Literary Adaptation Movies

  • 2010
    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    4.52010HD

    A one-man adaptation of First Blood, filmed over the course of four months, entirely within a 220-sq. ft. apartment.

    Flooding with Love for The Kid
  • 2015
    A Mighty Nice Man

    A Mighty Nice Man

    A Mighty Nice Man

    6.82015HD

    Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.

    A Mighty Nice Man
  • 1908
    Trilby

    Trilby

    Trilby

    01908HD

    Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

    Trilby
  • 1962
    Mama, I Need You!

    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...

    Mama, I Need You!
  • 2015
    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes

    02015HD

    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.

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes
  • 1959
    The Chair

    The Chair

    The Chair

    01959HD

    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...

    The Chair
  • 2024
    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

    02024HD

    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...

    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
  • 1958
    The Tormented Beauty

    The Tormented Beauty

    The Tormented Beauty

    01958HD

    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...

    The Tormented Beauty
  • 1982
    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    101982HD

    Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story of Treasure Island comes to life in this colourful...

    Treasure Island
  • 1960
    The Wonderful Partner

    The Wonderful Partner

    The Wonderful Partner

    01960HD

    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...

    The Wonderful Partner
  • 2012
    The Dark Sleep

    The Dark Sleep

    The Dark Sleep

    3.32012HD

    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...

    The Dark Sleep
  • 1959
    The Natural Son

    The Natural Son

    The Natural Son

    01959HD

    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...

    The Natural Son
  • 1988
    Romelia's Secret

    Romelia's Secret

    Romelia's Secret

    7.21988HD

    The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

    Romelia's Secret
  • 1967
    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    01967HD

    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...

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell
  • 1964
    Spy No. 13

    Spy No. 13

    Spy No. 13

    01964HD

    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...

    Spy No. 13
  • 1989
    The Dream

    The Dream

    The Dream

    8.71989HD

    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...

    The Dream
  • 1980
    The Woman from Sarajevo

    The Woman from Sarajevo

    The Woman from Sarajevo

    01980HD

    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...

    The Woman from Sarajevo
  • 1938
    Sable Cicada

    Sable Cicada

    Sable Cicada

    61938HD

    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...

    Sable Cicada
  • 1969
    Spring, Spring

    Spring, Spring

    Spring, Spring

    01969HD

    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...

    Spring, Spring
  • 1895
    Death Scene

    Death Scene

    Death Scene

    01895HD

    The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

    Death Scene