Movies (164) tagged by 'Foreign Language Adaptation'
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The Ring Two (2005)
Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think th...
A Moment to Remember (2004)
A Korean love story about a young couple's enduring love, which is tested when 27 year old Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's diseas...
A Little Romance (1979)
A worldly Parisian (Laurence Olivier) tells two teenage lovers (Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard) to kiss at dusk under the Bridge of Sighs in V...
War of the Buttons (1995)
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
Bonjour tristesse (1958)
In the French Riviera, the spoiled and futile seventeen years old girl Cecile is spending the summer vacation with her father, the widow playboy and bon-vivant...
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Dep...
Bel Ami (2012)
A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women.
Irma la Douce (1963)
Naive, by the book French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station a...
The Ring Finger (2005)
Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.
We're No Angels (1989)
Two escaped convicts on the run (Robert De Niro and Sean Penn) try to outsmart the law by masquerading as priests. Their goal is to find a way into Canada befor...
A Doll’s House (1973)
Nora (Bloom) will do anything to please her authoritarian husband Torvald (Hopkins). Per Torvald's instructions, Nora focuses on such womanly disciplines as d...
A Little Night Music (1977)
Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and b...
Body Parts (1991)
Entertaining, bloody shocker in which possessed body parts turn their transplant recipients into maniacs.
The Bengali Night (1988)
Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which inclu...
Snow Queen (2002)
Ever since her mother was found dead in the snow when she was eight, Gerda hated winter and kept herself safely hidden away from it as well as the rest of the ...
Buddy Buddy (1981)
This black comedy stars the comic duo of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a pair of antagonists. Trabucco (Matthau) is a hitman who, having already dispatche...
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Gervase Phinn is a popular writer and performer and is best known for his autobiogrphical novels, Up and Down in the Dales, The Other Side of The Dale, Over H...
Tune in Tomorrow (1990)
A veteran soap opera writer Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) assigned to save a failing radio show finds inspiration when he arrives and meets a young writer Mar...
Anastasia (1956)
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne...
Mord im Pfarrhaus (2009)
Jede Kleinstadt hat ihre Geheimnisse. Das englische "Little Wallop" ist dabei keine Ausnahme. In einem gemütlichen, kleinen Haus mitten in der schönst...
Pinocchio and The Emperor of The Night (1987)
Pinocchio finds himself in danger when he decides, against Geppetto's warnings, to visit the town's carnival. Can he survive the night without encountering th...
The Big Picture (2010)
Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap cat...
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her w...
Hatyarin (1965)
Järkyttävä näytelmä ihmisen yksinäisyydestä ja sisäisestä tuskasta.
Phaedra (1962)
Director Jules Dassin's dazzling update of the Greek tragedy by Euripedes focuses on Greek shipbuilding tycoon Raf Vallone's marriage to the f...
Fanny (1961)
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before...
The Borrower Arrietty (2010)
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabi...
All God's Children Can Dance (2008)
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days work...
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
A curmudgeonly man is mistakenly told that he has 90 minutes to live by his doctor and promptly sets out to reconcile with his wife, brother and friends in the ...
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a...
The Scandal (2003)
Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' this film is set in aristocratic 18th-century Korea at the end of the Chosun Dynasty. The irresistible temptress ...
The Queen of Spades (1949)
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic abou...
Don Quixote (2000)
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
The Berlin Affair (1985)
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the da...
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beau...
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
Let Yourself Believe that Once Upon A Time Good Prevailed Where Evil Existed and Puppets Walked Without Strings [us]
Normal the Dusseldorf Ripper (2009)
Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defe...
Failan (2001)
Kang-jae, a bum, whose only wish is going back to his hometown with a fishing boat, gets involved in a crime committed by his boss. One day, he receives a lett...
J'ai epouse une ombre (1983)
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Therese Raquin (2013)
Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, ...
Miss Julie (2009)
When theatre meets cinema. We aimed for a theatrical experience where we feel these characters trapped in front of us. It's an exciting place to be in which is ...
