Quand la caméra, plutôt que d'être un stylo, est un couteau de boucher
by jgcorrea | created - 21 Nov 2018 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicBooks are most usually better than their relevant, derivative movies. Books let you imagine the settings and the events happening in the stories. They are also more detailed than movies because movies sometimes must leave out some important details. Movies tend to last about two hours, while book readng takes time and lasts longer. There are cases in which it would really be impossible for Hollywood to work miracles. For example, Tennessee Williams was a great writer @Streetcar Named Desire, but he wrote a number of bad books that no director, however good, could possibly rescue.
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1. La vie privée (2006)
75 min | Drama
Director: Zina Modiano | Stars: Ouassini Embarek, Marie Modiano, Claire Nadeau, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 22
Henry James' notebook entry describes the title story of this collection as " a rank fantasy". This should have been a very funny fantasy, satirizing celebrities of all sorts. The Wheel of Time is a more serious book.This, however, is impossible to abridge as a synopsis: various folk congregate at a well-appointed country house – somewhere between an artistic salon, a writers' retreat, and a gathering of pals. Mildly surreal shenanigans ensue, a bit Bunuel, a bit Rivette; one of the more unusual, weird and ultimately original literary adaptations.
2. 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: 12,662 | Gross: $3.69M
I agree with the user who describes this travesty as ¨a hodgepodge of bits and pieces, wrong approaches, anachronisms and undeveloped narrative plot lines, which converge to make a most unsatisfactory adaptation and a completely twisted view of the heroine, Isabel Archer.¨
3. The Californians (2005)
PG | 87 min | Drama
Caught between Olive's righteousness and Gavin's affection, the idealistic and innocent Zoe must choose between a cause she's grown up supporting, or the affections of a man who stands for everything she believes is wrong.
Director: Jonathan Parker | Stars: Noah Wyle, Illeana Douglas, Kate Mara, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 450
"The Californians" is director Jonathan Parker's attempt to update Henry James' "The Bostonians" as a socially relevant romantic comedy. Leaden, obvious, somnambulant & unfunny.
4. Slave of Desire (1923)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: George Walsh, Bessie Love, Carmel Myers, Wally Van
Votes: 15
Balzac never for a second imagined when he wrote "La Peau de Chagrin," that it would be presented years afterward in film form under the title of "Slave of Desire." It may be that the producers realizing the liberties they have taken with the author's story, decided to call it by a new name, the English one being, "The Wild Ass's Skin."
5. Butcher Boys (2012)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A birthday celebration at a fancy restaurant leads to some friends' encounter with flesh-peddling cannibals.
Directors: Duane Graves, Justin Meeks | Stars: Ali Faulkner, Johnny Walter, Derek Lee Nixon, Tory Taranova
Votes: 1,658
Supposedly inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world. No further comments.
6. A Cartomante (2004)
90 min | Drama
Rita is about to marry a wealthy physician, Dr. Augusto Vilela. One night, Vilela's best friend, Camilo, is brought to the hospital, dying from an overdose. Vilela saves his life and ... See full summary »
Directors: Wagner de Assis, Pablo Uranga | Stars: Deborah Secco, Luigi Baricelli, Ilya São Paulo, Sílvia Pfeifer
Votes: 181
7. Dom (2003)
91 min | Drama
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. He begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's.
Director: Moacyr Góes | Stars: Marcos Palmeira, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Bruno Garcia, Luciana Braga
Votes: 299
This one made Machado de Assis roll in his grave. Horrible dialogue and corny acting.
8. A Very Crazy Asylum (1970)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, Arduíno Colassanti, Irene Stefânia
Votes: 150
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065430/reviews?ref_=tttr_ql_op_3
9. 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: 1,250
I agree with critic Matt Hoffman: ¨One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director. In this case, the fault of the film’s issues stem completely from James Franco and not at all with the difficulty in Faulkner’s writing. Hopefully, after two failed outings, the actor will learn to leave Faulkner’s masterful work alone. Although knowing him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him try his hand at adapting one of the author’s works again.¨
10. As I Lay Dying (2013)
R | 110 min | Drama
Based on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Ahna O'Reilly
Votes: 4,193 | Gross: $0.02M
James Franco's vanity did not do anything to enhance the cinematic experience. Also, and anyway, as far as filmmaking is concerned, I nearly always demand the use of a tripod, a crane or maybe some rails. Camera movements without a steadicam make me kinda sick.
