Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "adaptation-directed-by-original-author"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
51. The German Doctor (2013)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.
Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Daicz
Votes: 7,792 | Gross: $0.41M
52. Venus Wars (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Two thriving colonies, Ishtar and Aphrodia, exist on the planet Venus in the year 2089. War breaks out, and Ishtar invades Aphrodia, sweeping its residents, including motorcycle rider Hiro and his teammates, into the chaos of the conflict.
Directors: Kôichi Chigira, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Stars: Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Eriko Hara, Yûko Sasaki
Votes: 1,997
53. The Final Master (2015)
Not Rated | 109 min | Action, Drama
A Wing Chun master has to defeat 8 martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics.
Director: Haofeng Xu | Stars: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang, Shih-Chieh King
Votes: 2,842
54. That Championship Season (1982)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sport
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their former basketball coach and ended up revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Miller | Stars: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen
Votes: 712
55. Arion (1986)
R | 118 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Arion begins with his journey to discover a world of poverty and horror where ordinary people are barely surviving through the war. He falls in love with a blind slave girl who is then ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Stars: Shigeru Nakahara, Miki Takahashi, Mayumi Tanaka, Hirotaka Suzuoki
Votes: 461
56. Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (2008)
103 min | Romance
Mayhem ensues when a 37-year-old ad executive on the rebound falls for a bubbly high school senior.
Director: Federico Moccia | Stars: Raoul Bova, Michela Quattrociocche, Francesca Ferrazzo, Beatrice Valente
Votes: 5,432
57. Last Letter (I) (2020)
120 min | Romance
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's ... See full summary »
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Hideaki Anno, Masaharu Fukuyama, Suzu Hirose, Ryunosuke Kamiki
Votes: 1,317
58. We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga, Patricia Pierangeli
Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $0.01M
59. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
Director: Sijie Dai | Stars: Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang
Votes: 4,589 | Gross: $0.67M
60. Jesus Henry Christ (2011)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
At the age of ten, Henry James Herman, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Director: Dennis Lee | Stars: Jason Spevack, Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Samantha Weinstein
Votes: 6,306 | Gross: $0.02M
61. Ruben Guthrie (2015)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ruben Guthrie is the story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won't let him put it down.
Director: Brendan Cowell | Stars: Patrick Brammall, Alex Dimitriades, Abbey Lee, Harriet Dyer
Votes: 682
62. Birds in Peru (1968)
X | 95 min | Drama
On a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.
Director: Romain Gary | Stars: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 196
63. Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
178 min | Crime, Drama
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Marg Helgenberger, Ronny Cox, Ken Howard
Votes: 599
64. Blackeyes (1989)
196 min | Drama
Blackeyes is an attempt to explore "what does go on between men and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways that they see each other." Complex and multi-layered, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Gough, Carol Royle, Nigel Planer, Gina Bellman
Votes: 206
65. American Tragedy (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 170 min | Crime, Drama
Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Bruno Kirby, Darryl Alan Reed
Votes: 251
66. Pursuit (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Thriller
A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Ben Gazzara, E.G. Marshall, William Windom, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 539
67. Secret Friends (1991)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Potter | Stars: Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Frances Barber, Tony Doyle
Votes: 145
68. His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914)
59 min | Family, Fantasy, Adventure
The wicked king wants his daughter, Princess Gloria, to marry a horrid courtier though she loves the gardener's boy Pon. After encountering Dorothy, Pon and her team up to defeat the evil witch Mombi and to rescue the princess.
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald | Stars: Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Pierre Couderc, Fred Woodward
Votes: 524
69. Last Letter (2018)
114 min | Drama, Romance
Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Xun Zhou, Hao Qin, Jiang Du, Zifeng Zhang
Votes: 777 | Gross: $0.18M
70. La fuga (2001)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Mignogna | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras
Votes: 841
71. An Ordinary Execution (2010)
105 min | Drama, History
Moscow, 1952. Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles.
Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 585
72. Toute la beauté du monde (2006)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdown. During a journey to Asia, where Tina... See full summary »
Director: Marc Esposito | Stars: Marc Lavoine, Zoé Félix, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Albane Duterc
Votes: 293
73. Bremen Freedom (1972 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling, Lilo Pempeit
Votes: 289
74. Doberman (2019)
72 min | Drama
A nap afternoon in the outskirts of town. The worlds of two women intertwine, going from a casual conversation to a battle field, without being able to avoid the inevitable: a domestic tragedy.
Director: Azul Lombardía | Stars: Maruja Bustamante, Mónica Raiola, Andrea Strenitz, Octavio Luna
Votes: 25
75. Mon père, il m'a sauvé la vie (2001)
115 min | Crime, Drama
Joe, international poker player, is considered an irresponsible family-chief. His two sons drifted into gangsterism. The older dies from it. The younger, Manu, was sentenced to death. Joe takes on to a terrific battle in order to save his son. Will he succeed in it? For life has more than one trick in its well-worn sleeve.
Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Vincent Lecoeur, Rufus, Michelle Goddet
Votes: 208
76. Nidra (2012)
95 min | Drama
Raju (Siddharath himself), who was in Germany to do some research, was not informed of his mother's demise, and has a nervous breakdown when he gets the news. He takes a couple of years to ... See full summary »
Director: Sidharth Bharathan | Stars: Sidharth Bharathan, Rima Kallingal, Jishnu Raghavan, Sarayu Mohan
Votes: 122
77. After Five (1915)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Ted Ewing, a young New Yorker, is the guardian of Nora Hildreth, with whom he is in love. He invests her fortune of $50,000 and an equal amount of his own money (constituting almost his ... See full summary »
Directors: Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Edward Abeles, Sessue Hayakawa, Betty Schade, Jane Darwell
Votes: 26
78. The Squeaker (1930)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Director: Edgar Wallace | Stars: Percy Marmont, Anne Grey, Gordon Harker, Trilby Clark
Votes: 43
79. Misery (2016)
13 min | Short, Drama
Director: Timothy Baylor | Stars: Andréa Agosto, Denice Riddle, Jordan Baylor
80. Le mot de Cambronne (1937)
36 min | Short
Inspired by playwright Edmond Rostand, this comedy short pivots around a general who has uttered a French cuss word that no one wants to speak aloud.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Pauline Carton, Marguerite Moreno
Votes: 156
81. Knowing Men (1930)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
An heiress poses as a marquise's companion to avoid fortune hunters.
Director: Elinor Glyn | Stars: Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi, Helen Haye, C.M. Hallard
82. Bollongexpeditionen (2003)
19 min | Animation, Short
Harriet Iver-Larsen, an engineer/inventor ant, builds a hot-air balloon. Accompanied by two other ants, they set out on an expedition by balloon, the purpose of which is to bring back to the colony knowledge about far-off continents.
Director: Anna Bengtsson | Stars: Ingela Almgren, Gunna Grähs, Martina Haag, Kajsa Ingemarsson
83. Kiljusen pojat koulussa (1921)
5 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Director: Jalmari Finne | Star: Joel Rinne
Votes: 9
84. Rouge (2011)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Catto Grégory | Stars: Stephen Chang, Catherine Gillet, Claire Ory, Michael Rue
85. Pavane (2008)
7 min | Short, Drama
Phil and Jay share more than a family bond - failed careers, failed relationships, bottomless drinks, and a debilitating memory of a shocking encounter in a ravine one childhood day. The ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Quarrington | Stars: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Cathy Current, Luzette de Belchior, Sandy Duarte
Votes: 9
86.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Chocolate
(2005)
TV-MA | 60 min | Horror
In Chicago, Jamie works in the food lab of a company developing flavors. Jamie is divorced and on a diet, but after eating a chocolate, he becomes connected to a beautiful woman. He can see... See full summary »
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Henry Thomas, Matt Frewer, Stacy Grant, Jake D. Smith
Votes: 3,374