Literary Adaptation Movies
- 1959
The Natural Son
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Chor Yuen started his directorial career with a bang. From its very first image, The Natural Son establishes Chor as a filmmaker of stylistic...
- 1958
Red Maid, the Matchmaker
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Production company Taoyuan chose for its inaugural film a comedy and Fong Yim-fun gets to take a break from playing long-suffering roles and showcase...
- 1989
The Dream
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Starring Jeremy Irons in a one-man drama, adapted from a Dostoevsky short story by Murray Watts. In his dream, the Man visits an unspoilt Garden of...
- 2006
Rebecca
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The plot adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative...
- 2023
A Leaf of Winter
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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.
- 1959
Human Relationships
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Lee Sun-fung is renowned for adapting literary classics for the silver screen. To commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Union Film Enterprise...
- 1969
A Christmas Carol
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On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley.
- 2017
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
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- 1968
Winter Love
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Inside a café, on Christmas Eve. Chim Kei meets an enigmatic woman named Mimi Wong who introduces herself as the daughter of an upper-crust...
- 2022
Worst Laid Plans
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Three tales of vacation-themed horror adapted from the bestselling book by Grindhouse Press.
- 1958
A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams
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Songstress Mui Yee-wah falls head over heels for painter Wai Tik-fung despite their age difference. Because Wai is a married man, Mui's mother is...
- 2013
All This Can Happen
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A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of ordinary movements from the everyday which appear, evolve and freeze...
- 1954
Autumn
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Hak-ming heads the Ko Family, but he and his brothers, Hak-ting and Hak-on, and the second wife of the late Master Ko quarrel. Young Cousin Mui, who...
- 1923
The Bread Peddler
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The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and...
- 1970
We Spread
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Follows an aging artist who, after the death of her partner, is moved into a unique long-term care residence where she begins to distrust her...
- 1955
The Inspector General
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Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a satire play well-known around the world. In the period between the end of World War II and the 1960s, the...
- 2012
The Dark Sleep
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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...
- 1960
Wong An Vs. the Flying Tigers
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The Flying Dragon gang goes on a rampage and the police Inspector is at his wits' end. He then commissions Wong Ngung, Wu Ngar and Heung Nga to help...
- 1966
The Witty Bus Girl
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Industrialist Tam Kar-cheung knowingly puts the lives of his workers at risk so as to line his pocket with insurance payments. The chivalrous Bus...
- 1947
New Arabian Nights
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Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package...