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Prose
see all genres ›Read the book, see the movie. Old-school cultural snobbism suggests that's always diminishing, as if vulgar, populist cinema could never equal the rarefied intelligence of the printed word. But there have been outstanding adaptations throughout the medium's history (some even improving on the source materials).
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Genres / Adaptation / Literary / Prose
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Accattone
The first of Pier Paolo Pasolini's highly acclaimed films and the winner of numerous film festival prizes, ACCATTONE uses a talented cast to present a vivid picture of the Roman slums. Based on one of the filmmaker/poet's novels, this story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls is realism at its earthiness. It is...Start your free trial to watch
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Aladin, or the Wonderful Lamp
An extravaganza of early special effects, the Pathé ALADIN (lacking the more common double "d") delights in the story’s magical transformations. Trick shots and striking color tinting accent the elastic reality that comes with the wonderful lamp. The fantasia only lasts a single reel but that's time enough...Start your free trial to watch
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Alila
For the apartment dwellers of ALILA, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (Yael Abecassis, KADOSH) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali (Hanna Laslo), Gabi's sole...Start your free trial to watch
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Ambush
AMBUSH takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia by the Finnish border. A young lieutenant is sent on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, leaving his beautiful fiancee behind. During his mission he receives the tragic news that she has been killed by the Russians. Now the war is personal and...Start your free trial to watch
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And Then There Were None
Ten people, strangers to each other, are invited to a lavish estate on an island. Through a recording, their mysterious host accuses each of his "guests" of murder and proceeds to exact ''justice." The tension mounts as, one by one, the number of people are reduced through the ingenious plotting of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Avenging Conscience
D.W. Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in this ambitious amalgam of the writer’s poetry and prose: “Annabel Lee” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” flavored with shades of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Conqueror Worm." Poe’s tales are interwoven in one...Start your free trial to watch
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Behind Convent Walls
BEHIND CONVENT WALLS is an erotic arthouse film by cult director Walerian Borowzcyk (THE BEAST), set in a convent, where a Mother Superior tries to maintain order to prevent the nuns from temptation. But when things get out of control, the church inflicts cruel punishment to the nuns for their sins. One of...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Like Me
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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Boccaccio '70
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in BOCCACCIO '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA), Luchino Visconti (THE LEOPARD) and Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through...Start your free trial to watch
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Brave New West
An off-the-wall odyssey that tells the story of how one man's passion for the natural world fueled the creation of an extraordinary and unlikely institution in the American West. It also shows how the passion of youth is tempered and ripens with age into a balanced view of a natural world. Jim Stiles arrived in Utah in 1975,...Start your free trial to watch
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Bubù
A nasty tale of sexual corruption (and infection) wrapped in the gauziest soft-focus aesthetic, this adaptation of the racy French novel "Bubù di Montparnasse" by Charles Louis Philippe was an early salvo in Italian cinema's very sexy 1970s. Beautiful Bertha (Ottavia Piccolo) is the poor laundress lured into the world's...Start your free trial to watch
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By the Law
BY THE LAW breaks down into several stylistically different parts, only one of which resembles the grotesque extravaganza of MR. WEST. Gone is Kuleshov's insistence on the straight-forward, plot-advancing shot. Gone is the idea of montage as a step-by-step elaboration of some process. Rather, the opening sequence slowly...Start your free trial to watch
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The Call of Cthulhu
THE CALL OF CTHULHU is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos." The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction and it moves from the...Start your free trial to watch
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La captive
Chantal Akerman’s insinuating chamber drama distills the romantic pathologies of suspicion and control with remarkable precision. Based on the fifth volume Proust’s IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, LA CAPTIVE treats the novel’s fetishized structures of detail and time as symptoms of a slow spreading sickness. The film opens with Simon...Start your free trial to watch
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
An insignificant event becomes a turning point in the career of Nikos Dyzma, a funeral eulogist. After he embarrasses the hated Vice Prime Minister, his life changes dramatically. Dyzma rises up the political ladder, becoming a hero to the workers, other elected officials and to their bored wives.Start your free trial to watch
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The Castle
A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) "the castle." Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the...Start your free trial to watch