Literary Adaptation Movies

  • 1956
    Beauty Raised from the Dead

    Beauty Raised from the Dead

    Beauty Raised from the Dead

    01956HD

    Lau Mung-mui chances on To Lai-leung and their encounter transcends to a rendezvous in their dreams. They admire each other, but they do not know each...

    Beauty Raised from the Dead
  • 2024
    Berenice

    Berenice

    Berenice

    02024HD

    Berenice
  • 1958
    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams

    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams

    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams

    01958HD

    Songstress Mui Yee-wah falls head over heels for painter Wai Tik-fung despite their age difference. Because Wai is a married man, Mui's mother is agai...

    A Lovely Girl's Lovely Dreams
  • 2012
    Such A Girl Like Me

    Such A Girl Like Me

    Such A Girl Like Me

    02012HD

    '...is unsuitable for any man's love.' (Xi Xi, A Woman Like Me) Sum-yin patches up wounds, masks scars and performs other beautician services that, wh...

    Such A Girl Like Me
  • 1936
    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

    01936HD

    The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

    Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
  • 2010
    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    Flooding with Love for The Kid

    4.52010HD

    A one-man adaptation of First Blood, filmed over the course of four months, entirely within a 220-sq. ft. apartment.

    Flooding with Love for The Kid
  • 1967
    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell

    01967HD

    Ghost-faced To is murdered in a mortuary after paying a visit to Muk Lan-fa. A set of teeth is found missing from another dead body. Lan-fa’s sister S...

    Lady in Black Cracks the Gate of Hell
  • 1922
    Trilby

    Trilby

    Trilby

    01922HD

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

    Trilby
  • 2020
    Confidences d'une femme mariée

    Confidences d'une femme mariée

    Confidences d'une femme mariée

    02020HD

    After ten years of marriage, a woman decides to tell her husband about her libertine past. A cascade of revelations follows, all as unexpected as they...

    Confidences d'une femme mariée
  • 1908
    Trilby

    Trilby

    Trilby

    01908HD

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

    Trilby
  • 1959
    The Chair

    The Chair

    The Chair

    01959HD

    After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee...

    The Chair
  • 1922
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    01922HD

    A charitable childhood deed holds fateful consequences for poor Pip. An anonymous benefactor paves the way for Pip’s transformation and subsequent soc...

    Great Expectations
  • 1993
    Beck – De gesloten kamer

    Beck – De gesloten kamer

    Beck – De gesloten kamer

    71993HD

    A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?

    Beck – De gesloten kamer
  • 1967
    Stroller

    Stroller

    Stroller

    01967HD

    An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional...

    Stroller
  • 1895
    Trilby Dance

    Trilby Dance

    Trilby Dance

    01895HD

    The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

    Trilby Dance
  • 1895
    Quartette

    Quartette

    Quartette

    01895HD

    Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

    Quartette
  • 1895
    Hypnotic Scene

    Hypnotic Scene

    Hypnotic Scene

    01895HD

    The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David Henderso...

    Hypnotic Scene
  • 1938
    Sable Cicada

    Sable Cicada

    Sable Cicada

    61938HD

    Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada),one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide...

    Sable Cicada
  • 1964
    Spy No. 13

    Spy No. 13

    Spy No. 13

    01964HD

    During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a re...

    Spy No. 13
  • 2013
    Frankenstein's Master

    Frankenstein's Master

    Frankenstein's Master

    102013HD

    Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from...

    Frankenstein's Master