People Will Talk (1951)
A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WIL...
Eaux profondes (1981)
Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be...
Oslo 31 August (2011)
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old fr...
The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976)
This adult movie is a costume period piece, filmed on location in Spain. Corey John Fisher stars as Don Quixote. The movie even included musical numbers, with s...
Le crime est notre affaire (2008)
Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of c...
Le prix du danger (1983)
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on tele...
Arch of Triumph (1948)
In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, wh...
Master of the World (1961)
The world in the late 19th century: A scientist and his team are held as "guests" of Robur on his airship, that he want to use to ensure peace on earth. Peace ...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia, a dotty Parisian countess. But sooner or later, Aurelia had to find out about the so-called sane world. Join her in a ...
Unforgiven (2013)
Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Vil...
Tere Mere Sapne (1971)
Dr. Anand Kumar attains his degree in medicine and re-locates to a small village to assist the local doctors there. Upon arrival, he is met by the ailing Dr. Pr...
Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)
Aa a lost heir to a princely throne, Kumar is raised by a foster family. When he falls in love with their beautiful daughter he must first confront her bad-te...
Trap for Cinderella (2013)
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
The Immortal Story (1968)
The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is no...
Black House (2007)
After narrowly escaping death, young Rachel Rosenthal becomes part of the Jewish resistance, assuming the name Ellis de Vries. Her superiors o...
Cactus Flower (1969)
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
The Blue Bird (1940)
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue...
Deadly Game (1982)
Almost a filmed version of a stage play, complete with curtain call. Howard Trapp, seeking shelter from a storm in the Swiss Alps, finds himself playing the acc...
Per favore occupati di Amelia (1982)
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L'associe (1979)
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes ...
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burges...
O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta (2005)
A Romeo-and-Juliet kind of love affair. The difference here is what sets the two lovers apart: their soccer teams. Being a fan of Corinthians, Romeu has to fake...
Heaven's Door (2009)
A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never...
Flesh of the Orchid (1975)
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight ...
Crime and Punishment (2002)
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
Going by the Book (2007)
Things get out of control when Doman, an eager and saintly traffic cop, is asked the play the role of the bank robber in a robbery intervention police training ...
Der Mann nebenan (1991)
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
13de brevet (1951)
Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
The Horsemen (2009)
Dennis Quaid (FREQUENCY) stars in this thriller of Biblical proportions. Widowed detective Aidan Breslin (Quaid) looks into a series of seemingly dissimilar mu...
A Royal Scandal (1945)
In 18th century Russia,the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of t...
The Green Room (1978)
A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's o...
Mary Poppins, Goodbye (1983)
A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Retribution (2023)
A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.
Cin cin (1992)
An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.
Tod im kalten Morgenlicht (1996)
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
The Good Fairy (1935)
A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
Starship Troopers (1988)
Episode 01 "Johnnie" follows Juan "Johnnie" Rico who's just graduated and is secretly in love with his fellow graduate student Carmencita "Carmen" Ibañez. Both ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles. (1981)
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known h...
Snezhnaya koroleva (1967)
An adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen".
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find...
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
Bu Ken Qu Guan Yin aka Avalokiteshvara (2013)
Japanese monk Hui'e royal quest to find the fabled figurine of Bodhisattva Guan Yin during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) sets off a chain of events that transfo...
Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)
An Indian adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" focusing on two sisters of opposing temperaments.
The Place (2017)
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish,...
Fathers' Day (1997)
Jack Lawrence is a smart allec lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is a...
Only Yesterday (1933)
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even r...
Afternoon (2007)
A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits th...
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself d...
Le notti bianche (1957)
A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.
La cravate (1957)
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
The Favorite (1989)
At the dawn of the 19th century, a young French woman is kidnapped and forced into a sultan's harem in Turkey. Fiercely independent, she resists, but must m...
The Blood of Others (1984)
WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who wi...
Diary of a Lady-Killer (1969)
After one of his lovers committed suicide, a young playboy involved to a mysteries death of his lovers one by one. Meanwhile his girlfriend try to discover the ...
