Adaptations of Comics by Women
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1. Bécassine (1940)
93 min | Comedy
Director: Pierre Caron | Stars: Max Dearly, Paulette Dubost, Nita Raya, Alice Tissot
Votes: 23
Based on the character co-created by Jacqueline Rivière
2. Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)
Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Chapter 1 finds Daily Flash newspaper reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover the... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Ernie Adams, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 91
Based on the newspaper strip by Dale Messick
3. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A master thief and his sensual lover pull off heist after heist, all while an envious coalition of cops and gangsters is gunning for them.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 7,189
Based on the series by Angela and Luciana Giussani.
4. Tiffany Jones (1973)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Anouska Hempel, Ray Brooks, Susan Sheers, Damien Thomas
Votes: 319
Based on the comic strip by Pat Tourett and Jenny Butterworth.
5. Brenda Starr (1989)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves the strip.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 1,259 | Gross: $0.07M
Based on the newspaper strip by Dale Messick
6. Bécassine: Le Trésor viking (2001)
85 min | Animation, Family
Known and loved by generations of children, Pinchon's classic Bécassine is now a feature-length movie. A cross between Mary Poppins and Mr Bean, Bécassine is the nanny every child dreams of... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Vidal | Stars: Muriel Robin, Zabou Breitman, Philippe Gildas, Frédéric Mitterrand
Votes: 129
Based on the character co-created by Jacqueline Rivière
7. Monkeybone (2001)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan
Votes: 19,192 | Gross: $5.41M
Based on the graphic novel "Dark Town", illustrated by Vanessa Chong
8. The Plane (2005)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Charlie is waiting for his Christmas gift , a new bicycle. Instead his father gives him a small toy-aeroplane which he had constructed. After his death the plane reveals its magic powers.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Roméo Botzaris, Isabelle Carré, Vincent Lindon, Nicolas Briançon
Votes: 420
Based on the series "Charly" co-created by Magda Seron
9. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,136 | Gross: $4.45M
Based on the graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi
10. Tamara Drewe (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam
Votes: 22,649 | Gross: $0.56M
Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds
11. Chicken with Plums (2011)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani
Votes: 9,972 | Gross: $0.25M
Based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi
12. Aya of Yop City (2013)
84 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
Love stories in Yopougon, a neighborhood of the Ivory Coast capital.
Directors: Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie | Stars: Aïssa Maïga, Tella Kpomahou, Tatiana Rojo, Jacky Ido
Votes: 387
Based on the graphic novel series written by Marguerite Abouet
13. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 163,017 | Gross: $2.20M
Based on the graphic novel by Julie Maroh
14. Joséphine (2013)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Obadia | Stars: Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Bérengère Krief, Amelle Chahbi
Votes: 1,535
Based on the graphic novel by Pénélope Bagieu
15. Joséphine, Pregnant & Fabulous (2016)
94 min | Comedy
Joséphine and Gilles are totally in love. Everything is perfect. Until she discovers that she's pregnant! Now Joséphine will need to handle with the sudden desires, sex during the pregnancy, ginecologist and much more.
Director: Marilou Berry | Stars: Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Medi Sadoun, Sarah Suco
Votes: 783
Based on the graphic novel by Pénélope Bagieu
16. We Are the Best! (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Music
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark
Votes: 11,321 | Gross: $0.18M
Based on the graphic novel by Coco Moodysson
17. Gemma Bovery (2014)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier
Votes: 6,869 | Gross: $0.19M
Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds
18. Moomins on the Riviera (2014)
G | 80 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Moomins set sail for the Riviera, where, after a journey fraught with storms and desert island dangers, Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of a playboy and Moomin learns that jealousy's sting is the most painful of all.
Directors: Xavier Picard, Hanna Hemilä | Stars: Maria Sid, Russell Tovey, Mats Långbacka, Tracy-Ann Oberman
Votes: 1,487
The first Moomin movie based on a story that originated in the comic strip by Tove Jansson instead of the novels.
19. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni
Votes: 33,546 | Gross: $1.48M
Based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner
20. Rosalie Blum (2015)
95 min | Comedy
A warm, witty and impeccably performed comedy about a random encounter. A hairdresser meets a mysterious and lonely woman and becomes obsessed with learning all about her past.
Director: Julien Rappeneau | Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz, Anémone
Votes: 1,347
Based on the graphic novel series by Camille Jourdy
21. Dolores (2016 TV Movie)
89 min | Thriller
West Germany in the 1950s: A scale model artist is hired to build the perfect copy of a film star's villa - but soon realizes that through his model, he has the ability to control the events in the real villa.
Director: Michael Rösel | Stars: Hede Beck, Vilmar Bieri, Antonio Di Mauro, Mathias Herrmann
Votes: 128
Based on the graphic novel co-created by Anne Baltus
22. Bécassine! (2018)
102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Bécassine, a naive and clumsy farm girl, is hired as a nanny in a bourgeois family.
Director: Bruno Podalydès | Stars: Emeline Bayart, Karin Viard, Maya Compagnie, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 356
Based on the character co-created by Jacqueline Rivière
23. The Kitchen (2019)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.
Director: Andrea Berloff | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 22,960 | Gross: $12.05M
Based on the series co-created by Ming Doyle
24. Anya's Ghost
Comedy | Pre-production
Based on the graphic novel by Vera Brosgol.
Director: Dan Mazer
Based on the graphic novel by Vera Brosgol
25. Beasts of Burden (I)
Animation | Announced
when a series of supernatural events occur in the community of Burden Hill, a pack of dogs team up with a cat in order to keep their owners and other residents safe.
Director: Shane Acker
Based on the series co-created by Sarah Dyer and Jill Thompson
26. Boilerplate
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
The story of a fictional late 19th Century robot utilized by such history-makers as Terry Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia.
Based on the comics co-created by Anina Bennett
27. Elfquest
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Follows Cutter and the Wolfriders' quest to find the Palace of the High Ones and discover the origin to their existence.
Based on the series co-created by Wendy Pini
28. Hacktivist (TV Movie)
Drama | Announced
A pair of young Internet entrepreneurs are recruited to work for the CIA. Based on Alyssa Milano's 2014 graphic novel 'Hacktivist'.
Based on the graphic novel co-created by Alyssa Milano
29. Heathen
Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
Centers on Aydis, a young female viking, a warrior, an outcast, and a self-proclaimed "heathen". Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, she is on a mission to end the oppressive reign of the god-king Odin.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Based on the series created by Natasha Alterici
30. Lumberjanes
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Five young female friends battle supernatural forces at summer camp.
Based on the series co-created by Grace Ellis and Noelle Stevenson
31. O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce (TV Movie)
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
A New York City detective is recruited for a covert squad that uses sorcery to track down and kill evil spirits. Based on Rosario Dawson's comic book series, "O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce".
Star: Rosario Dawson
Based on the mini-series co-created by Rosario Dawson
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