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Great Literature on Film

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Catch 22

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Catch 22
(1970) [M]


Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, Catch 22 is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are frightened, nervous, often...  More


 
Dracula (1931)

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Dracula (1931)
(1931) [PG]


Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale, none is more enduring than this 1931 original. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. Bela Lugosi, starring...  More


 
Phantom Of The Opera

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Phantom Of The Opera
(1943) [PG]


Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with...  More


 
Kangaroo

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Kangaroo
(1986)


D.H. Lawrence's tale of an idealist writer who flees the wreck of post-war Europe in search of a freer, more tolerant world in which to re-build his marriage. He and his wife settle in Australia and soon face the leader of a secret Fascist army who tries to bully them into em-bracing his ideas.....  More


 
Under Milk Wood

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Under Milk Wood
(1973) [PG]


Dylan Thomas only wrote one play and this is the first and only screen adaptation of that world famous Welsh classic. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world, and on celluloid it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of...  More


 
Henry V (Branagh)

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Henry V (Branagh)
(1989) [PG]


Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Kenneth Branagh's award–winning production of Shakespeare's Henry V, a classic story of conflict, courage, honour and heroism. Branagh is electrifying in the title role, a king whose inspired leadership and full-blooded courage rouses his bewildered and...  More


 
Peter Brook's Marat Sade (aka "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade")

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Peter Brook's Marat Sade (aka "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade")
(1967) [M]


The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become...  More


 
All The Rivers Run (2 Disc Set)

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All The Rivers Run (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]


Set in the boom town of Echuca, Australia's largest inland port in the 1890s, All the Rivers Run is the classic romantic tale of love between a woman, a man and the river that binds them together. When the young Philadelphia Gordon is shipwrecked and off the coast of Australia and her parents are...  More


 
The Great Escape

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The Great Escape
(1963) [PG]


In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner,...  More


 
Doctor Zhivago (2 Disc Set)

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Doctor Zhivago (2 Disc Set)
(1965) [PG]


From the novel by Boris Pasternak, David Lean’s Film Of Doctor Zhivago is hailed by critics everywhere as brilliant and one of the most popular movies ever. A sweeping epic about one charismatic man’s struggle that spans several decades to survive in war-convulsed Russia. That man is Yuri...  More


 
The Old Man And The Sea

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The Old Man And The Sea
(1958) [PG]


Based on the classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The story of an aging, life-long fisherman attempting to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip in the gulf waters off Cuba. After spending most of his life alone, and losing his only...  More


 
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
(2001) [MA]


With memorable performances from Nicolas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air, Leaving Las Vegas) and Penelope Cruz (Blow, All The Pretty Horses), acclaimed director John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) creates breathtaking imagery set amid the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II. When...  More


 
The World According To Garp

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The World According To Garp
(1982) [M]


In this splendid film adaption of John Irving's bestseller, Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp, a complex and unpredictable writer at odds with a violent and cruel world. "The World According to Garp" earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor, John Lithgow, and Best...  More


 
The Tailor Of Panama

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The Tailor Of Panama
(2001) [MA]


In this seductive spy thriller based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carre, Academy Award winner GEOFFREY RUSH delivers a dazzling performance as Harry Pendel, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and famous of Panama and husband of the beautiful Louisa (JAMIE LEE CURTIS). And in the role of...  More


 
Clear And Present Danger

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Clear And Present Danger
(1994) [M]


Harrison Ford returns as intrepid CIA agent Jack Ryan in this critically acclaimed box-office smash from the producers of Patriot Games. When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment:...  More


 
Richard III (1955)

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Richard III (1955)
(1955) [G]


The deformed Richard of Gloucester cuts a bloody path to the throne in Shakespeare's historical tragedy. Determined to seize the French throne from his brother Edward IV, he rouses Edward's hatred from their brother Clarence, who is arrested and murdered while imprisoned. The cunning Richard woos...  More


 
American Psycho

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American Psycho
(2000) [R]


The movie American Psycho is based on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel of the same name. Director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) and screenwriter Guinevere Turner (Go Fish) turned this story into a script and movie, which made for an interesting team considering the book and author had...  More


 
To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill A Mockingbird
(1962) [PG]


Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel was the basis for this award-winning and heart-stirring drama. Young Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy, witnesses the racist bigotry of her small Alabama town when her idealistic lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of...  More


 
Time Regained

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Time Regained
(1999) [R]


Time Regained (aka Le Temps Retrouve) is a French language film starring the eternally graceful Catherine Deneuve. The film is based (loosely) on Marcel Proust's saga 'a la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance Of Things Past). While the film does not strictly follow the structure of Proust's...  More


 
Manon Des Sources   (Jean de Florette Part 2)

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Manon Des Sources (Jean de Florette Part 2)
(1986) [PG]


The equally extraordinary, highly successful and award-winning sequel to Jean de Florette based on the classic. The timless story continues when the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon, now grown up into a beautiful free-spirited shepherdess on her father's Provence farm. But when she finally...  More


 
A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange
(1971) [R]


Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it all at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the...  More


 
Treasure Island (1950)

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Treasure Island (1950)
(1950) [G]


Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard...  More


 
A Man For All Seasons

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A Man For All Seasons
(1966) [G]


The dazzling international cast featured in director Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons helps bring to life one of the most thrilling dramas of intrigue and courage ever filmed. Adapted from Robert Bolt's play, Robert Shaw plays the lusty King Henry VIII who wants to divorce his wife in order...  More


 
The Lord Of The Rings (Animated)

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The Lord Of The Rings (Animated)
(1978) [PG]


One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them, One Ring To Bring Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them. Only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasy trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped animated feature about a band of travelers of different races who...  More


 
Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]


Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of...  More


 
The Tin Drum (2 Disc Set)

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The Tin Drum (2 Disc Set)
(1979) [M]


This powerful adaptation of the Gunter Grass epic novel won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1979 as well as Best Film at the Cannes festival the same year. The narrator of the film is little Oscar, a precocious child of a permissive petty bourgeois couple. He decides to stop growing on...  More


 
Death In Venice

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Death In Venice
(1971) [PG]


One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.  More


 
The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)

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The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]


From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit...  More


 
Cousin Bette

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Cousin Bette
(1998) [M]


COUSIN BETTE, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac, stars Jessica Lange in a delicious performance. Elisabeth Fisher (Jessica Lange), known to her relatives as Bette, is a humble seamstress in a burlesque theatre in Paris. She has always been taken for granted by her rich relations, and has...  More


 
Primary Colors

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Primary Colors
(1998) [M]


Masterfully adapted by director Mike Nichols and his former-comedy-partner-turned-screenwriter, Elaine May, Primary Colors plays like a sophisticated comedy with loads of memorable scenes and dialogue, but it sneaks up on you with devastating dramatic impact. Anchored by Travolta's superb...  More


 
 
 

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