Cracks 2009 is set in 1930s, some girl has lesbian crush on Miss G while she has appeal to other students girl named Fiamma that make Mrs Dalloway [1997] 27.36K3 Based on the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, and moving continually between the present and the past that is in the characters...
Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, “Orlando” starts in the 1600s, where a dying Queen Elizabeth I (played by cross-dresser Quentin Crisp) grants an androgynous nobleman (Swinton) a vast estate — but only if he promises to remain forever young. He does just that, and midway through...
Based on the first novel by ‘Angry Young Man’ author Alan Sillitoe, (who also wrote ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’), the film gave Albert Finney his big break as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-loving Arthur Seaton, a nihilistic machine worker in Nottingham who ...
Based on a 2016 episode of “This American Life” drawn from Wang’s own experiences, “The Farewell” centers on Billi, an out-of-work New York writer who learns from her parents that her beloved grandmother — that is, her “Nai Nai” (Zhao Shuzhen) — has terminal cancer. While th...
Based on a true story, this film explores the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and legendary author Virginia Woolf. I’d love to compare this one withColette,another literary biopic with an LGBT angle. Especially considering thatVita & Virginiahas a female director andColettedoes not. ...
Quentin Crisp plays Elizabeth I in this strange tale based on Virginia Woolf’s novel. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/ The Prince and the Pauper (BBC TV mini-series 1996) BBC mini-series based on the Mark Twain story. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398547/ ...
Originally based on the novel A Letter to Five Wives before being trimmed (at one point Anne Baxter was to have played a fourth wife), it opens with three wives (Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, and Linda Darnell) receiving a letter from a never-seen friend informing them that she’s leaving...
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Based on Virginia Woolf’s landmark novel, “Orlando” follows Tilda Swinton as the eponymous nobleman who wakes up one day, after a few centuries of life, as a woman. Orlando’s exploits through several critical moments in history make up the loose plot of this fantastical drama, though it...
Also ranks #30 on The Best Lifetime Movies Based on a True Story 17 Carol Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson 609 votes This sumptuous period piece tells the story of a forbidden love affair between a young shopgirl and a wealthy, married woman in 1950s New York. As the two wome...