Filmed Theatre, TV Plays, Films Based on Well-Known Books
by Jasikedevicius | created - 23 Jan 2022 | updated - 3 days ago | Public...or based on short stories or plays. Some films or docs about literary themes are included too. Nobel prize winners books are not included.
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1. Wuthering Heights (1954)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A partial retelling of Wuthering Heights in 19th century Mexico.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Votes: 1,377
2. Daughter of Deceit (1951)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife María, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 751
3. A Woman Without Love (1952)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Rosario Granados, Julio Villarreal, Tito Junco, Joaquín Cordero
Votes: 887
4. Trilogy (1969)
G | 110 min | Drama, Romance
"Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. She is shocked one day to learn that one of her "babies" is expecting... See full summary »
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Geraldine Page, Donnie Melvin, Lavinia Cassels, Christine Marler
Votes: 183
5. The Glass House (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A young guard and a college professor convicted of manslaughter both start their first day in prison.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Clu Gulager, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 933
6. The Captive (2000)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 1,959
7. Swann in Love (1984)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 2,175
8. Almayer's Folly (2011)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
The tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andianas
Votes: 823
9. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,457
10. This Filthy Earth (2001)
111 min | Drama
The tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition, events unfurl which threaten their sibling bond.
Director: Andrew Kotting | Stars: Rebecca Palmer, Shane Attwooll, Demelza Randall, Xavier Tchili
Votes: 201
11. Women in Love (1969)
R | 131 min | Drama, Romance
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Votes: 8,560 | Gross: $1.03M
12. The Rainbow (1989)
R | 113 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe, Paul McGann, Christopher Gable
Votes: 1,695 | Gross: $0.44M
13. Lowlands (1954)
99 min | Drama, Romance, Musical
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe, where a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between 2 men; a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Bernhard Minetti, Leni Riefenstahl, Aribert Wäscher, Karl Skraup
Votes: 470
14. The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Votes: 3,148
15. Invasion (1969)
123 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of men led by an old man trying to stop an invasion of the city of Aquileia. The invaders are introducing a machinery for a mass invasion, but the invasion is absolute and impossible to define.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián
Votes: 968
16. Les autres (1974)
127 min | Drama
Spinoza tries to discover the causes why his son committed suicide. Find a writing that had left his son and also his girlfriend and who was rival to his son in his affections. Spinoza ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: Maurice Born, Noëlle Châtelet, Patrice Dally, Pierrette Destanque
Votes: 70
17. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,033
18. The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV Movie)
105 min | Sci-Fi
In a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.
Directors: Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton | Stars: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Kevin Conway
Votes: 2,810
19. Tales from Earthsea (2006)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
Director: Gorô Miyazaki | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay, Jun'ichi Okada
Votes: 44,230 | Gross: $0.05M
20. James Joyce's Women (1985)
R | 88 min | Drama
In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pearce | Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, Chris O'Neill, James E. O'Grady, Tony Lyons
Votes: 178 | Gross: $0.38M
21. Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966)
92 min | Drama
A pub keeper in Dublin has a vision of his own death.
Director: Mary Ellen Bute | Stars: Page Johnson, Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell
Votes: 108
22. Pedro Páramo (1967)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Highly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes as its basis a son's search for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s. Stereotypical (or archetypal)... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Velo | Stars: John Gavin, Ignacio López Tarso, Pilar Pellicer, Julissa
Votes: 369
23. Pedro Páramo (1977)
180 min | Drama
Remake of the 1967 literary adaptation, in which a wayfarer travels to a mysterious arid village to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife.
Director: José Bolaños | Stars: Manuel Ojeda, Venetia Vianello, Bruno Rey, Narciso Busquets
Votes: 77
24. The Crucible (1957)
145 min | Drama, History
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.
