel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Plot Keywords: oral sex, mini skirt, tokyo japan, laboratory, remote control, umbrella, power drill ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Karen Davis, an American Nurse, moves to Tokyo and encounters a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find a way to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim.
Plot Keywords: elderly, male frontal nudity, housewife, pet cat, bus, suicide, video surveillance ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage, they make use of the services of a wizard. Something goes wrong and they're transported from the 12th century to the year 2000, where they meets some of the knight's family, and slowly learns what the future's like. In order to return to the 12th century and deal with the witch, they begin to look for a wizard.
Plot Keywords: alternate history, altering history, wilhelm scream, remake of french film, remake by original director, time travel, sword fight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
Plot Keywords: frog, remake by original director, nightmare, based on short film, horror movie remake, remake, extreme violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe is a professional hit man who picks someone off the street to do his errands, and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok, and as usual, he finds a street-wise guy named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who Joe is, Kong asks him to train him and he does. Joe also meets a local girl who is deaf and spends time with her. However, Joe has a hard time keeping his other life from her. It also appears that the person who hired Joe, breaks his rule of complete anonymity and tries to find him.
Plot Keywords: deaf, main character dies, nightclub, hitman, pickpocket, murder, pharmacist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A high school student named Jake tries to make his girlfriend Emily watch a cursed tape. But then Jake finds out that Emily covered her eyes and didn't watch the tape, and then Jake is killed by Samara Morgan (from the first The Ring movie). Rachel Keller learns of Jake's death and finds his twisted body in the back of an ambulance. Rachel then realizes she once again has to save her son Aidan from Samara the evil ghost child.
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, real estate agent, evil child, water, animal attack, dead animal, good versus evil ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Pasadena, Mrs. Davis sends her daughter Aubrey Davis to Tokyo to bring her sister Karen Davis, who is interned in a hospital after surviving a fire, back to the USA. After their meeting, Karen dies and Aubrey decides to investigate what happened to her and gets herself trapped in the same situation, being chased by the ghost of the house. Meanwhile in Tokyo, the three high school mates Allison, Vanessa and Miyuki visit the famous haunted house and are also chased by the ghost. In Chicago, Trish moves to the apartment of her boyfriend Bill, who lives with his children, the teenager Lacey and boy Jake. On the next door, weird things happen with their neighbor.
Plot Keywords: ghost, schoolgirl, haunted house, cat, urinating in fear, defenestration, drowning ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, LOL is a fresh coming-of-age story for modern times.
Plot Keywords: entire title is capitalized acronym, young love, love, rock singer, singer, e mail, concert ...
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