11. 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: 2,101
A literary massacre jgcorrea (1 March 2023) Why do movies usually change things from the original book? Some changes are made because they would supposedly make for better film storytelling, id est something that might work as plot exposition in the book wouldn't work as well if filmed that same way. Well, it ain't the case in here. The present changes created new conflicts for the characters, which weren't there in Conrad's novella. When you read a book, you can interpret the plot and the story to your personal liking and cutural formation. Rather than movies, books allow your mind to be more creative. Furthermore, they are much more detailed.
12. Bloom (I) (2003)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Director: Sean Walsh | Stars: Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor, Neilí Conroy
Votes: 402
I agree with critic Rachel Cameron: ¨Sean Walsh's film remains a mostly dull and uninventive affair. Workaday cinematography and sets devoid of atmosphere don't help, but it's the reliance on voiceovers that really starts to bore: Joyce's famous stream-of-consciousness is reduced to actors wandering about matching thoughtful looks to dense dialogue drawn straight from the page.¨
13. Éducation sentimentale (1962)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre Astruc | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Marie-José Nat, Dawn Addams, Pierre Dudan
Votes: 165
Stick to the Bovary versions available, as far as Flaubertiana is concerned. Astruc was a fine ¨auteur¨ but he stumbled badly here and modernized a literary masterpiece by simplifying it grossly.
14. Cabaret Mineiro (1980)
75 min | Drama, Musical
Adventurer travels by train through the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, meeting old and new lovers and remembers love-affairs of his youth.
Director: Carlos Alberto Prates Correia | Stars: Nelson Dantas, Tamara Taxman, Tânia Alves, Helber Rangel
Votes: 118
from Guimaraes Rosa's Soroco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha
15. The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Tom Jones, a maid's son adopted by the nobleman she worked for, now all grown up must run away from home when he is set up by his jealous cousin. He has several adventures and women on his way to town where his possible salvation awaits.
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe
Votes: 174
16. Joseph Andrews (1977)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lady Booby alias "Belle" (Ann-Margret), the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews (Peter... See full summary »
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid
Votes: 681 | Gross: $0.84M
Henry Fielding was neither Voltaire nor Benny Hill. As his kind of irony was completely different, the notes here sound false.
17. Toute révolution est un coup de dés (1982)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A group of actors declaim excerpts from Mallarmé's 'A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance' in the cemetery where the martyrs of the Paris Commune were shot in 1871.
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Stars: Helmut Färber, Michel Delahaye, Georges Goldfayn, Manfred Blank
Votes: 132
Rather a tasteless joke
18. Curse of the Stone Hand (1965)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror
Compilation of two Chilean titles, the first adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," the second the tale of younger siblings dominated by their evil elder brother.
Directors: Carlos Hugo Christensen, Jerry Warren, Carlos Schlieper | Stars: Ernesto Vilches, John Carradine, Chela Bon, Carlos Cores
Votes: 176
from Stevenson's ¨Suicide Club¨
19. Iron Maze (1991)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroaki Yoshida | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, J.T. Walsh
Votes: 756
from Akutagawa's In a Grove
20. Strike It Rich (1990)
PG | 87 min | Comedy
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
Director: James Scott | Stars: Robert Lindsay, Molly Ringwald, Marianne Price, Jeffrey Robert
Votes: 201 | Gross: $0.54M
from Graham Greene's Loser Takes All
21. Double Take (2001)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.
Director: George Gallo | Stars: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Gary Grubbs, Daniel Roebuck
Votes: 8,748 | Gross: $0.02M
from Graham Greene's Across the Bridge
22. Meu Destino é Pecar (1952)
76 min | Drama
Director: Manuel Peluffo | Stars: Ayres Campos, Maria de Lourdes Lebert, José Gomes, Henricão
Votes: 31
from Nelson Rodrigues' lesser trash
23. Otto Lara Rezende ou... Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária (1963)
101 min | Drama
Millionaire Heitor Wernek asks his son in law Peixoto to look amidst his employees someone that could marry his youngest daughter Maria Cecília, who had her honour disgraced after she was raped by three men.
Director: Billy Davis | Stars: Jece Valadão, Odete Lara, Lia Rossi, Fregolente
Votes: 83
Pure garbage. The original play wasn't that good, though.
