Based On Play Or Musical Movies

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate...

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.

When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go...

The servant Josef enters the seemingly peaceful household of the psychiatrist Jaroslav and his wife Žofie, a great lover of the theatre. He is...

A comedy drawing on classical antiquity. In the play, the author mocks stupidity and arrogance, and also metes out just retribution.

Mrs. Piskořová, co-owner of a debt-ridden boarding house, forces her daughter Klára to marry a wealthy elderly architect,...

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very...

Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and...

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

Two sisters reunite in Lapland for Christmas, but chaos erupts when one niece tells her cousin Santa isn't real. The revelation triggers a family...