A Flea in Her Ear (1968)
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Sir Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act.
Oedipus the King (1968)
This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price f...
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
In 1868, American inventor Victor Barbicane develops a powerful military explosive that he also uses as fuel for a moon-bound rocket manned by himself and a mot...
The Long Way Home (1998)
After the death of his wife, depressed Tom Gerrin meets Leane Bossert, a 21-year-old free spirit, and the unlikely pair hitchhike across the country. In learnin...
Don Quijote (1957)
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompan...
Mack the Knife (1989)
In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father &#...
Arashi ga oka (1988)
A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.
The Mysterious Island (1929)
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island'...
Cop-Out (1967)
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused o...
One of My Wives Is Missing (1976)
Daniel Corban's wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn't actually his wife.
Chair de poule (1963)
A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything.
The Story of Fifteen Boys (1987)
Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea w...
Crime and Punishment (2002)
Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pret...
Mayday (2020)
Janek, who has two wives, skillfully maneuvers between them. The risk that one of his loved ones will learn about a double relationship increases dramatically a...
The Brothers Rico (1957)
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.
The Balcony (1963)
In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
Lady L (1966)
Lady L is an elegant, elderly lady who recalls the past loves and lusty adventures she has lived through.
L'amore (1948)
In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph...
Les possédés (1988)
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
Samurai Saga (1959)
Japanese version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', a poet/swordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another. Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get t...
The Southern Star (1969)
In 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, who's posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, ...
The Three Musketeers (1986)
Cardinal Richelieu and Milady team up against the King's Musketeers in 17th century France.
Tamango (1958)
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forci...
Les Misérables (1935)
In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1985)
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace...
Reflections of Murder (1974)
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school...
The Snow Queen (1995)
Tom (Damian Hunt) and his sister Ellie (Ellie Beaven) live in an ordinary town leading ordinary lives but not for long. Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Sn...
Arch of Triumph (1984)
In Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.
The Visit (1964)
An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's ...
Emil and the Detectives (1935)
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with...
Unholy Love (1932)
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
No Greater Glory (1934)
Adapted from The Paul Street Boys, an autobiographical novel by Ferenc Molnar, GLORY is an unusually sensitive evocation of the pain of youth and the senselessn...
Confession (1937)
Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.
A Certain Smile (1958)
Dominique, a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a fellow classmate. Unfortunately, she's more attracted to his philandering Uncle Luc, who's married to ...
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume h...
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris, Monsieur Boniface with ...
Markisinnan de Sade (1992)
Ingmar Bergman's staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his fai...
Tartuffe, or The Impostor (1983)
Televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
A Time for Loving (1972)
The film depicts several stories surrounding an apartment in Paris, and the various people who occupy it over the years.
The Dance of Death (1969)
A filmed record of Laurence Olivier's farewell theatrical performance as the canny, psychotic captain of the August Strindberg play.
The Twin (1984)
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother an...
Fifteen Boys Adrift (1982)
A troop of children from eight to thirteen, abandoned on an island, struggling for life in the midst of passion fueled by the differences of nationalities. A st...
Black Tulip (1988)
When a 100,000-guilder contest is announced in 1800s Holland, Cornelius sets about to grow one to win the prize. However, at the same time, the local alchemist,...
Saidoweizu (2009)
A middle-aged Japanese man travels to California to attend the wedding of his American-based friend. Prior to the big event, they take one last trip to Napa Val...
The Little Match Girl (1987)
A man, estranged from his wealthy family, reconciles at Christmas with the help of a homeless little match girl.
Der Hund von Baskerville (1929)
After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery.
Drømspel (1994)
Agnes, the daughter of the God Indra, is sent down to Earth to research if human complaints are founded in reality, and during her odyssey this is confirmed. Sh...
So Ends Our Night (1941)
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.
Il ritorno di Casanova (2023)
The Venetian libertine has trouble facing the fact that he's over 60.
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