Literary Adaptation Movies
THE LOST DAUGHTER
An intimate drama in which a visiting mother, Leda, becomes entangled with another family on a Greek island, sparking memories of her own choices...
EMMA.
Emma (2020) is a stylish Austen adaptation about a witty, self-deceived matchmaker who meddles in others' romances while learning humility. Anya...
SIDDHARTHA
An experimental adaptation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha (1972), directed by Conrad Rooks, this film follows a Brahmin-born seeker as he renounces...
MY SALINGER YEAR
Set in late 1990s New York, My Salinger Year follows Joanna Rakoff, a hopeful recent graduate who lands a lowly assistant job at a literary agency....
MOBY DICK
John Huston's Moby Dick adapts Herman Melville's nautical epic into a towering 1950s film. Gregory Peck stars as the obsessed Captain Ahab, whose...
THE BOOKSHOP
Florence Green, a determined widow, opens a modest bookshop in a 1959 East Anglian town, provoking the town’s polite but ruthless resistance. Isabel...
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