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2. Les Misérables. 19982h 14mPG-13. 7.4 (44K) Rate. 65Metascore. Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him. Director Bille August Stars Liam Neeson Geoffrey Rush Uma Thurman.
Aug 31, 2024 · One of the more notorious adaptations is Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations from 1998. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella and Ethan Hawke as Finn, set in modern-day New York, it's a classic ...
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen.
- Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen.
- A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens.
- Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) Helen Fielding (Goodreads Author)
- 10 Pride & Prejudice
- 9 Emma
- 8 The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring
- 7 Romeo + Juliet
- 6 to Kill A Mockingbird
- 5 12 Years A Slave
- 4 If Beale Street Could Talk
- 3 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- 2 A Farewell to Arms
- 1 The Man in The Iron Mask
Before Atonement and Anna Karenina, Joe Wright made his directorial debut with Pride & Prejudice. Keira Knightley takes on Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett, while Matthew MacFadyen is the aloof Mr. Darcy. Wright’s Pride & Prejudice isn’t a faithful adaptation to Austen’s beloved 1812 novel, as it chose to stray from the rigid nature of the Regency e...
Emma is another Jane Austen adaptation that the world didn’t know it needed. Released in 2020, Anya Taylor-Joy stars as twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse, who is searching for a new governess after her previous one marries. Related: Here Are Anya Taylor-Joy's Best Performances, Ranked Screenwriter Eleanor Catton admitted she had never actually rea...
Almost fifty years after J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring launched the first part of The Lord of the Rings, it was finally made into a movie. A Hobbit named Frodo inherits one of the ancient Rings from his cousin, leading to an epic journey where he needs to destroy it so the Dark Lord Sauron can be taken down permanently. The Lord of th...
Shakespeare’s doomed lovers have graced the stage for centuries, but it was Baz Luhrmann who gave them an electrifying update in Romeo + Juliet. Set in Verona Beach, Luhrmann makes the Montagues and the Capulets two business empires with a penchant for shooting guns, fast cars, and acting like the mafia. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire...
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best movies ever released, but it was based on Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the early 1930s, Scott Finch and her brother Jem live in a small Alabama town with their father Atticus Finch, a lawyer. He is selected to be the lawyer for a young Black man accused of the rape of a white woman, expo...
12 Years a Slave originally was a memoirby Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped in Washington D.C., taken to New Orleans, and forced to be a slave until he escaped. The 2013 film adaptation was so realistic in describing the conditions that historians were amazed at the amount of accuracy involved. It’s an unflinching look at America’s dark past, ...
James Baldwin was one of the most influential Black writers of his time, and, in 2018, his novel If Beale Street Could Talk was finally adapted into a movie. Barry Jenkins, the director of Moonlight, directed a tour de force that shed light on the New York City that Baldwin once fled to Paris from. A young couple must grapple with the racism of the...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was adapted from Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, and it was only the second film to ever win all five major Oscars at the Academy Awards. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is transferred to a mental institution after the rape of a fifteen-year-old girl. This movie is absolutely brilliant as Randle rebels against the head nurs...
Released in 1957 by the director Charles Vidor, A Farewell To Arms is an incredible cinematic adaptation of the novel of the same name written by the one and only Earnest Hemingway. Simply put, it's about love in the time of war, and whether it could flourish and survive in such a violent atmosphere. Related: The Greatest Book-To-Movie Adaptations ...
After the unprecedented success of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio takes on a leading role in the action-drama film, The Man in the Iron Mask. This beautiful mix of literature and film is written, produced and directed by Randall Wallace and starring, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, and Gabriel Byrne as the four musketeers. The movie's e...
- Emma (2020) Adaptation of Emma (1815) written by Jane Austen. A visionary young lady, Emma, appears in the fourth novel by Jane Austen. She is into matchmaking and enjoys introducing her single friends.
- Jane Eyre (2006) Adaptation of Jane Eyre (1847) written by Charlotte Brontë. Charlotte Brontë’s novel inspired multiple adaptations, but few of them capture all its nuances.
- Les Misérables (2012) Adaptation of Les Misérables (1862) written by Victor Hugo. This adaptation of Les Misérables is for those people who are fond of musicals.
- Little Women (2019) Adaptation of Little Women (1868) written by Louisa May Alcott. The movie revolves around the story of charming female characters who challenge gender stereotypes.
A list of 50 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Third Man (1949), Evil Under the Sun (1982), The Halfway House (1944), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and The Wicker Man (1973). About this list: Classic movies hand-picked by the British Film Institute. Landmark films by legendary names, the widely loved and rarely seen - now streaming ...
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The Jungle Book. 1942. The original screen version of Rudyard Kipling's tale of a young boy who grows up with a family of wolves. Kim. 1951. Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale involving an orphaned English boy in 1880's India who assumes a native's identity and gets involved in local espionage plot.
