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The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго)
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), also Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ayvengo, is a 1982 Mosfilm adventure film by Sergei Tarasov based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, with Vladimir Vysotsky's ballads, 28.4 million Soviet viewers, ninth at the 1983 box office.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) is a Kevin Reynolds-directed Touchstone/Spyglass adventure film starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris, adapted loosely from Dumas's novel; $35M budget, $54.2M US gross, filmed in Ireland and Malta.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American historical drama directed by William Dieterle, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel.
The Idiot (白痴) (1951 film)
The Idiot (白痴, Hakuchi) is Akira Kurosawa's 1951 Shochiku adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in postwar Sapporo with Masayuki Mori, Setsuko Hara, and Toshiro Mifune; cut by the studio from 4 hours 25 minutes to the surviving 166 minutes.
The Innocents (1961 film)
The Innocents (1961) is Jack Clayton's British black-and-white CinemaScope ghost film adapting Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, starring Deborah Kerr as governess Miss Giddens, scripted by Truman Capote, photographed by Freddie Francis.
The Invisible Woman (2013 film)
The Invisible Woman (2013) is Ralph Fiennes's second film as director, a biographical drama adapted by Abi Morgan from Claire Tomalin's 1990 biography of Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, starring Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Joanna Scanlan.
The Man Who Invented Christmas (film)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017 film), directed by Bharat Nalluri, dramatizes Charles Dickens writing A Christmas Carol in 1843; Dan Stevens and Christopher Plummer star, based on Les Standiford's book.
The Man Who Would Be King (film)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) is John Huston's adventure film adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 short story, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine as ex-soldiers conquering Kafiristan; developed for over twenty years and nominated for four Academy Awards.
The Monkey King 3 (西游记女儿国)
The Monkey King 3 (西游记女儿国) is Cheang Pou-soi's 2018 Filmko Films fantasy romance comedy, third in his Journey to the West series, starring Aaron Kwok and Zhao Liying.
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Armando Iannucci, adapting Dickens's 1849 novel, starring Dev Patel with Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, and Peter Capaldi.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) is David O. Selznick's black-and-white swashbuckler directed by John Cromwell, starring Ronald Colman in a double role with Madeleine Carroll, Oscar-nominated and in the National Film Registry.
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1995) is Roland Joffé's Hollywood Pictures romantic drama freely adapted from Hawthorne's novel, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall; it grossed $10.4 million against a $46-50 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Secret Garden (2020 film)
The Secret Garden (2020) is a British fantasy drama directed by Marc Munden, adapted by Jack Thorne from Burnett's 1911 novel, starring Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, and Julie Walters, set in 1947 with a rewritten ending.
The Three Musketeers (1993 film)
The Three Musketeers is a 1993 American action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Stephen Herek, and loosely adapted from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel.
Tom and Huck
Tom and Huck is a 1995 Disney adventure film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro, adapted from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Tom Jones (1963 film)
Tom Jones (1963) is Tony Richardson's British comedy adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, written by John Osborne. It won four Oscars including Best Picture and grossed about $37.6 million on a $1 million budget.
Treasure Island (1950 film)
Treasure Island (1950), also known as Walt Disney's Treasure Island, is Disney's first fully live-action feature film, directed by Byron Haskin, starring Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver, whose West Country accent defined the movie-pirate voice.
Valmont (film)
Valmont is Miloš Forman's 1989 film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, starring Colin Firth and Annette Bening; a $35 million Orion Pictures production that flopped against Frears's Dangerous Liaisons but won Césars and an Oscar nomination.
Vanity Fair (2004 film)
Vanity Fair (2004 film), Mira Nair's adaptation of Thackeray's 1848 novel, stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp; released September 1, 2004 by Focus Features, it grossed $19.5 million on a $23 million budget and scored 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Victor Frankenstein (film)
Victor Frankenstein (2015 film), also called a Paul McGuigan Frankenstein adaptation: 20th Century Fox horror film starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe as Igor, told from Igor's viewpoint, released November 25, 2015, grossing $34.2 million worldwide.
War and Peace (1956 film)
War and Peace (1956) is King Vidor's American-Italian epic adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer; 208 minutes, Paramount, Oscar-nominated, and the film that spurred the Soviet Bondarchuk version.
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
Wuthering Heights (1939 film), William Wyler's Hollywood adaptation produced by Samuel Goldwyn, stars Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Eight Oscar nominations, one win for Gregg Toland's cinematography; covers only the first half of Brontë's novel.
Wuthering Heights (2011 film)
Wuthering Heights (2011) is Andrea Arnold's British film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson, with a Black Heathcliff, sparse dialogue, and Robbie Ryan's Venice-winning cinematography.