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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest ...
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Salomé

Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the...

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  • Feb 15, 1923

Runtime:

  • 74 min (44 hs )

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An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband is a 1999 feature film based on the play by Oscar Wilde. The film stars Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver and Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. It was directed by Oliver Parker. It was selected as the...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 16, 1999

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Runtime:

  • 97 min (58 hs )

A Good Woman

A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. It is the third screen version of the work, following a 1925 Ernst Lubitsch silent film...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 15, 2004

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Salome's Last Dance

Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing...

Initial release date:

  • 1988

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Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

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The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost is a 1985 American fantasy-comedy film. It is one of many treatments based on the novella of Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost. The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle for centuries. After demonstrating...

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  • 56 min (34 hs )

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) is a British film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who also adapted the screenplay, and was produced by Teddy Baird. The film is largely faithful to Wilde's text,...

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  • 1952

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  • 95 min (57 hs )

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The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost is a 1944 fantasy/comedy film directed by Jules Dassin, loosely based on the short story of the same title by Oscar Wilde. It starred Charles Laughton as a ghost doomed to haunt an English castle. It was remade as a TV movie in...

Initial release date:

  • Jul 1944

Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

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Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy is a 1943 anthology film, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of...

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  • 94 min (56 hs )

Al Compás de tu Mentira

Al compás de tu mentira (English: To the Compass of Your Lie) is a 1950 black and white Argentine musical film directed by Héctor Canziani. The film adapted from the play The Importance of being Earnest written by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Abel...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 22, 1950

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  • 86 min (52 hs )

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An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was made by London Film Productions and distributed by British Lion Films (UK) and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (USA)....

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  • 96 min (58 hs )

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George...

Initial release date:

  • 1945

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Runtime:

  • 110 min (66 hs )

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