Literary Adaptation Movies

  • 1967
    Stroller

    Stroller

    Stroller

    01967HD

    An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional...

    Stroller
  • 1933
    Little Women

    Little Women

    Little Women

    6.7641933HD

    Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences...

    Little Women
  • 1962
    Mama, I Need You!

    Mama, I Need You!

    Mama, I Need You!

    01962HD

    After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

    Mama, I Need You!
  • 1969
    Spring, Spring

    Spring, Spring

    Spring, Spring

    01969HD

    Chun-sam is working as a servant at Bong-pil's home to be his future son in-law. His daughter, Jeom-sun has grown enough to get wed. But her father...

    Spring, Spring
  • 1959
    Human Relationships

    Human Relationships

    Human Relationships

    01959HD

    Lee Sun-fung is renowned for adapting literary classics for the silver screen. To commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Union Film Enterprise...

    Human Relationships
  • 2018
    The Binocle

    The Binocle

    The Binocle

    02018HD

    A short film based on the short story "De Binocle" by Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It tells the story of a nervous man who on one evening while going...

    The Binocle
  • 1984
    Ordeal by Innocence

    Ordeal by Innocence

    Ordeal by Innocence

    4.91984HD

    Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed...

    Ordeal by Innocence
  • 2013
    The Four 2

    The Four 2

    The Four 2

    6.8212013HD

    The four constables Emotionless, Iron Hands , Life Snatcher and ColdBlood are specially skilled in their own individual super powers. When the four...

    The Four 2
  • 1967
    The Top of Mount Fuji

    The Top of Mount Fuji

    The Top of Mount Fuji

    01967HD

    A touching drama based on the novel of the same name by Eikichi Hashimoto. In the 23rd year of the Meiji period, weather forecasts were rarely...

    The Top of Mount Fuji
  • 1938
    Paweł & Gaweł

    Paweł & Gaweł

    Paweł & Gaweł

    7.4441938HD

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

    Paweł & Gaweł
  • 1936
    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    01936HD

    The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
  • 1908
    Trilby

    Trilby

    Trilby

    01908HD

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

    Trilby
  • 1961
    Sanctuary

    Sanctuary

    Sanctuary

    5.11961HD

    In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child....

    Sanctuary
  • 1958
    Prince of Thieves

    Prince of Thieves

    Prince of Thieves

    01958HD

    Middle Eastern folktale collection One Thousand and One Nights has been greatly treasured by Western storytellers who are fascinated by the fantastic...

    Prince of Thieves
  • 2017
    Lincoln in the Bardo

    Lincoln in the Bardo

    Lincoln in the Bardo

    02017HD

    In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief...

    Lincoln in the Bardo
  • 1959
    The Natural Son

    The Natural Son

    The Natural Son

    01959HD

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

    The Natural Son
  • 1955
    The Inspector General

    The Inspector General

    The Inspector General

    01955HD

    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...

    The Inspector General
  • 1947
    New Arabian Nights

    New Arabian Nights

    New Arabian Nights

    01947HD

    Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package...

    New Arabian Nights
  • 1989
    The Dream

    The Dream

    The Dream

    8.71989HD

    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...

    The Dream
  • 1982
    The Pedlar

    The Pedlar

    The Pedlar

    01982HD

    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...

    The Pedlar