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Search results for | Great Literature on Film
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Howard's End (25th anniversary, 4K restoration edition)
(1992) [G]
From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and... More
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My Brilliant Career
(1979) [G]
Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, Sybylla dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean conformists. Though it is... More
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The Power Of One
(1992) [PG]
From the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky and The Karate Kid come a story as explosive as today's headlines. Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact), John Gielgud (Arthur) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) star in The Power Of One, a compelling, hard-hitting movie from hitmaker John G. Avildsen. Based on the... More
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Patriot Games
(1992) [M]
Harrison Ford stars as Jack Ryan in this explosive thriller based on Tom Clancy's international best-seller. His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife (Anne Archer, Fatal Attraction) and child (Thora Birch, All I... More
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David Copperfield
(1935) [G]
"We are friends for life." The man speaking: Micawber, played by W.C. Fields with great comedic charm and human warmth. The child addressed: David, played by Freddie Bartholomew in his Hollywood debut. The movie: David Copperfield, still one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a Charles... More
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King Solomon's Mines
(1950) [PG]
Before there was an Indiana Jones, there was Allan Quartermain, the stalwart hero of H. Rider Haggard's classic 1885 novel that's been filmed four times. Stewart Granger portrays Quartermain in this 1950 adaptation that was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and won Oscars for Color... More
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Captain Blood
(1935) [PG]
It's hard to imagine a better film project for the yet-untried Errol Flynn to have made his starring debut than ''Captain Blood''. Based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, it is the story of an English surgeon wrongly condemned to prison. Flynn, playing Dr. Peter Blood, escapes and leads a revolt... More
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
(1939) [PG]
A remake of the 1923 Lon Chaney classic silent movie, this version of the Victor Hugo tragedy gained two Oscar nominations for its sound recording and musical score. Charles Laughton was at the peak of his box office draw when he donned the mountain of Quasimodo make-up, and gave probably the... More
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We Of The Never Never
(1982) [G]
This fine Australian drama is based on the memoirs of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback. It received six Australian Academy Award Nominations. More
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Damage
(1992) [R]
Jeremy Irons plays Stephen Fleming, a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister, comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage, he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman... More
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