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'Adaptation' is a general type that can be applied to any work that was adapted from another work (usually, but not necessarily, in a different artistic medium). For example, a movie that was based on a novel, or an opera that was based on a play.
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| x Enemy Mine |
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Enemy Mine |
Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B. Longyear. It was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. The original music score is...
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| x The Time Machine |
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The Time Machine |
The Time Machine (also known as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 science fiction film based on H. G. Wells's 1895 novel of the same name about a man from Victorian England who constructs a time travelling machine and uses it to travel to the...
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| x The Time Machine |
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The Time Machine |
The Time Machine is a 2002 science fiction film adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, and the 1960 film screenplay by David Duncan. It was executive-produced by Arnold Leibovit and directed by Simon Wells, who is the great...
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| x The Island of Dr. Moreau |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau |
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) is the second movie version of the H. G. Wells science fiction novel about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart....
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| x The Island of Dr. Moreau |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau |
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 film, the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, a science fiction horror story about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people. The film stars Marlon Brando,...
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| x The War of the Worlds |
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The War of the Worlds |
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network....
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| x The War of the Worlds |
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| x H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds |
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The War of the Worlds |
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of three film adaptations of H. G. Wells' classic novel released in 2005. This version was produced by the independent film production company Pendragon Pictures and unlike the other film adaptations which...
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| x The War of the Worlds | The War of the Worlds |
The War of the Worlds is an arcade game based on the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. There were two versions of this game, identical in gameplay but differing in graphics. The first version was released by Cinematronics in 1979, and...
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| x War of the Worlds |
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The War of the Worlds |
War of the Worlds is a 2005 live action science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It stars Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier, a dock worker estranged...
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| x H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds |
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The War of the Worlds |
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (also going by the title of Invasion and H.G. Wells' The Worlds in War ) is one of three film adaptations of The War of the Worlds novel released in 2005.
Much like Spielberg's version, it is a modernized adaptation,...
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| x Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
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The War of the Worlds |
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds stars Richard Burton as the narrator-protagonist, Justin...
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| x Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds |
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy game developed by Rage Software Limited and published by GT Interactive in 1998 for the PC.
It is based on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds — which is itself based on H....
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| x H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds | The War of the Worlds |
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a comic adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli. The same team earlier created the comic Scarlet Traces, and several characters from it can be seen in this series.
It has...
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| x The First Men in the Moon | The First Men in the Moon |
The First Men in the Moon is a black and white silent film from 1919, directed by Bruce Gordon and J.L.V. Leigh. The film is based on H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon. This, the 1919 version is the original film and...
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| x The Shining |
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The Shining |
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Though it had mixed reviews from the critics upon its release it was wildly popular with moviegoers and financially...
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| x The Shining |
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The Shining |
The Shining is a three part television miniseries chronicling the events and actions that transpire as a family watches over a large and imposing Colorado hotel during the building's closed off season.
Adapted by director Mick Garris under the...
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| x Misery |
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Misery |
Misery is a 1990 American suspense-thriller film from Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film received critical acclaim for Kathy Bates' performance as...
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| x Pet Sematary |
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Pet Sematary |
Pet Sematary (sometimes referred to as Stephen King's Pet Sematary) is a 1989 horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert, the film features Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed,...
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| x Stand by Me |
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The Body |
Stand by Me is a 1986 coming of age, adventure-drama film directed by Rob Reiner. The title comes from a song with the same title by Ben E. King (which plays during the closing credits), while the story itself is based on the novella The Body by...
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| x The Shawshank Redemption |
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption |
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, loosely based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film stars Tim Robbins as Andrew "Andy" Dufresne and Morgan Freeman...
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| x Apt Pupil |
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Apt Pupil |
Apt Pupil is a 1998 American drama film based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King. The film was directed by Bryan Singer and stars Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro...
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| x Carrie |
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Carrie |
Carrie is a 1976 American horror film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King. The film and the novel deal with a socially outcast teenage girl, Carrie White, who discovers she possesses...
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| x Mystic River |
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Mystic River |
Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian...
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| x Kiss Me, Kate |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Kiss Me, Kate was a comeback and a personal...
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| x 10 Things I Hate about You |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger and stars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz and Larry Miller. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The...