24. The Seven Kittens (1980)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four elder daughters. The fifth and youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back ... See full summary »
Director: Neville de Almeida | Stars: Antônio Fagundes, Ana Maria Magalhães, Lima Duarte, Ary Fontoura
Votes: 533
How not to transplant a stage play into the silver screen
25. Oliver Twist (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Dickie Moore, Irving Pichel, William 'Stage' Boyd, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 402
Oldie but NOT goodie
26. Poniro thilyko... katergara gynaika! (1980)
102 min | Romance, Comedy
Stuck in an unhappy marriage, a famous theatre star summons up the courage to seek happiness and love anew, in the shape of a young lawyer. But, is it love at first sight? Will her decision lead to an ignominious end in the show business?
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Angelos Antonopoulos, Haritini Karolou, Danis Katranidis
Votes: 265
from SOmerset Maugham's play ¨Theatre¨ (Adorable Julia)
27. Strictly Unconventional (1930)
Passed | 55 min | Drama
A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrell Davis, Lewis Stone
Votes: 142
from S. Maugham's play The Circle. Frank Borzage directed a rather superior version
28. Don Juan (1998)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Weber | Stars: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz
Votes: 519
from Molière
29. Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite (1997 TV Movie)
77 min | Comedy
Tartuffe, an impostor and seducer, is terrorizing a family.
Director: Sven Strömerstén Holm | Stars: Peter Haber, Robert Gustafsson, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Meta Velander
Votes: 53
30. Dandin György, avagy a megcsúfolt férj (1955)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Zoltán Várkonyi | Stars: Sándor Pécsi, Ági Mészáros, Tivadar Uray, Mária Sulyok
Votes: 19
Molière's Georges Dandin
31. The Millionairess (1960)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica
Votes: 2,003
from Bernard Shaw
32. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
Director: Gabriel Pascal | Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Votes: 3,130
33. Nana (1983)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Katya Berger, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yehuda Efroni, Mandy Rice-Davies
Votes: 712
34. After the Storm (2001 TV Movie)
R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller, Action
When a luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm the race is on to salvage the bounty at any cost, causing two couples to commit the ultimate betrayal.
Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Mili Avital, Barbara Andres, Steven Petrarca
Votes: 658
from Hemingway
35. The Garden of Eden (2008)
R | 111 min | Drama, Thriller
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino, Carmen Maura
Votes: 1,196 | Gross: $0.02M
36. The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009)
134 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The ... See full summary »
Director: Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | Stars: Mikhail Boyarskiy, Danila Dunaev, Alisa Freyndlikh, Lyanka Gryu
Votes: 700
from Vingt Ans Après
37. The Three Musketeers (1993)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
France, 1625: Young d'Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them - save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt
Votes: 59,280 | Gross: $53.90M
38. Young Lady Chatterley II (1985)
R | 86 min | Drama
Cynthia, new lady of Chatterly, feels neglected by her husband. During his absences she tries to amuse herself with gardener Thomas, but always gets interrupted by new visitors. While she's... See full summary »
Director: Alan Roberts | Stars: Harlee McBride, Ed Quinlan, Adam West, Brett Baxter Clark
Votes: 1,228
39. Antigone/Rites of Passion (1990)
85 min | Drama
Director: Amy Greenfield | Stars: Bertram Ross, Janet Eilber, Amy Greenfield, Sean McElroy
Votes: 57
from Sophocles
40. Hercules Unchained (1959)
G | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy
While negotiating peace between two brothers contesting the throne of Thebes, an amnesiac Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Omphale.
Directors: Pietro Francisci, Mario Bava | Stars: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Antonini, Patrizia Della Rovere
Votes: 2,322 | Gross: $5.45M
from Sophocles ... (story based on: play "Oedipus at Colonus") & Aeschylus ... (story based on: play "The Seven Against Thebes")
41. Oedipus Rex (1984 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Hans Hulscher | Stars: Neil Rosenshein, Felicity Palmer, Claudio Desderi, Anton Scharinger
Votes: 20
42. The Women of Troy (2006 Video)
88 min | Drama
After the fall of Troy to the Greek invading army, the Trojan women weep over their lost city, families, and honor, as they are taken away as Greek slaves.
Director: Phil Hawkins | Stars: Mairi Hayes, Wunmi Mosaku, David Onokopono, Jemma Dipnall
Votes: 21
from Euripides
43. Troy: Fall of a City (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Retells the story of the 10 year siege of Troy, which occurred in the 12 or 13th century BC.
