Literary Adaptation Movies

First installment of the Tense Moments with Great Authors series. Presumed lost.

A man finds a whistle bearing a mysterious Latin inscription, which, when blown, awakens horrors beyond human understanding. A decade before the...

A surreal, gothic horror adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, following Fortunato’s fall into madness.

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

Julia, a waitress without much going on in her life, accepts a job offer from Milo, a writer in crisis who needs an assistant to talk to. From these...

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

Mok Ming moves into Po Tak-yan’s old mansion. Po's mistress, the songstress Tsi Law-heung, has died in it. Her spirit haunts the mansion as she...

A poor taxi driver offered a chance for a better financial future must weigh up the cost of walking away from what he most values. // In a world...

Following her recent divorce, a writer moves into a new home to begin penning her next book. Little does she know this house has some dark secrets. A...

Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package...

Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a satire play well-known around the world. In the period between the end of World War II and the 1960s, the...

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between...

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

Loosely based on Charles Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities”, Working Class tells the tale of underground street artists Mike...

ALMAREIA is a dreamlike short film inspired by a chapter in Beneath the Waves of Freedom (Sob as Ondas da Liberdade). Set on a mysterious beach that...

Set in Florida and inspired by Harmony Korine’s homonymous book, Leo Gabin’s film consists of a collage of YouTube videos, mostly...

Two estranged exes are forced to team up to rescue their mutual best friend’s chaotic wedding. As they spend nine days in close quarters at a...