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| x Tower of London |
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Richard III |
Tower of London (1939) black-and-white historical film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Rowland V. Lee. It stars Basil Rathbone as the future Richard III of England, and Boris Karloff as his fictitious club-footed executioner Mord....
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| x Romeo Must Die |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Romeo Must Die is a 2000 martial arts film with a Romeo and Juliet theme, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. It stars Jet Li, Aaliyah, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Anthony Anderson, D.B. Woodside, and DMX, and features action and...
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| x Tromeo & Juliet |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by James Gunn, who also wrote the film's screenplay...
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| x Romie-0 and Julie-8 |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Romie-0 and Julie-8 is the third animated television special made by Nelvana Limited, inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in the future, the two romantic leads in this version are androids who fall in love despite a taboo against...
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| x West Side Story |
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West Side Story |
West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard...
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| x Omkara |
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Othello |
Omkara (Hindi: ओमकारा, Urdu: امکارا) is a 2006 Hindi film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. It starred Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor in lead roles, supported by Vivek Oberoi, Naseeruddin Shah and...
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| x A Double Life |
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Othello |
A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso. It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon...
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| x Maqbool |
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Macbeth |
Maqbool (Hindi: मक़बूल, Urdu: مقبُول), a 2004 Indian film directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and starring Pankaj Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tabu and Masumeh Makhija is an adaptation of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.
The film had its North American premiere at...
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| x Men of Respect |
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Macbeth |
Men of Respect is a 1990 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth starring John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his own boss. Directed by William C. Reilly, this is actually not the...
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| x King of Texas | King Lear |
King of Texas is a 2002 made-for-TV film directed by Uli Edel and starring Patrick Stewart.
The film takes the plot of William Shakespeare's King Lear and places it in the Republic of Texas during the 19th century. Stewart stars as John Lear, a...
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| x Ran |
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King Lear |
Ran (乱, "chaos" or "revolt") is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to...
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| x Julius Caesar |
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Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar is a 1970 independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival. The film stars Charlton Heston (as Mark Antony) and Jason Robards (as Brutus, along with John Gielgud ...
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| x Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar (1950) is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar. It was produced and directed by David Bradley using actors from the Chicago area. Charlton Heston, who had known Bradley since his youth, and who was establishing...
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Julius Caesar |
Two films have been made of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar:
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| x Fever Pitch |
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Fever Pitch |
Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book...
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| x Kathleen Mavourneen | Kathleen Mavourneen |
Fox Studio pulled the movie from theaters due to protests by religious groups.
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| x Mysterious Island |
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The Mysterious Island |
Mysterious Island (UK: Jules Verne's Mysterious Island) is a film released in 1961 by Morningside Productions. Based very loosely upon the novel The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne, it was produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray...
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| x Mysterious Island | The Mysterious Island |
Mysterious Island, or Tainstvennyy ostrov in Russian, is a USSR film adaptation of the 1874 novel by Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse). The story is a follow-up to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
During the siege of...
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The Europeans |
The Europeans is a 1979 Merchant Ivory Film, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and with an adapted screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel, The Europeans, by Henry James. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes...
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| x Ramona | Ramona |
Ramona is the title of several motion pictures based on the novel Ramona (1884) by Helen Hunt Jackson:
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| x Ramona | Ramona |
The first version of Ramona to have sound and also the first to have color.
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| x Hedda | Hedda Gabler |
Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart and was directed by Trevor Nunn.
This was the first (and so far the only) major theatrical film version of the play in English....
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McTeague |
Greed (1924) is a dramatic silent film. One of the most famous lost films in cinema history it is also considered one of the greatest films ever. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale...
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| x Deliver Us from Eva |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
Deliver Us from Eva is a 2003 feature film starring LL Cool J and Gabrielle Union, revolving around LL's character Ray being paid to date a troublesome young lady named Eva (Union). To some extent, it is a modern, urban update of William Shakespeare...
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| x The Quiet Man |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh. The film is notable...
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| x Atomic Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | ||
| x Taming of the Shrew | The Taming of the Shrew | ||
| x Taming of the Shrew | The Taming of the Shrew | ||
| x The Tamer Tamed |
The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1594).
The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the...
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Hamlet |
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of...
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Hamlet |
Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet. It is set in the 19th century, and uses Blenheim Palace for exterior...
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