Stars: Louis Hunter, Christiaan Schoombie, Bella Dayne, Chloe Pirrie
Votes: 15,433
from Homer
44. 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
45. 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
from Kafka's The Burrow
46. Schakale und Araber (2011)
11 min | Short
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Giorgio Passerone, Barbara Ulrich, Jean-Marie Straub
Votes: 72
Kafka's Jackals and Arabs
47. La ciudad maldita (1978)
91 min | Crime, Mystery, Western
A murder-mystery set in the old wild-west. A wandering gunman/lawman comes to a town in the old west where lawlessness and crime roam.
Director: Juan Bosch | Stars: Chet Bakon, Diana Lorys, Roberto Camardiel, Daniel Martín
Votes: 54
Hammett's Red Harvest
48. Bande (1986)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on the novel by D. Hemmet "Glass Key". On the eve of the senate elections, the head of the large trust Paul Medvig, the leader of the city mafia, is doing everything to re-elect his ... See full summary »
Director: Arvo Kruusement | Stars: Tõnu Kark, Aarne Üksküla, Rein Malmsten, Olev Eskola
Votes: 31
from Hammett's The Glass Key
49. A Woman of No Importance (1936)
81 min | Comedy
Oscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Käthe Dorsch, Friedrich Kayßler, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 26
from Wilde's A Woman of No Importance
50. Pact with the Devil (2003)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A modern retelling of the Oscar Wilde novel.
Director: Allan A. Goldstein | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Ethan Erickson, Victoria Sanchez, Ron Lea
Votes: 792
Wilde's D. Gray
51. The Canterville Ghost (2016)
90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped ... See full summary »
Director: Yann Samuell | Stars: Audrey Fleurot, Michaël Youn, Michèle Laroque, Lionnel Astier
Votes: 358
52. Gespenster (2007 TV Movie)
140 min | Drama
Director: Andreas Morell | Stars: Udo Samel, Friederike Kammer, Daniel Christensen, Ruth Marie Kröger
Votes: 15
from Ibsen's Ghosts
53. An Enemy of the People (1937)
102 min | Drama
Dr. Stockmann discovers that the mineral spring in the spa is polluted by toxic waste. But the affair is hushed because the thriving economy of the resort is in danger. To silence him Stockmann is declared an enemy of the people.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heinrich George, Herbert Hübner, Franziska Kinz, Carsta Löck
Votes: 22
from Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
54. Et dukkehjem (2002 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Peter Reichhardt | Stars: Trine Appel, Jesper Hyldegaard, Morten Kirkskov, Per Linderoth
Votes: 11
from Ibsen's Wild Duck
55. Vestire gli ignudi (1954)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jacqueline Porel
Votes: 15
from Pirandello
56. Henry IV (1984)
PG-13 | 85 min | Drama
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Leopoldo Trieste, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 386
from Pirandello
57.
Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Episode:
Calígula II
(2001)
120 min | Drama
Directors: Eloy de la Iglesia, Armando Leal | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Sancho Gracia, Juan Díaz
Votes: 20
from Albert Camus
58. The Plague (1992)
R | 148 min | Drama
In the 1990s, a South American city suffers the outbreak of a plague. The people react in different ways: Dr. Rieux tries to cure the sick, two French journalists expect sensational headlines, pious believers lament this God-given scourge.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marc Barr, Robert Duvall
Votes: 973
59. La maison Tellier (1981)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Pierre Chevalier | Stars: Arlette Didier, Olivier Mathot, Françoise Blanchard, Michel Tugot-Doris
Votes: 18
from De Maupassant
60. Hantises (1997)
80 min | Drama
Director: Michel Ferry | Stars: John Berry, Francis Boespflug, Marina Golovine, François Négret
Votes: 20
from Maupassant's masterful Le Horla
(laughing out loud)
62. Maçã com sabor de gasolina (2012)
13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
The city of Rio de Janeiro transformed through graffiti and poetry.
Director: Cristiana Miranda | Stars: Felipe Cataldo, Mag Magrela, Ezra Pound, Carango Sá
A private joke on the great French symbolist poet Mallarmé
63. The Maias (2001– )
Drama, Romance
Portrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family.
