100 Movies based on 100 Classic Great Books
by kiraalt | created - 17 Aug 2015 | updated - 20 Aug 2015 | PublicI decided to take Easton Press' list of 100 Great Books and find movies that were made of them. Here are the results. May be a work in progress. In no way am I saying that the movies were the best adaptation of the books, mind you. Always read the book first :-)
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1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
G | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre
Votes: 37,148 | Gross: $28.20M
2. The Scarlet Letter (1995)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Lisa Andoh
Votes: 16,288 | Gross: $10.40M
3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 15,803 | Gross: $2.79M
4. Walden (I) (2011)
78 min | Comedy, Horror
Henry David Thoreau purchases a house in Los Angeles to get away from distractions and write his memoirs and reflections. Little does he know that his house is actually a portal to hell. ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Trudgeon | Stars: Alan Michaud, Tony Baker, Rhiannon Hansen, Angelina Leaf
Votes: 19
So they turned it into a horror flick.
5. Gulliver's Travels (1996)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.
Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Robert Hardy
Votes: 7,152
6. Moby Dick (1956)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 21,872 | Gross: $10.40M
7. A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Approved | 152 min | Drama, Romance, War
An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
Directors: Charles Vidor, John Huston | Stars: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 2,914 | Gross: $11.00M
8. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano
Votes: 4,834
9. The Jungle Book (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba
Votes: 291,967 | Gross: $364.00M
10. The Odyssey (1997)
PG-13 | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Follows Odysseus on his wanderings back to Ithaca following the Trojan War.
Stars: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters
Votes: 16,095
11. Pilgrim's Progress (1978)
Not Rated | 72 min | Adventure
Journey with Pilgrim as John Bunyan's famous allegory leaps from its pages to a movie.
Director: Ken Anderson | Stars: Peter Thomas, Maurice O'Callaghan, Liam Neeson, Ronnie Irvine
Votes: 341
12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century. His search for knowledge and understanding, and the decline of his family's circumstances, ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud, Rosaleen Linehan
Votes: 231
13. Paradise Lost (1999)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths of his workers. An archaeologist, who's researching the jungle ruins of an extinct local tribe, might know more.
Director: Herb Freed | Stars: William Forsythe, Marina Sirtis, Nigel Havers, Miguel Ángel Suárez
Votes: 304
Only thing I could find - title only. Nothing made of the Milton Book
14. Arabian Nights (2000)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
To cure a Prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wondrous stories.
Stars: Mili Avital, Alan Bates, James Frain, Tchéky Karyo
Votes: 5,577
15. Great Expectations (2012)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Romance
A series of events change the orphaned Pip's life forever as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Toby Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins
Votes: 13,728 | Gross: $0.26M
16. Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960)
88 min | Comedy
The film is based on Voltaire story "Candide, or Optimism" (1759), transferred to the twentieth century, during the Second World War, about the love of Cunégonde and Candide.
Director: Norbert Carbonnaux | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon
Votes: 162
17. Oedipus Rex (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Drama
The land ruled by King Oedipus is plagued by ill-fortune and the people are promised relief by the gods if the slayer of the former king is apprehended and punished. This does not bode well... See full summary »
Directors: Tyrone Guthrie, Abraham Polonsky | Stars: Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, Robert Goodier, William Hutt
Votes: 344
18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 12,274 | Gross: $3.27M
19. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig
Votes: 187,545 | Gross: $75.51M
20. Sea Wolf (2009– )
180 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Tim Roth, Neve Campbell, Stephen Campbell Moore
Votes: 1,061
21. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
PG | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber
Votes: 25,939 | Gross: $15.14M
22. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
NC-17 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti
Votes: 8,225
The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan
Votes: 12,669 | Gross: $3.69M
25. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people with whom he interacts.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly
Votes: 606
26. Treasure Island (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate Captain Long John Silver.
Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee
Votes: 5,980
27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985)
TV-PG | 688 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.
Stars: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams, Eric Porter
Votes: 24,200
28. Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species (2009 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about Charles Darwin's struggle writing his theory of evolution
Star: Deborah Maclaren
Votes: 99
Origin of The Species
29. Man of La Mancha (1972)
PG | 132 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews
Votes: 4,734 | Gross: $3.79M
Don Quixote
30. Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
R | 99 min | Drama
The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.
Director: Dennis Lee | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss
Votes: 13,599 | Gross: $3.39M
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
31. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 383,773 | Gross: $101.07M
32. Animal Farm (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Animation, Drama
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.
Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas | Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Votes: 18,990
33. Wuthering Heights (1939)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 19,760 | Gross: $0.76M
34. She Stoops to Conquer (2008 TV Movie)
140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles Marlow and George Hastings set out for Liberty Hall, the home of the Hardcastles, whose daughter Kate Marlow being pressured into marrying. On their way, they meet Kate's brother Tony who decides to play a practical joke on them.
Director: Tony Britten | Stars: Tim Bell, Simon Butteriss, Judi Daykin, Mark Dexter
Votes: 48
35. Of Mice and Men (1992)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Western
A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.
Director: Gary Sinise | Stars: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko
Votes: 47,263 | Gross: $5.10M
36. Pride & Prejudice (2005)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Romance
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 330,474 | Gross: $38.41M
37. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,054
38. Les Misérables (2012)
PG-13 | 158 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Votes: 345,932 | Gross: $148.81M
39. Troy (2004)
R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover
Votes: 570,187 | Gross: $133.38M
The Iliad by Homer
40. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
After a injury leaves her husband paralysed, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Director: Just Jaeckin | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell
Votes: 3,339
41. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc
Votes: 148,384 | Gross: $54.23M
42. Brave New World (1998 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.
Directors: Leslie Libman, Larry Williams | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt
Votes: 2,147
43. Aesop's Fables (1971 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Aesop's Fables was a 1971 thirty-minute made for television fantasy movie starring Bill Cosby as Aesop, produced by Lorimar Productions.
Directors: Robert Chenault, Hal Sutherland | Stars: Bill Cosby, Keith Hamilton, Jere Fields, John Byner
Votes: 45
Yes, Cosby is in this. Sorry.
44. Lord Jim (1965)
Not Rated | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach
Votes: 4,262
45. Benjamin Franklin (2002)
210 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the renowned American polymath.
Stars: Richard Easton, Dylan Baker, Colm Feore, Sebastian Roché
Votes: 182
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
46. The Three Musketeers (1973)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York
Votes: 20,129 | Gross: $22.02M
47.
The Great Philosophers (1987)
Episode:
Aristotle
(1987)
45 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Bryan Magee, Martha Nussbaum
Votes: 8
Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle
48. Dido & Aeneas (1995)
56 min
Dido and Aeneas is a dance adaptation of Henry Purcell's 1689 eponymous opera, based on Virgil's famous tale of Aeneas' affair with Dido, the Queen of Carthage on his way to founding Rome.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Jennifer Lane, Russell Braun, Ann Monoyios, Shari Saunders
Votes: 32
The Aeneid by Virgil
49. Madame Bovary (2014)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Bored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.
Director: Sophie Barthes | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green
Votes: 8,857
50. Machiavelli's The Prince (2010)
30 min | Short, Action, Crime
After the death of his father, a man must learn how to maintain his power and enlists the aid of two very unique forces.
Director: Julio Ponce Palmieri | Stars: Kim Allan, Christian Bako, David Burfoot, Sean Carsley
Votes: 11
51. Jane Eyre (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot
Votes: 92,994 | Gross: $11.24M
52. Hamlet (1996)
PG-13 | 242 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet
Votes: 40,043 | Gross: $4.41M
53. Pygmalion (1983 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 109 min | Comedy
The standard My Fair Lady (1964) story, with a provocative rendition by Peter O'Toole. He knows how to talk, but does he know how to behave towards a lady?
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Shelagh McLeod, Nancy Kerr, Ron White
Votes: 187
54. Robinson Crusoe (1997)
PG-13 | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.
Directors: Rod Hardy, George Miller | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Polly Walker, Ian Hart
Votes: 13,212
55. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Romance
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 34,755 | Gross: $38.90M
56. The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Tushka Bergen, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 707 | Gross: $0.14M
57. Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
R | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice.
Directors: Victor Cook, Mike Disa, Sangjin Kim, Shûkô Murase, Jong-Sik Nam, Lee Seung-Gyu, Yasuomi Umetsu | Stars: Graham McTavish, Vanessa Branch, Steve Blum, Peter Jessop
Votes: 10,174
58.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Confucius: Words of Wisdom
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In an age of intrigue and vice, he was a voice of morality and virtue. 2,500 years after his death, he is revered as one of the great teachers in history. Confucius's name is synonymous ... See full summary »
Star: Hal Linden
Votes: 119
The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
59. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 26,958 | Gross: $16.07M
60. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 545,506 | Gross: $95.86M
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats, Dickinson, Keats, Browning
61. Dorian Gray (2009)
R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, John Hollingworth
Votes: 68,086
62. Vanity Fair (2004)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama
Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Votes: 23,500 | Gross: $16.14M
63. The Decameron (1971)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 12,074
64. Beowulf (2007)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright
Votes: 174,117 | Gross: $82.16M
65. Anna Karenina (I) (2012)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen
Votes: 106,493 | Gross: $12.82M
66. The Diamond Necklace (1921)
Drama
A cashier and his wife suffer ten years of poverty to replace a lost necklace before learning it was fake.
Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Milton Rosmer, Jessie Winter, Sara Sample, Warwick Ward
67. The Time Machine (1960)
G | 103 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot
Votes: 44,821
68. Fathers and Sons (1971– )
180 min
Adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel about two young men and their families in 19th century Russia.
Stars: James Laurenson, John Bennett, Anthony Bate, David Wood
69. Heart of Darkness (1993 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé, James Fox
Votes: 2,102
70. War and Peace (1956)
PG | 208 min | Drama, Romance, War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman
Votes: 10,860 | Gross: $12.50M
71. Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2008)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
The historical drama details the Roman military campaigns against the barbarians. It shows how continuous wars depleted resources, a key factor in the fall of the Empire.
Stars: Leif Anders, Sam Mercurio, Karl Otter, Andre de Nesnera
Votes: 857
The History of Early Rome by Livy
72. Little Women (1933)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 7,932 | Gross: $4.58M
73. The Talisman (1980–1981)
227 min | Adventure, Drama
Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, THE TALISMAN is a Crusades story of heroism, love and intrigue. Sir Kenneth, a bold Scottish knight, finds himself involved in political machinations... See full summary »
Stars: Damien Thomas, Joanne Pearce, Patrick Ryecart, Donald Burton
Votes: 26
74. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
A free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Milburn, John McEnery
Votes: 2,096
75. Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper
Votes: 2,610
76. Dracula (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye
Votes: 58,599
77. Omar Khayyam (1957)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Biography, Romance
During the 11th century, Persian poet Omar Khayyam's lover marries the Shah but the Shah, whose life is threatened by a sect of assassins, appoints Omar royal advisor.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek
Votes: 376
The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
78. The Red and the Black (1997 TV Movie)
200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Kim Rossi Stuart, Judith Godrèche, Claude Rich
Votes: 501
79. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen
Votes: 6,297
80.
The Great Philosophers (1987)
Episode:
Plato
(1987)
45 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Bryan Magee, Myles Burnyeat
Votes: 6
Plato's The Republic
81. Faust (2000)
R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man sells his soul to the devil to gain superpowers and avenge his girlfriend's brutal murder. When he realizes that the price is the soul of his new love interest, he turns on the devil.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Mark Frost, Isabel Brook, Jennifer Rope, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 4,507
82. Tom Jones (1963)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson
Votes: 14,248 | Gross: $37.60M
83. Founding Fathers (2000)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary, History
Witness the birth of the American republic.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, James Woods, Edward Herrmann, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 148
The Federalist Papers
84. Silas Marner (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Drama
When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, Freddie Jones
Votes: 701
85.
Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives (2014– )
Episode:
Rights of Man: Thomas Paine
(2014)
Documentary
Director: Christopher Walker | Star: Melvyn Bragg
86.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Walt Whitman
(2008)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy. His name graces shopping malls, highway rest stops, and local high schools.
Director: Mark Zwonitzer | Stars: Clayton Boyd, Saluda Camp, Chris Cooper, Vincent J. Earnshaw
Votes: 61
87. Billy Budd (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crew mates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Votes: 4,883
89. The Raven (1963)
G | 86 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court
Votes: 13,545
Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
90. Ivanhoe (1952)
Approved | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Votes: 10,220
91. The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, Muriel Angelus
Votes: 122
Don't think the film has anything to do with the book, but all I could find. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
92. The Sound and the Fury (2014)
TV-MA | 101 min | Drama
A look at the trials and tribulations of the Compson family, living in the Deep South during the early 20th century.
Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Loretta Devine
Votes: 1,253
93. Crime and Punishment (2002)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Crispin Glover, Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Margot Kidder
Votes: 876
94. The Brothers Grimm (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Petr Ratimec
Votes: 126,233 | Gross: $37.92M
95. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack
Votes: 1,593
96. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,671
97. David Copperfield (1999–2000)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Trevor Eve, Pauline Quirke, Laura Harling
Votes: 5,034
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