Literary Adaptation Movies

A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?

A doctor in a mental research institution is driven insane by the spectacle of the horrors of the twentieth century.

As the main caretaker of her alcoholic father, a young woman experiences doubts as she prepares to leave her stagnant life behind for a boyfriend she...

A love story between a gypsy woman and a nobleman, who disguises himself as a gypsy under the name Andrés Caballero to test the sincerity of...

Set in the Taisho era, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer,...

During his final days at Buenos Aires’ Hospital de Clínicas, writer Horacio Quiroga confronts his terminal illness as memories, visions,...

Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a female ghost at night, but emphasised neither the...

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and...

Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.

An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the...

Three tales of vacation-themed horror adapted from the bestselling book by Grindhouse Press.

The little dove Vinga gets lost when she is on her way home after buying strawberry jam.

Jonás and Raquel live in the field. Their life is happy and in harmony with the envoronment. One day, Néstor, Jonás's brother,...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

Follows an aging artist who, after the death of her partner, is moved into a unique long-term care residence where she begins to distrust her...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief...

Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story of Treasure Island comes to life in this colourful...

A young woman's summer in New York includes working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, her return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all...

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.