Literary Adaptation Movies
- 2010
Flooding with Love for The Kid
Flooding with Love for The Kid4.52010HD
A one-man adaptation of First Blood, filmed over the course of four months, entirely within a 220-sq. ft. apartment.
- 2015
A Mighty Nice Man
A Mighty Nice Man6.82015HD
Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.
- 1908
Trilby
Trilby01908HD
Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.
- 1962
Mama, I Need You!
Mama, I Need You!01962HD
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...
- 2015
Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes
Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes02015HD
Traumatised by a painfull breakup, Joseph decides on stepping out of his house, and finding some sugar in order to remove bitterness from his life.
- 1959
The Chair
The Chair01959HD
After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee...
- 2024
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire02024HD
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's wo...
- 1958
The Tormented Beauty
The Tormented Beauty01958HD
Guerrilla member Ting Siu-yuen works as a playwright and Lee, the leader of an opera troupe. They conceal their identities in the troupe in order to g...
- 1982
Treasure Island
Treasure Island101982HD
Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story of Treasure Island comes to life in this colourful...
- 1960
The Wonderful Partner
The Wonderful Partner01960HD
Wong Chat is jobless. He is forced to become a burglar. He breaks into Han Siu-yu and her boyfriend Cheung Wai-lim's home, but it is just the time whe...
- 2012
The Dark Sleep
The Dark Sleep3.32012HD
Following her recent divorce, a writer moves into a new home to begin penning her next book. Little does she know this house has some dark secrets. A...
- 1959
The Natural Son
The Natural Son01959HD
Chor Yuen started his directorial career with a bang. From its very first image, The Natural Son establishes Chor as a filmmaker of stylistic flourish...
- 1988
Romelia's Secret
Romelia's Secret7.21988HD
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
- 1967
Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell
Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell01967HD
Ghost-faced To is murdered in a mortuary after paying a visit to Muk Lan-fa. A set of teeth is found missing from another dead body. Lan-fa’s sister S...
- 1964
Spy No. 13
Spy No. 1301964HD
During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a re...
- 1989
The Dream
The Dream8.71989HD
Starring Jeremy Irons in a one-man drama, adapted from a Dostoevsky short story by Murray Watts. In his dream, the Man visits an unspoilt Garden of Ed...
- 1980
The Woman from Sarajevo
The Woman from Sarajevo01980HD
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice...
- 1938
Sable Cicada
Sable Cicada61938HD
Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada),one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide...
- 1969
Spring, Spring
Spring, Spring01969HD
Chun-sam is working as a servant at Bong-pil's home to be his future son in-law. His daughter, Jeom-sun has grown enough to get wed. But her father th...
- 1895
Death Scene
Death Scene01895HD
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.