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24 results for “cultural-adaptation”

The Mill on the Floss

1978 ★ 6.7

The Mill on the Floss is a British television drama adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel of the same name about the lives of rural 19th century siblings Magg

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Macbeth

2015 ★ 6.4

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the th

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The Bad Sleep Well

1960 ★ 7.7

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of

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Laverne & Shirley in the Army

1981 ★ 7.4

Laverne & Shirley in the Army is a 1981 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series based on the TV show Laverne & Shirley, with the title characters voiced by Penny Marshall

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All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku

1992 ★ 7.0

Ryunosuke has an interesting life for a teen-aged boy. His mother runs a weapons company, his father is an incredible inventor that's on the run from his divorc

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

1990 ★ 6.2

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a 1990 American feature film directed

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Venetian Bird

1952 ★ 6.2

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the mur

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In the Electric Mist

2009 ★ 6.1

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who

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Act One

1963 ★ 6.3

This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy.

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Something Is Out There

1988 ★ 7.8

A short-lived weekly series based on the miniseries of the same name. Something Is Out There is a short-lived weekly television series from 1988 that was create

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Gypsy

1962 ★ 6.3

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of

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Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh

2023 ★ 0.0

After his pivotal novel Trainspotting was published in 1993, the debut work of Irvine Welsh quickly took the world by storm, spawning theatre productions, the i

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Imitation of Life

1959 ★ 7.5

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid. Imitation of Life is a

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The Matchmaker

1958 ★ 7.0

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman. The Matchmaker is a 1958 film based on Thornton Wild

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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

1958 ★ 7.2

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into buil

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Rabies

1958 ★ 6.5

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to anoth

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The One That Got Away

1957 ★ 6.8

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World W

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Andy Robson

1982 ★ 9.7

Andy Robson is a 1982 British children's television series produced by Tyne Tees Television and which was aired on the ITV network for two series in 1982 and 19

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A Kiss Before Dying

1956 ★ 6.3

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters. A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 thriller, drama, and crime film directed as a feature ada

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Hit the Deck

1955 ★ 5.0

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business. Hit the Deck is a 1955 musical film that follows sailors on leave in San Francisco as

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

1980 ★ 7.5

The second part of the series of television films based on the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. The film consists of three episodes (The Kin

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Casino Royale

1954 ★ 5.2

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. Casino Royale is a 1954 television movie and drama that re

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Top Banana

1954 ★ 5.5

Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important departmen

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Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

1987 ★ 8.2

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and

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