Director: Raymond Rouleau | Stars: Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt, Alfred Adam
Votes: 789
25. The Crucible (1996)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen
Votes: 40,194 | Gross: $7.34M
26. Death of a Salesman (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Drama
An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang
Votes: 11,709
27. The Misfits (1961)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 23,430 | Gross: $8.94M
28.
Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Episode:
La muerte de un viajante
(1972)
139 min | Drama
Director: Pedro Amalio López | Stars: José María Rodero, Berta Riaza, Juan Diego, José María Caffarel
29.
Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Episode:
Todos eran mis hijos
(1967)
Drama
Stars: José Bódalo, Álvaro de Luna, Fernando Guillén, María Luisa Merlo
30. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,837
31. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,748 | Gross: $0.38M
32. Z (1969)
M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer
Votes: 31,359 | Gross: $0.08M
33. Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
110 min | Drama
Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini
Votes: 643
34. Untouched (1954)
85 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Scientist sent by pharmaceutical company to Veracruz to study barbasco roots for cortisone production gets lost in jungle, ends up in remote village called Paradise, experiences a romantic adventure.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Ariadne Welter, Víctor Parra, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 80
35. Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre (1986)
Director: Luis Figueroa | Stars: Jorge Acuña, Pedro García, Carlos Loayza
Votes: 9
37.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
An Ideal Husband
(1969)
82 min | Drama
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett, Dinah Sheridan
Votes: 183
38.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
Lady Windermere's Fan
(1985)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Smith | Stars: Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 152
39.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
The Importance of Being Earnest
(1988)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff (Rupert Frazer) and Jack Worthing (Paul McGann) discover that they have been "Bunberrying", that is, assuming different identities in order to enjoy themselves in ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: John Woodnutt, Rupert Frazer, Paul McGann, Joan Plowright
Votes: 281
40. Aeschylus' Oresteia (Tony Harrison Adaptation), the National Theatre (1983)
232 min | Drama
The murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Sean Baker, David Bamber, Nigel Bellairs, Mark Bond
Votes: 31
41. Antigone (I) (1958 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Ennio Balbo, Elena Cotta, Antonio Crast, Dario Dolci
Votes: 10
42. Antigone (1972 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully ... See full summary »
Director: Stellio Lorenzi | Stars: Jean Topart, Alain Cuny, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Robert Darmel
Votes: 19
43. Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992)
100 min | Drama
A teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Astrid Ofner, Ursula Ofner, Hans Diehl, Kurt Radeke
Votes: 455
44. Antigone (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Antigone defies her uncle's decree that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife; however, her actions have tragic consequences.
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Maro Kodou, Nikos Kazis
Votes: 897
45. The Trojan Women (1971)
GP | 105 min | Drama
The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $0.11M
46. Separate Tables (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
The arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles; secrets, infatuations, and lies emerge.
Directors: John Schlesinger, Ken Price | Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth
Votes: 220
47. Hedda (1975)
PG | 102 min | Drama
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale, a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a ... See full summary »
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 365
48.
Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Episode:
Un enemigo del pueblo
(1981)
Drama
Director: Francisco Abad | Stars: José Bódalo, Irene Gutiérrez Caba, Alberto Fernández, Francisco Merino
Votes: 12
49. Spöksonaten (2007 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
Ingmar Bergman's staging at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. The Student can see things few others can, but he does not know the people who are not seen by others. Director Hummel who... See full summary »
Stars: Jan Malmsjö, Jonas Malmsjö, Elin Klinga, Gunnel Lindblom
Votes: 80
50. A Doll's House (II) (1973)
G | 106 min | Drama
Nora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 806
51. Ett drömspel (1963 TV Movie)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy
The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall, Olof Widgren
Votes: 276
52. Fritänkaren (1994 Video)
Not Rated | 276 min | Biography, Drama
A 274-minute documentary portrait of the life of playwright August Strindberg. The topic of the movie is inextricable from its method of production: for two years, beginning in 1992, Watkins created the film in a communal collaboration.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Anders Mattsson, Lena Settervall, Roland Borgström, Ingela Berger
Votes: 107
53. Karin Månsdotter (1954)
108 min | Drama, History
The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karin's rise and fall. The rest is normal B&W movie. Karin does not belong ... See full summary »
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Ulla Jacobsson, Jarl Kulle, Ulf Palme, Olof Widgren
Votes: 157
54. Nora Helmer (1974 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama
A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder's interpretation of "A dolls house".
