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Great Literature on Film
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From The Terrace
(1960) [PG]
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love,... More
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Prospero's Books
(1991) [M]
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
The Tempest played out in dance and words; all the dialog is spoken by Sir John Gielgud... More
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
(1959) [G]
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods, The Diary Of Anne Frank features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive... More
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The Hobbit (1977)
(1977) [G]
A homebody demi-human in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novel. More
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The Return Of The King (1980)
(1980) [G]
This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas... More
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
(1959) [M]
A modern version of the eighteenth century story. Two lovers discuss a love game involving an innocent young girl and all three become the victims of their own obsession. Subtitled. Based on a novel by Choderlos De Laclos. More
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Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]
Peter Cushing is a spendid Holmes and Andre Morell is the perfect Dr. Watson in this adaptation of the Conan Doyle classic from Hammer Studios and co-starring Christopher Lee. A fiendish evil lurks beneath the mist-shrouded cliffs of the fabled moors. In the form of a hellish hound, it feeds upon... More
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The Russia House
(1990) [M]
Adapted by Tom Stoppard from John Le Carre's novel, director Fred Schepisi's The Russia House stars Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer as two people caught in a web of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya (Pfeiffer), a beautiful Russian book editor, attempts... More
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Mutiny On The Bounty
(1935) [G]
HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn...and into movie lore as an American Film Institute Top-100 American Films selection. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring... More
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The Great Gatsby
(1974) [PG]
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a story that could have only taken place in the Jazz Age - an era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and... More
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Quiet Days In Clichy
(1990) [R]
A writer and a photographer meet in Paris during the 1930s. Together, they spend their days at the Melody Club, a place of ill-repute, where both men become obsessed with a young girl called Colette. Based on the provocative works of author Henry Miller. More
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Doctor Faustus
(1967) [PG]
A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves. Faustus (Richard Burton) is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He... More
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The Rainbow
(1989) [M]
Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing... More
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Howard's End
(1992) [G]
From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and... More
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Salome's Last Dance
(1988) [M]
A Ken Russell film of Oscar Wilde's erotic story which combines all the decadence and sensuality of Wilde's own life. Set in a Victorian London brothel. More
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The Power Of One
(1992) [PG]
From the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky and The Karate Kid come a story as explosive as today's headlines. Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact), John Gielgud (Arthur) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) star in The Power Of One, a compelling, hard-hitting movie from hitmaker John G. Avildsen. Based on the... More
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The Pit And The Pendulum
(1961) [M]
In 16th-century Spain, Francis Bonnard (John Kerr) visits the gloomy castle of his late sister's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), in order to discern the reason for her death. It seems Nicholas is terrified that wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) is not really dead and that her spirit wanders the... More
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Patriot Games
(1992) [M]
Harrison Ford stars as Jack Ryan in this explosive thriller based on Tom Clancy's international best-seller. His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife (Anne Archer, Fatal Attraction) and child (Thora Birch, All I... More
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Little Women (1949)
(1949) [G]
Family is forever. Meet Jo, Beth, Amy and Meg. They're the March sisters, the Little Women of Mervyn LeRoy's Academy Award-winning Technicolor version of the cherished Louisa May Alcott novel. Set during the Civil War, it chronicles the Marches' lives and loves, underscoring the era's... More
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David Copperfield
(1935) [G]
"We are friends for life." The man speaking: Micawber, played by W.C. Fields with great comedic charm and human warmth. The child addressed: David, played by Freddie Bartholomew in his Hollywood debut. The movie: David Copperfield, still one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a Charles... More
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King Solomon's Mines
(1950) [PG]
Before there was an Indiana Jones, there was Allan Quartermain, the stalwart hero of H. Rider Haggard's classic 1885 novel that's been filmed four times. Stewart Granger portrays Quartermain in this 1950 adaptation that was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and won Oscars for Color... More
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Captain Blood
(1935) [PG]
It's hard to imagine a better film project for the yet-untried Errol Flynn to have made his starring debut than ''Captain Blood''. Based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, it is the story of an English surgeon wrongly condemned to prison. Flynn, playing Dr. Peter Blood, escapes and leads a revolt... More
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
(1939) [PG]
A remake of the 1923 Lon Chaney classic silent movie, this version of the Victor Hugo tragedy gained two Oscar nominations for its sound recording and musical score. Charles Laughton was at the peak of his box office draw when he donned the mountain of Quasimodo make-up, and gave probably the... More
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We Of The Never Never
(1982) [G]
This fine Australian drama is based on the memoirs of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback. It received six Australian Academy Award Nominations. More
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
(1939) [G]
An acclaimed Hollywood production of Emily Bronte's classic tale of passion, hatred and revenge. When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier), a ragamuffin orphan, he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. And from the start, Heathcliff falls... More
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The Ipcress File
(1965) [PG]
The tense spy thriller by Len Deighton that turned Michael Caine into a superstar. Cynical and rebellious ex-army sergeant Harry Palmer has been blackmailed into working for Britain's security service. Hot on the trail of a kidnapped scientist, Palmer finds himself enmeshed in a sinister... More
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Nosferatu (1979)
(1979) [PG]
In 1979, award-winning director Werner Herzog and his volatile star Klaus Kinski embarked on a milestone in international cinema: a dual-language remake of F.W. Murnau’s legendary 1922 horror classic NOSFERATU. The film starred Kinski in the performance of a lifetime as the predatory vampire... More
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The Brothers Karamazov
(1958) [PG]
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other... More
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