Literary Adaptation Movies

Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.

Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.

Chor Yuen started his directorial career with a bang. From its very first image, The Natural Son establishes Chor as a filmmaker of stylistic...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

A man finds a whistle bearing a mysterious Latin inscription, which, when blown, awakens horrors beyond human understanding. A decade before the...

A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural...

'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan has abducted a group of virgin boys and girls for the nourishment of her mind and soul. Alarmed by the...

Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced...

Supernatural Drama about an addictive woman who is given a chance at redemption if she accepts Death's offer.

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

The little puppy Aston finds a lonely a cold stone in the forrest a decides to bring it home a care for it. Based on the childrens bokk with the same...

The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion:...

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...

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in...

First film adaptation of Maria by Jorge Isaacs, which is currently missing. Made in Mexico

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...

'...is unsuitable for any man's love.' (Xi Xi, A Woman Like Me) Sum-yin patches up wounds, masks scars and performs other beautician services that,...