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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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SUB-GENRES · Artistic · Cinematic · Literary · Subliterary · Theatrical
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Female Convict: Scorpion
When a band of assassins invade the home of their target, they find only his bride-to-be Nami and give her a cruel choice: either she kills her fiance's sister or they kill her fiance. Trapped, Nami becomes a killer and is sent to prison where she can only survive by becoming more ruthless than those...Start your free trial to watch
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Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the wilderness for two years to...Start your free trial to watch
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Floria
Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing melodramatic gestures from his actors with a ruined soundtrack of static and full-on textural experiments that simulate decayed nitrate film bursting with color or fading to white,...Start your free trial to watch
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Fooling Casper
Thelma Hill and Bud Duncan are featured in this 1928 F.B.O. comedy two-reeler. This short and several others were an attempt to bring Jimmy Murphy's popular comic strip Toots and Casper to the silver screen. Cullen Johnson appears as their boy Buttercup.Start your free trial to watch
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Forward March, Time!
An animated fantasia "based on the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky," this dazzling kaleidoscope of imagery pays tribute to that fabled Soviet poet, playwright and Futurist in terms as imaginatively fabulist as any Western animation of the 1970s "head" era. Beginning with a wrecking ball repeatedly smashing...Start your free trial to watch
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Frontier
Based on the surrealist novel "Froktog" by famed author Mulnar Typsthat, FRONTIER is an epic saga set against the aftermath of the Klornsthog Revolution. Two members of the Expansionist Research Corps embark on a journey to civilize the most uncharted of territories. But the more these wartorn soldiers attempt to tame the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Frozen North
A parody of the Western melodramas of William S. Hart, THE FROZEN NORTH was filmed partly on location near Truckee, California, and the intertitles drew from Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Charles Chaplin later used Truckee for his masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH and drew upon "McGrew" for his...Start your free trial to watch
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Full Contact
Unsurpassed action-packed set pieces, dazzling direction and one of Chow Yun-Fat's most explosive performance fuel FULL CONTACT, a first-rate, high-octane tale of revenge and retribution. To help his buddy Sam (Anthony Wong) settle a gambling debt, Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat) reluctantly agrees to join forces with Judge (Simon Yam)...Start your free trial to watch
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Gasoline Alley
The popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature film from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame). Scotty Beckett and Jimmy Lydon are Corky and Skeezix, half-brothers who find themselves in the restaurant business until...Start your free trial to watch
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Gente di rispetto
American fashion model Jennifer O'Neal became a major movie star with 1971's nostalgic romance SUMMER OF '42. Yet subsequent flops and limited acting chops soon led her to accept parts abroad, including ones for the prestigious Luchino Visconti (THE INNOCENT), Italian horror specialist Lucio Fulci (THE...Start your free trial to watch
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The Getting of Wisdom
In THE GETTING OF WISDOM, Oscar®-nominated director Bruce Beresford crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham. Chronicling her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne finishing...Start your free trial to watch
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Gilles' Wife
Based on the novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe, GILLES' WIFE is a haunting tale of love and betrayal in a small mining town on the outskirts of France. In this startling film from director Frédérin Fonteyne (AN AFFAIR OF LOVE), Emmanuelle Devos (KINGS AND QUEEN) gives an extraordinary performance as a devoted wife who struggles...Start your free trial to watch
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Girl on a Motorcycle
A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE stars Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull, two actors at the height of their impressive cool, as lovers with a taste for the open road. Faithfull stars as Rebecca, a bored housewife who bolts from her home in the French...Start your free trial to watch
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The Good Sheperdess and the Evil Princess
The Cinderella story gets a fresh spin in this enchanting fantasy from pioneering French director Georges Méliès. A nimble fairy whisks the kind shepherdess (spelled "sheperdess" in the English title) into a charmed realm of beauty and dance, while the noisome princess is brought down a few pegs in life,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Grand Inquisitor
Legendary blacklisted Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, 90, makes a stunning return to the screen in this haunting short film that writer-director Eddie Muller describes as "a noir fairy tale, based on actual events." A young woman (Leah Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to...Start your free trial to watch
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Greedy Humpty Dumpty
This COLOR CLASSICS cartoon elaborates upon the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme with touches from the myth of Icarus and Mother Goose. The roly-poly egg is a moneyed tyrant in this telling. He imagines that the sun is a giant ball of gold in a frankly hallucinatory sequence and commands the villagers to build...Start your free trial to watch
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Green Snake
Demons have never looked better than in this delirious fantasy film directed by Tsui Hark. The story of two snake demons (Maggie Cheung and Joey Wang) and their love/hate relationships with mortal men is a dazzling visual feast, filled with stunning plateaus, vivid costumes and sets and unforgettable images.Start your free trial to watch