classic literature movies

Daisy Miller (1974)
6.1 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false...

The Return of the Native (1994)
6.5 / 10

Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to...

Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde (2019)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators...

Lorna Doone (1990)
6 / 10

Drama, TV Movie, Romance

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

Anna Karenina (1985)
5.2 / 10

Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.

Las locuras de don Quijote (2006)
6.6 / 10

Documentary

An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened: to reason, to freedom, to love, to friendship,...

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein (2018)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than...

The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The...

Ernest Hemingway: 4 Weddings and a Funeral (2021)
7 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), a man infinitely more complex than his public image suggested, through the...

100 Years of Ulysses (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner...

Le Malade imaginaire (1986)
0 / 10

Comedy

Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley? (2020)
8 / 10

Documentary, History

England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer...

Nursery Rhyme Review (1946)
6.3 / 10

Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose...

Mohammad Saadh (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named...

Ernst Jünger: Between Nature and Nationalism (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

A portrait of the controversial German writer Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), the great stylist of 20th century German literature.