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Barbara Valentin, Klaus Löwitsch
Votes: 295
55. Oväder (1960 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
An elderly gentleman is trying to find peace and quiet in a fashionable residential house. He pass the time by chatting a local confectioner and by playing chess with his brother. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Uno Henning, Ingvar Kjellson, Gunnel Broström, Mona Malm
Votes: 149
56. The Lady from the Sea (1974 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Denholm Elliott, Carole Nimmons, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 52
57. Miss Julie (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Votes: 2,076
58. Miss Julie (2014)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Romance
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Director: Liv Ullmann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton, Nora McMenamy
Votes: 6,156
59. Miss Julie (1974 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie (Dame Helen Mirren), a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.
Directors: John Glenister, Robin Phillips | Stars: Helen Mirren, Donal McCann, Heather Canning, Mary Allen
Votes: 92
60. El pecado de Julia (1946)
90 min | Drama
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Amelia Bence, Aída Luz, Alberto Closas, Milagros de la Vega
Votes: 16
61. The Wild Duck (1976)
100 min | Drama
This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her ego-maniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Jean Seberg
Votes: 122
62.
NET Playhouse (1964–1972)
Episode:
An Enemy of the People
(1966)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Philip Bosco, James Daly, Barbara Dana, Lou Gilbert
Votes: 73
63. An Enemy of the People (1978)
G | 103 min | Drama
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Steve McQueen, Bibi Andersson, Charles Durning, Richard Dysart
Votes: 1,530
64. A Man There Was (1917)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama, War
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg
Votes: 2,324
65. Hedda Gabler (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard
Votes: 394
66. Little Murders (1971)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 3,567 | Gross: $0.26M
67.
Play of the Week (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Dybbuk
(1960)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Theodore Bikel, Sylvia Davis, Ludwig Donath, Vincent Gardenia
Votes: 33
68. The House of Bernarda Alba (1991 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama
A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest... See full summary »
Directors: Stuart Burge, Núria Espert | Stars: Deborah Findlay, Suzanna Hamilton, Gillian Hanna, Patricia Hayes
Votes: 85
69. The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)
103 min | Drama
After the death of her husband Bernada Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house for seven years. Adela, the youngest daughter, suffers the most. Pepe el Romano key to all women's despair.
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Irene Gutiérrez Caba, Ana Belén, Florinda Chico, Enriqueta Carballeira
Votes: 481
70. The Sea Gull (1968)
G | 141 min | Drama, Romance
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner
Votes: 1,087
71. The Seagull (1977)
132 min | Comedy, Drama
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Laura Betti, Giulio Brogi, Pamela Villoresi, Remo Girone
Votes: 99
72. Three Sisters (1970)
G | 165 min | Drama, Romance
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Directors: Laurence Olivier, John Sichel | Stars: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 494
73. The Black Monk (1988)
88 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
Director: Ivan Dykhovichnyy | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Lyubshin, Pyotr Fomenko, Lyubov Selyutina
Votes: 148
74. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Wallace Shawn, Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes, Jerry Mayer
Votes: 5,160 | Gross: $1.75M
75. Hay Fever (1984 TV Movie)
91 min | Comedy
It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.
Director: Cedric Messina | Stars: Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington, Patricia Hodge, Benjamin Whitrow
Votes: 76
76. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 978
77.
Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Year of the Sex Olympics
(1968)
105 min | Drama
Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve, Tony Vogel, Brian Cox
Votes: 191
78. A Christmas Carol (1977 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, Fantasy
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but then gets a visit from his companion Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. He urges Scrooge to change his life.
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn
Votes: 604
79.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Bar Mitzvah Boy
(1976)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Jeremy Steyn, Maria Charles, Bernard Spear, Adrienne Posta
Votes: 98
80. Nostromo (1996)
Drama
In an unstable South American country, capable Nostromo, a person of trust and a legend among his shipmates, is ordered to secure a shipment of silver and stop any revolutionaries who might... See full summary »
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Albert Finney, Colin Firth, Roberto Escobar
Votes: 279
81.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Robin Redbreast
(1970)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. ... See full summary »
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway, Freda Bamford
Votes: 499
82.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Millionairess
(1972)
100 min | Drama
Epifania is the richest woman in England. She's also strong-willed, highly intelligent, fiercely determined and an expert at Judo, which makes her hard to live with. She's also married, but... See full summary »
Director: William Slater | Stars: Maggie Smith, Peter Barkworth, James Villiers, Charles Gray
Votes: 180
83.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Penda's Fen
(1974)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Summer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Georgine Anderson, Ron Smerczak
Votes: 838
84.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Danton's Death
(1978)
95 min | Drama
The story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, who created the office of the Revolutionary Tribunal as a strong arm for the Revolutionary Government. Within months he knew ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Norman Rodway, Ian Richardson, Michael Pennington, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 66
85.
BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
Episode:
She Fell Among Thieves
(1978)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A villainess concocts a nefarious plot around her stepdaughter and matches wits with an English gentleman adventurer.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Eileen Atkins, Michael Jayston, Karen Dotrice
Votes: 75
86. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,931
87. Edward II (1970 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama, History
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start, when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Directors: Richard Marquand, Toby Robertson | Stars: Ian McKellen, Timothy West, Diane Fletcher, James Laurenson
Votes: 149
88. Edward II (1991)
R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Votes: 3,037 | Gross: $0.69M
89. Elizabeth R (1971)
520 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray
Votes: 1,940
90. Stevie (1978)
PG | 102 min | Biography, Drama
This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.
Director: Robert Enders | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, Trevor Howard
Votes: 545
91. The Patricia Neal Story (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama
This is the story of Patricia Neal who was a famous Hollywood actress and her marriage to Roald Dahl the author. Patricia had three massive strokes and was unable to walk or talk leaving ... See full summary »
Directors: Anthony Harvey, Anthony Page | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Dirk Bogarde, Ken Kercheval, Jane Merrow
Votes: 213
92.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Memento Mori
(1992)
TV-14 | Drama
A group of old people is being frightened by mysterious phone calls.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Stephanie Cole, Jacqueline Leonard, Renée Asherson, Michael Hordern
Votes: 208
93. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell
Votes: 9,626
94. Smiley's People (1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 4,765
95. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,615
96.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
3 Clear Sundays
(1965)
85 min | Drama
A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Tony Selby, Rita Webb, Finnuala O'Shannon, Dickie Owen
Votes: 80
97.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
The End of Arthur's Marriage
(1965)
70 min | Drama
A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Ken Jones, Maureen Ampleford, Charles Lamb, Winifred Dennis
Votes: 58
98.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Up the Junction
(1965)
72 min | Drama
Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Carol White, Geraldine Sherman, Vickery Turner, Tony Selby
Votes: 260
99.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
In Two Minds
(1967)
73 min | Drama
In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family,... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Anna Cropper, Brian Phelan, George A. Cooper, Helen Booth
Votes: 67
100. Poor Cow (1967)
Approved | 101 min | Drama
A young woman lives a life full of bad choices. At a young age she has a baby by an abusive thief who quickly lands in prison. When her son goes missing, she gets to grips with what is most important to her.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Terence Stamp, Carol White, John Bindon, Queenie Watts
Votes: 1,988
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