Movies: Literary adaptation

  • 2012
    Table for Two

    Table for Two (2012)

    Table for Two

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    Julia, a waitress without much going on in her life, accepts a job offer from Milo, a writer in crisis who needs an assistant to talk to. From these conversations on, she begins to perceive that love is where we least expect for....

    Table for Two
  • 1968
    Winter Love

    Winter Love (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 family. But the infatuated writer is struck by a spasm of sorrow when he later sees Mimi make her appearance a...

    Winter Love
  • 1954
    Autumn

    Autumn (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 has tuberculosis, is forced by to marry an older woman. Kok-sun is guilty of being unable to stop the...

    Autumn
  • 1960
    Wong An Vs. the Flying Tigers

    Wong An Vs. the Flying Tigers (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 him catch the gang members. Suet-ying, a young woman, is addicted to gambling and owes a huge sum to ...

    Wong An Vs. the Flying Tigers
  • 1961
    Holden

    Holden (1961)

    Holden

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    A rainy-night clash in a boarding-school dorm forces a swaggering teen to confront his insecurities and the price of rebellion....

    Holden
  • 1978
    Carmen

    Carmen (1978)

    Carmen

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    Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, b...

    Carmen
  • 1958
    The Tormented Beauty

    The Tormented Beauty (1958)

    The Tormented Beauty

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    Guerrilla member Ting Siu-yuen works as a playwright and Lee, the leader of an opera troupe. They conceal their identities in the troupe in order to gather military intelligence. Yuen gradually falls in love with the lead actress Mui Law-heung. Ting ...

    The Tormented Beauty
  • 2017
    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (2017)

    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

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    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
  • 2022
    Worst Laid Plans

    Worst Laid Plans (2022)

    Worst Laid Plans

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    Three tales of vacation-themed horror adapted from the bestselling book by Grindhouse Press....

    Worst Laid Plans
  • 1993
    Beck – De gesloten kamer

    Beck – De gesloten kamer (1993)

    Beck – De gesloten kamer

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    A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?...

    Beck – De gesloten kamer
  • 1936
    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2 (1936)

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

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    The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass...

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
  • 1959
    How Oriole the Heroine Solved the Case of the Three Dead Bodies

    How Oriole the Heroine Solved the Case of the Three Dead Bodies (1959)

    How Oriole the Heroine Solved the Case of the Three Dead Bodies

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    The three heroines, Wong Ang, Wu Nga, and Heung At expose a murder case involving three dead bodies found in an old temple. Unbeknown to the trio, they've fallen in a trap laid by gangster Hui Pui-shing, who desires to avenge his brother's death by e...

    How Oriole the Heroine Solved the Case of the Three Dead Bodies
  • 1958
    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams

    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams (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 against the match. Mui falls ill from grief. Rich heir Siu Kar-wai seizes the chance to successfully pro...

    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams
  • 1959
    The Chair

    The Chair (1959)

    The Chair

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    After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee-Wah, who working at a night club. As the family wealth diminishes, he always squabbles with his wif...

    The Chair
  • 1938
    Paweł & Gaweł

    Paweł & Gaweł (1938)

    Paweł & Gaweł

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    Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa....

    Paweł & Gaweł
  • 2015
    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes (2015)

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes

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    Traumatised by a painfull breakup, Joseph decides on stepping out of his house, and finding some sugar in order to remove bitterness from his life....

    Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes
  • 1956
    Beauty Raised from the Dead

    Beauty Raised from the Dead (1956)

    Beauty Raised from the Dead

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    Lau Mung-mui chances on To Lai-leung and their encounter transcends to a rendezvous in their dreams. They admire each other, but they do not know each other's names and addresses. They keep on thinking of each other and decide to take each other as t...

    Beauty Raised from the Dead
  • 1960
    The Wonderful Partner

    The Wonderful Partner (1960)

    The Wonderful Partner

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    Wong Chat is jobless. He is forced to become a burglar. He breaks into Han Siu-yu and her boyfriend Cheung Wai-lim's home, but it is just the time when they return. Wong hides in the closet. He eavesdrops that Han and Cheung are a couple, but Han is ...

    The Wonderful Partner
  • 1922
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations (1922)

    Great Expectations

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    A charitable childhood deed holds fateful consequences for poor Pip. An anonymous benefactor paves the way for Pip’s transformation and subsequent social ascent from peasant boy to gentleman. But he soon finds out that life among the upper-classes is...

    Great Expectations
  • 1982
    The Pedlar

    The Pedlar (1982)

    The Pedlar

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    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 travelling merchant, a man searches for a place to settle down, and someone to share his life....

    The Pedlar