Classic Literature Movies
List of movie collections based upon classic novels or books that I have watched, including my favorites.
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- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsKate MaberlyMaggie SmithHeydon ProwseA young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.Adaptation of the novel "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsSusan SarandonWinona RyderKirsten DunstThe March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.Adaptation of the novel "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanEmma WatsonFlorence PughJo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.Based on the novel "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsGlenn CloseChristopher WalkenLexi RandallA single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.Based on the book "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan.
- DirectorMark OsborneStarsJeff BridgesMackenzie FoyRachel McAdamsA little girl lives in a very grown-up world with her mother, who tries to prepare her for it. Her neighbor, the Aviator, introduces the girl to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, the world of the Little Prince.Based on the novella "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert FriendThrough the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.Based on the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsDanny DeVitoRhea PerlmanMara WilsonA girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.Based on the book "Matilda" by Roald Dahl.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsSara TakatsukiKasumi ArimuraNanako MatsushimaAnna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to be.Based on the novel "When Marnie Was There" by Joan G. Robinson.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsBridgit MendlerAmy PoehlerWill ArnettThe Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.Based on the novel "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsChieko BaishôTakuya KimuraTatsuya GashûinWhen an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.Based on the novel "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsKento YamazakiKaya KiyoharaNatsunaAn inventor of robotics technology is robbed by his girlfriend and business partner and sent to the future via cryogenic sleep. But when he awakes 30 years later, he is assisted by a humanoid robot originally his own creation.Based on the novel "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsElla BallentineMartin SheenSara BotsfordA retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy insteadBased on the novel "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.Based on the novel "Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry" by Rosalie K. Fry.
- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsJack BlumenauClare ThomasJemima RooperDramatization of E. Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line.Based on the novel "The Railway Children" by E. Nesbit.
- DirectorRodney GibbonsStarsKathleen FeeMichael CalozMariel HemingwayBased on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. When two homeless boys from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband, the boys learn both academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.Based on the novel "Little Men" by Louisa May Alcott.
- DirectorSunil SorayaStarsHerjunot AliPevita PearceReza RahadianAdapted from a classic novel with the same title, the movie tells a love story between Zainuddin, Hayati, and Aziz. With the difference in social background lead Zainuddin and Hayati's true love to a tragedy on sailing Van Der Wijck ship.Adaptation of the novel "Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck" by Hamka.
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsAnuk SteffenAnna SchinzLilian NaefA story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.Based on the novel "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsJoanna CassidyHeather FairfieldAnnette O'TooleA teenage girl living in 1908 rural Indiana attends high school despite her mother's fierce opposition of her life, the friendship of a free-spirted older woman helps her stick to her goals.Based on the novel "A Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter.
- DirectorMike SchaererStarsKaroline HerfurthAxel PrahlLuis VorbachThe story of a young and nice witch who learns everything there is to know about magic, in order to be accepted by the other older mean witches.Based on the book "The Little Witch" by Otfried Preußler.
- DirectorHanung BramantyoStarsIqbaal Dhiafakhri RamadhanMawar Eva de JonghSha Ine FebriyantiA native Javanese boy and a mixed-Dutch girl fall in love during the early 20th-century colonial turbulence in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).Based on the novel "Bumi Manusia" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsKirsten DunstMinami TakayamaRei SakumaA young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.Based on the novel "Kiki's Delivery Service" by Eiko Kadono.
- DirectorWalter LangWilliam A. SeiterStarsShirley TempleRichard GreeneAnita LouiseA little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.Based on the novel "Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- DirectorGary WinickStarsDakota FanningJulia RobertsOprah WinfreyWilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.Based on the book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White.
- DirectorEdward BergerStarsFelix KammererAlbrecht SchuchAaron HilmerA young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.Based on the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
- DirectorAutumn de WildeStarsAnya Taylor-JoyJohnny FlynnMia GothIn 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.Based on the novel "Emma" by Jane Austen.