Stars: Isabelle Drummond, Fábio Assunção, Ana Paula Arósio, Walmor Chagas
Votes: 448
OS MAIAS was a big flop as far as tv audiences are concerned, not because its audience wasn't on the intellectual side, but plainly because it is monotonous, pretentious and too dark. Based on a novel by the great Portuguese writer Eça de Queiros, it was supposed to be a rich, sumptuously textured series. It was indeed very difficult to watch, especially for those who hadn't read the novel. Mind you, I had. Hard it was to follow each chapter.
64. Esli by znat... (1993)
87 min | Drama
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Blank | Stars: Andrey Tashkov, Yuliya Menshova, Marina Bakina, Elena Drobysheva
Votes: 16
from Chekhov's Three Sisters
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: 106,414 | Gross: $12.82M
66. Vedma (2006)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she ... See full summary »
Director: Oleg Fesenko | Stars: Valeriy Nikolaev, Evgeniya Kryukova, Lembit Ulfsak, Arnis Licitis
Votes: 621
from Gogol's The Vyi (aka La Maschera del demonio)
67. The Nose (2012)
2 min | Short, Comedy
Surrealistic take on the short novel by Nikolay Gogol, filled with healthy humor.
Director: Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Mykola Yeriomin, Leonid Syplyi
Votes: 18
from Gogol's The Nose
68. Le journal d'un fou (1987)
89 min | Drama
In the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. Poprichtchine, a small official living almost in misery, decides not to go to the office. Coming from a noble family, he can not stand his condition anymore.
Director: Roger Coggio | Stars: Roger Coggio, Fanny Cottençon, Yvette Etiévant, Jean-Pierre Darras
Votes: 13
from Gogol
69. Blood Wedding (1938)
104 min | Drama
On the eve of her wedding, the bride is pursued by an ex-lover, with tragic consequences.
Director: Edmundo Guibourg | Stars: Margarita Xirgu, Pedro López Lagar, Enrique Diosdado, Amalia Sánchez Ariño
Votes: 22
from García Lorca
70. La casa de Bernarda Alba (1982)
100 min | Drama
Bernarda Alba, a domineering, reclusive, ostentatiously-pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. ... See full summary »
Director: Gustavo Alatriste | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Magda Guzmán, Rosenda Monteros, Laura Cepeda
Votes: 25
from G. Lorca
71. En attendant Godot (1989 TV Movie)
141 min | Drama
Director: Walter D. Asmus | Stars: Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Pierre Jorris, Roman Polanski, Rufus
Votes: 45
72. Per favore, occupati di Amelia (1981)
96 min | Comedy
A fake marriage to collect a large inheritance transforms whoever had invented the fraud into a victim.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Renzo Montagnani, Gianni Cavina, Leopoldo Mastelloni
Votes: 45
from Feydeau's Occupe-toi d'Amélie
73. Räkan från Maxim (1980 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy
Dr. Petypon wakes up after a wild party with a young lady called Räkan, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. He has messed it up badly. How can this be explained to his wife?
Director: Hans Alfredson | Stars: Lena Nyman, Monica Zetterlund, Thommy Berggren, Jan Blomberg
Votes: 20
Feydeau's La Dame de Chez Maxim's
74. Brouk v hlave (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Comedy
Director: Gustav Skála | Stars: Jirí Dvorák, Zdena Herfortová, Zdenek Junák, Josef Jurásek
Votes: 14
Feydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille
75. Sevdigim sendin (1955)
Drama, Romance
The dramatic love between a married teacher and a deaf, dumb and blind girl.
Director: Agah Hün | Stars: Neriman Esen, Mualla Kaynak, Lale Oraloglu, Sadri Alisik
Votes: 12
from Gide's Symphonie Pastorale
76. Daisy Miller (1974)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 1,932 | Gross: $0.36M
Well intended, if ill executed
77. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Unrated | 193 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Votes: 6,348 | Gross: $0.03M
78. The Aspern Papers (2018)
R | 90 min | Drama
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
Director: Julien Landais | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Lois Robbins
Votes: 812
The Lost Moment was a superior version
79. Don Quixote (1992)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a Spanish gentlemen gone mad and his dim-witted squire Sancho Panza, who set forth on a journey to right wrongs and accomplish good deeds in the name of chivalry.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Pepe Mediavilla, Juan Carlos Ordóñez
Votes: 905
The themes Cervantes explored in his book were hardly touched on, if at all, no doubt because most of the story wasn't told at all. The essence of Cervantes' picaresque saga is definitely not here.
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