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1. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 260,244 | Gross: $34.19M
2. The Trial (1962)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Votes: 24,071
3. Mutant Action (1993)
93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Juan Viadas
Votes: 5,790
4. The Castle (1997 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, André Eisermann
Votes: 3,573
5. The Trial (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Joseph K. (Kyle MacLachlan) awakens one morning to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told with what he is charged, and despite being "... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson
Votes: 2,535
6. Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor (2007)
21 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Surreal events occur when a hapless country doctor visits an ill boy one cold night.
Director: Kôji Yamamura | Stars: Sensaku Shigeyama, Shigeru Shigeyama, Doji Shigeyama, Shime Shigeyama
Votes: 1,375
7. People in Places (2013)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
A number of different sketches with no correlation.
Director: Juan Cavestany | Stars: Raquel Guerrero, Jorge Cabrera, David Luque, Diego Martín
Votes: 1,024
8. The Castle (1994)
120 min | Drama
Mostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 940
9. Class Relations (1984)
126 min | Drama
After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti
Votes: 770
10. The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short
A traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature.
Director: Caroline Leaf
Votes: 367
11. Prevrashchenie (2002)
80 min | Drama
Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Director: Valeri Fokin | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Igor Kvasha, Tatyana Lavrova, Avangard Leontev
Votes: 365
12. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 294
13. The Castle (1968)
93 min | Drama, Mystery
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.
Director: Rudolf Noelte | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Cordula Trantow, Trudik Daniel, Friedrich Maurer
Votes: 282
14. Screen Two (1985–1998)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama
In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones
Votes: 247
15. Amerika (1994)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Olga Charvatova, Martin Dejdar, Radim Hladík Sr., Oldrich Kaiser
Votes: 235
16. Die Verwandlung (1975 TV Movie)
55 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect that causes problems to his (at one time) beloved ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Heinz Bennent, Zdenka Procházková, Edwige Pierre, Achim Strietzel
Votes: 168
17. Kafka's the Burrow (2014)
110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The story of a man in his prime who, having seemingly achieved everything, has entrenched himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to ignore it, there it is: the world outside.
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank | Stars: Kristina Klebe, Erwin Leder, Mirjam Novak, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 147
18. Metamorphosis (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.
Director: Chris Swanton | Stars: Eirik Bar, Janet Henfrey, Chloe Howman, Maureen Lipman
Votes: 108
19. K (2002)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy
Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. ... See full summary »
Director: Shoja Azari | Stars: Oz Phillips, Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat, Mohammad Ghaffari
Votes: 99
20.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
Metamorphosis
(1989)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe, Gary Olsen, Saskia Reeves
Votes: 98
21. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 92
22. Metamorfosis (2004)
20 min | Short
A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug.
Director: Fran Estévez | Stars: Nacho Castaño, Cristal Álvarez
Votes: 77
23. The Hunger Artist (2002)
16 min | Animation, Short
The story about the person which is busy with very extraordinary art form of starvation. The Hunger Artist wants that admired him and his art, but as a result doesn't gain recognition. In ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Gibbons | Stars: Jason R. Huston, Rip Reed
Votes: 75
24. Schakale und Araber (2011)
11 min | Short
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Giorgio Passerone, Barbara Ulrich, Jean-Marie Straub
Votes: 72
25. The Penal Colony (1970)
75 min | Drama
A journalist arrives on the Latin American island of Captiva, where a dictatorial President rules capriciously over a society that seems to consist mainly of males in military uniform, speaking a polyglot language.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Mónica Echeverría, Luis Alarcón, Aníbal Reyna, Nelson Villagra
Votes: 71
26. De grafbewaker (1965)
44 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
An nobleman asks out the aged grave guard, whose sickness seems to be due to the ghosts who haunt his workplace.
Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Josée Bernaus, Theo Op de Beeck, Jef Demedts, Werner Kopers
Votes: 69
27. Menschenkörper (2004)
17 min | Short
An adaptation of Kafka's "A Country's Doctor". Dr. Anton is called to a little boy for whom he must make out a death certificate. Happy to escape the patients in his practice, he is taken ... See full summary »
Director: Tobias Frühmorgen | Stars: Ingo Hülsmann, Christina Geiersberg, Adrian Ziegert, Wilhelmine Horschig
Votes: 67
28. K (II) (2015)
88 min | Drama
A stranger claiming to be a land surveyor arrives at a remote frontier village governed by a nearby castle and fights to gain the acceptance of the villagers.
