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A Boy Named Flora A
A Boy Named Flora A (花甲男孩轉大人) is a 2017 Taiwanese Q Series drama adapted from Yang Fu-min's novel, directed by Chu Yu-ning, starring Crowd Lu as Zheng Hua-jia in a family deathbed story, with a 2018 film sequel.
A Day for a Miracle
A Day for a Miracle (Das Wunder von Kärnten) is a 2011 German-Austrian TV drama directed by Andreas Prochaska, starring Ken Duken as a surgeon saving a drowned girl; it won the 2013 International Emmy for best TV movie.
A Princess for Christmas
A Princess for Christmas is a 2011 Hallmark Channel TV movie directed by Michael Damian, starring Katie McGrath, Roger Moore, and Sam Heughan; premiered December 3, 2011, 91 minutes, shot in Romania, an early royal-Christmas romance.
A Wrinkle in Time (2003 film)
A Wrinkle in Time (2003 film), also aired 2004 on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney: Canadian-made TV fantasy directed by John Kent Harrison, starring Katie Stuart, David Dorfman, Gregory Smith, and Alfre Woodard, adapted from L'Engle's 1962 novel.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) is Delbert Mann's made-for-TV adaptation of Remarque's novel, starring Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, and Patricia Neal; broadcast on CBS November 14, 1979, it won a Golden Globe and an Emmy and follows the book more closely than the 1930 film.
Animal Farm (1999 film)
Animal Farm (1999) is a TNT/Hallmark Entertainment live-action TV film of Orwell's novella, directed by John Stephenson, using Jim Henson Creature Shop animatronics, voiced by Patrick Stewart and Ian Holm, with a changed hopeful ending.
Beijinger in New York
Beijinger in New York (北京人在纽约), also A Native of Beijing in New York, is a 21-episode 1993 Chinese TV drama directed by Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang, adapted from Cao Guilin's novel, the first Chinese series shot entirely overseas, starring Jiang Wen and Wang Ji.
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 Lifetime TV movie, a modern teen retelling of Stacpoole's 1908 novel, starring Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites as students stranded on a Caribbean island; Metascore 51, IMDb 5.3/10.
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Brexit: The Uncivil War is a 2019 Channel 4/HBO television drama, also titled Brexit, written by James Graham, directed by Toby Haynes, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Vote Leave strategist Dominic Cummings and Rory Kinnear as Craig Oliver.
Clear History
Clear History (2013) is an HBO Films comedy directed by Greg Mottola, written by Larry David, Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, starring David as Nathan Flomm, who forfeits a billion-dollar stake and plots revenge on Martha's Vineyard.
Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga
Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (Hotel Adlon – A Family Saga) is a 2013 German ZDF three-part miniseries directed by Uli Edel, following the Berlin Grand Hotel Adlon from 1904 to its 1997 reopening through the fictional Sonja Schadt.
Dinotopia (miniseries)
Dinotopia (2002): a six-hour Hallmark Entertainment miniseries on ABC, directed by Marco Brambilla, adapted from James Gurney's books about castaway brothers in a human-dinosaur world; $80 million budget and record 1,800 VFX shots.
Doctor Who (film)
Doctor Who: The Movie (1996 TV movie) starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Eric Roberts as the Master; a $5 million BBC-Fox-Universal backdoor pilot shot in Vancouver that failed to revive the series.
Elvis (1979 film)
Elvis (1979) is John Carpenter's ABC made-for-television biopic starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, premiered 11 February 1979, with vocals dubbed by Ronnie McDowell, three Emmy nominations, and later theatrical releases abroad.
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a 1985 ABC television film, sequel to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, directed by Jim and Ken Wheat from George Lucas's story, starring Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, and Aubree Miller, and winner of a 1986 Emmy for visual effects.
Fahrenheit 451 (2018 film)
Fahrenheit 451 (2018 film), also known as the HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel, is a television film directed by Ramin Bahrani, starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon, set in a future Cleveland with The Nine, Eels, and a bird-encoded library; it premiered May 19, 2018, scoring 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gia
Gia (1998) is an HBO biographical television film directed by Michael Cristofer, starring Angelina Jolie as supermodel Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS in 1986; also called the HBO Gia biopic.
Go Now
Go Now is a 1995 BBC2 television drama, also called a TV movie, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell, about Bristol plasterer Nick Cameron (Robert Carlyle) facing multiple sclerosis; it won a BAFTA for Best Editing and the RTS Best Writer award.
Gracie's Choice
Gracie's Choice is a 2004 Lifetime television drama directed by Peter Werner, starring Kristen Bell, Anne Heche, and Diane Ladd, based on Rena Dictor LeBlanc's Reader's Digest article about Amy Waldroop, a teen who legally adopted her siblings.
King Charles III (film)
King Charles III (film) is a 2017 BBC Two television drama, also called the Mike Bartlett adaptation, directed by Rupert Goold, imagining Charles's accession and a constitutional crisis over royal assent, starring Tim Pigott-Smith.
Mazes and Monsters
Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 CBS TV movie, Tom Hanks's first lead role, adapted from Rona Jaffe's novel about a D&D-style game causing a psychotic break, born of the Egbert case and Satanic Panic.
Meantime
Meantime (1983) is Mike Leigh's Channel 4 television film about an unemployed East End family in Thatcher-era Britain, starring Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, and Gary Oldman in his first major role.
Minutemen (film)
Minutemen is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Lev L. Spiro, starring Jason Dolley, Luke Benward, and Nicholas Braun as teens whose time machine causes a black hole; premiered January 25, 2008, drawing 6.5 million viewers.
Murder Is Easy (TV series)
Murder Is Easy (2023) is a two-part BBC One and BritBox adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel, written by Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, directed by Meenu Gaur, starring David Jonsson as a Nigerian Luke Fitzwilliam, set in 1953, filmed in East Lothian, Scotland.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (British TV programme)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (BBC, 1954): Nigel Kneale's live television adaptation of Orwell's novel, produced by Rudolph Cartier, starring Peter Cushing; controversial broadcast whose 16 December 1954 repeat drew the largest UK audience since the Coronation.
Page Eight
Page Eight (2011) is a BBC political spy thriller written and directed by David Hare, starring Bill Nighy as MI5 analyst Johnny Worricker, with Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, and Ralph Fiennes; first of the Worricker Trilogy, Emmy-winning, aired on BBC Two and PBS.
Persuasion (2007 film)
Persuasion (2007) is an ITV television film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, directed by Adrian Shergold, written by Simon Burke, starring Sally Hawkins as Anne Elliot and Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth, part of ITV's 2007 Austen season with Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Pirates of Silicon Valley (微軟英雄) is a 1999 TNT television movie directed by Martyn Burke, dramatizing the Apple-Microsoft rivalry of Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall), based partly on Fire in the Valley.
Pixel Perfect
Pixel Perfect (2004) is a Disney Channel Original Movie, also known by its hologram character Loretta Modern, directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé, starring Ricky Ullman and Leah Pipes, about a hologram singer fronting the band the Zettabytes.
Princess Protection Program
Princess Protection Program, a 2009 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Allison Liddi-Brown, stars Demi Lovato as Princess Rosalinda of Costa Luna and Selena Gomez as Carter Mason; its June 26, 2009 premiere drew 8.5 million viewers.