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Adaptation
see all genres ›Novels, short stories, plays and poems gain second, third, perhaps nine or more lives when adapted to the screen. Literary and theatrical adaptations have been a staple of film’s first century. Adaptations of comic books and remakes of earlier movies are staples of film’s second.
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Genres / Adaptation
SUB-GENRES · Artistic · Cinematic · Literary · Subliterary · Theatrical
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Chariots of the Gods
"Fifty million stars in our galaxy have the potential of supporting life forms capable of traveling to other planets," says world-renowned authority Erich von Daniken, whose film version of his best-selling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, gives stunning visual proof that some form of life from outer space...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cherry Orchard
Acclaimed international director Michael Cacoyannis (ZORBA THE GREEK) and a dream cast of British screen talent revive Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of imprisonment in wealth and regret. Working from his own translation, Cacoyannis expands and condenses THE CHERRY ORCHARD with a fidelity that preserves...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chess Players
In the kingdom of Awadh, rich landowners Meer (Saeed Jaffrey) and Mirza (Sanjeev Kumar) pour every ounce of passion into a never-ending game of chess. At the same time, an ambitious British General (Sir Richard Attenborough) plots his own moves against Awadh's King (Amjad Khan) and Prime Minister (Victor...Start your free trial to watch
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Chicago
Sexy, jazz-loving and dressed to kill, Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) has a doting, handsome husband in Victor Varconi; not to mention a gold-digging affair on the side with Eugene Pallette, who pays and pays, eventually with his life. Put on trial for murder, Roxie secures lawyer Billy Flynn (Robert Edeson), equal part mob...Start your free trial to watch
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A Chinese Tall Story
While on the quest to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures, the Tang Monk (Nicholas Tse) and his three disciples led by the Monkey King come under attack by the evil Tree Demon. Tang escapes and meets Meiyan (Charlene Choi), an ugly lizard imp who instantly falls in love with the handsome but chaste monk....Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella
French film pioneer Georges Méliès found the tale of Cinderella irresistible, producing a five-minute, full-color version in 1899 and this twenty four-minute version in 1912. Abandoning his earlier approach of hand-tinting each figure in favor of full-frame color tinting, he lavishes his attention on elaborate invention,...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella
An elaborately produced version of the well known fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham. Although in-camera trick photography is important for the story, it is rather conventional, having been introduced over ten years earlier by French filmmaker Georges Méliès....Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch
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College Chums
Loosely based on Brandon Thomas' farce-comedy play CHARLEY'S AUNT, the last two-thirds of COLLEGE CHUMS may seem unique in that it shows one scene entirely in an establishing shot. In fact, the film was often screened with live actors behind the screen providing synchronous dialogue for the on-screen characters, a popular...Start your free trial to watch
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The Color Out of Space
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's...Start your free trial to watch
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The Comb
THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, THE COMB is an exploration of the subconscious visualized as a labyrinthine playhouse haunted by a doll-like explorer. A mesmerizing and resonant...Start your free trial to watch
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Corky of Gasoline Alley
How long can a cousin visit? That's the question for Corky (Scotty Beckett) when his wife's cousin (Gordon Jones) makes himself an unwanted houseguest, begins telling Wallet family members how to run their businesses and blows up one of Corky's restaurant ranges AND one of Skeezix's (Jimmy Lydon) cars!...Start your free trial to watch
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A Corner in Wheat
A CORNER IN WHEAT, adapted from the Frank Norris novel THE PIT, tells the story of a business man who corners the market on wheat, creating bread lines and despair in the process. This D.W. Griffith short was chosen by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry in the 1990s.Start your free trial to watch
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The Count of Monte Cristo
A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His...Start your free trial to watch
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A Country Doctor
Winner of several festival prizes for animation, Koji Yamamura’s adaptation of the Franz Kafka story is a glowing vision of dread. A crude groom mysteriously appears with horses when a country doctor is called on emergency. The stranger ushers the old man into the night, staying behind with the maid. The...Start your free trial to watch