Directors: Darhad Erdenibulag, Emyr ap Richard | Stars: Bayaneruul, Jula, Yirgui, Altanochir
Votes: 66
29. The Great Wall (III) (2016)
72 min | Documentary
'The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point'. So begins Kafka's short story 'At the Building of the Great Wall of China', and so, at Europe's heavily militarised ... See full summary »
Director: Tadhg O'Sullivan | Star: Nicolette Creighton
Votes: 60
30. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 58
31. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.
Stars: Robin Chadwick, Donald Sinden, Helen Lindsay, Paul Moriarty
Votes: 57
32. Artist of Fasting (2016)
104 min | Drama
Without saying any word, a man decide to get on hunger strike, creating a great mess around him and also media attention. An adaptation of one of the most famous Kafka's tales but nowadays in Japan.
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ukan Abeta, Shôichi Honda, Juri Ihata
Votes: 50
33. L'homme qui attendait (2006)
7 min | Animation, Short
Director: Theodore Ushev | Stars: Pierre Lebeau, Tony Robinow
Votes: 49
34. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
90 min | Drama
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason
Votes: 48
35. Linna (1986)
99 min | Drama, Mystery
Director: Jaakko Pakkasvirta | Stars: Carl-Kristian Rundman, Titta Karakorpi, Sari Mällinen, Anna-Leena Härkönen
Votes: 43
36. The Toledo Report (2009)
87 min | Documentary
A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo.
Director: Albino Alvarez | Stars: Dawn Ades, Germaine Gomez Haro, Francisco Toledo
Votes: 40
37. Metamorphosis (1976)
88 min | Fantasy
A young man wakes up one morning and discovers that he has been transformed into a beetle. Soon he becomes hated by all.
Director: Ivo Dvorák | Stars: Peter Schildt, Ernst Günther, Gunn Wållgren, Inga-Lill Carlsson
Votes: 37
38. La metamorfosis de Franz Kafka (1994)
30 min | Fantasy, Short
Free adaptation based on Kafka's "Metamorphose". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of G. Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.
Director: Carlos Atanes | Stars: Antonio Vladimir, Manel Solás, Arantxa Peña, José María Nunes
Votes: 37
39. The Country Doctor (1996)
15 min | Animation, Short, War
Director: Katariina Lillqvist
Votes: 34
40. Josephine the Singer and the Mice People (1994)
95 min | Drama, Music
Josephine lives in her non-existent, illusory world of theater, music and singing. She sincerely believes that singing is power, and thus she protects her people.
Director: Sergei Maslobojshchikov | Stars: Viktor Andrienko, Tonja Chyhyryk, Mikhail Dementev, Andrei Dementyev
Votes: 34
41. K (1954)
29 min | Short, Drama
A young man wakes up one morning and discovers he cannot move his body.
Director: Lorenza Mazzetti | Stars: Michael Andrews, Claude Rogers, Mary Rava, Hilary Morris
Votes: 31
42. In Our Synagogue (2019)
20 min | Short
A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him.
Director: Ivan Orlenko
Votes: 31
43. Siesta Z (2016– )
12 min | Animation
Siesta has a strange problem. Despite her best efforts, she always ends up falling unexpectedly asleep. Her dreams are wild interpretations of literary classics, mythological legends, along with the greatest stories of humanity.
Stars: Lucila Gómez, Facundo Reyes, Jason Kesser, Pablo Gandolfo
Votes: 29
44. Pratioci (2008)
16 min | Animation, Short
Director: Cejen Cernic | Stars: Damir Saban, Ursa Raukar, Luka Petrusic, Luka Juricic Rocco
Votes: 29
45. Das Schloß (1962 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Director: Sylvain Dhomme | Stars: Heinz Bennent, Ingmar Zeisberg, Gerda-Maria Jürgens, Paul Albert Krumm
Votes: 27
46. Metamorphosis (2015)
31 min | Short, Drama
This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis. Gregor is a young man working... See full summary »
Director: Igor Plischke | Stars: Golo Euler, Arno Frisch, Milena Dreißig, Lucie Aron
Votes: 26
47. A Metamorfose (2007)
27 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.
Director: Frederico Beja | Stars: Luís Veríssimo, Sandra Santos, Eloy Monteiro, Ana Maria Oliveira
Votes: 26
48. La métamorphose (1983 TV Movie)
50 min | Mystery
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Julien Guiomar, Anne Caudry, Pierre Étaix
Votes: 25
49. Folio (1955–1959)
Drama, Musical
Stars: Douglas Rain, Jack Creley, Lloyd Bochner, Frank Peddie
Votes: 22
50. Amerika oder der Verschollene (1969 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Sylvester Fell, Curt Bois, Werner Kreindl, Horst Niendorf
Votes: 21