Literary Adaptation Movies

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular...

Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from...

Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's...

Three classics tales (The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Jack and the Beanstalk) are retold in condensed adaptations.

Following her recent divorce, a writer moves into a new home to begin penning her next book. Little does she know this house has some dark secrets. A...

Jonás and Raquel live in the field. Their life is happy and in harmony with the envoronment. One day, Néstor, Jonás's brother,...

Filmed entirely inside Civitavecchia prison, with the inmates themselves as protagonists and co-authors, Fortezza is the reinterpretation of one of...

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between...

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant...

Director Yigal Bursztyn’s made-for-TV road movie takes viewers on a contemporary journey in which he traces the gospel and teachings of Jewish...

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

We all carry our leaves, some of winter, some of spring and summer. But all leaves grow, breathe and wither with time; and so do we.

The Pedlar is a dramatic film based on the short story by W.D. Valgardson, A Place of One's Own. Tired of the rootless, lonely existence of a...

ALMAREIA is a dreamlike short film inspired by a chapter in Beneath the Waves of Freedom (Sob as Ondas da Liberdade). Set on a mysterious beach that...

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David...

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

Trilby parody with several key characters' names altered. Presumed lost.