10 Popular Movies Adapted From Classic Literature

Do you know that your favorite films may actually based on classic literature? Like The Lion King is based on Hamlet, My Fair Lady, Hepburn acted as the leading role, is based on Pygmalion. And recent years, many classic novels were remade, like Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby...These good movies save us much time to learn about the masterpiece. Learn culture and literature through films and television programs is the trend of our time. So, Chilimovie choose 10 popular movies based on literature. 

Release Date
2005-11-11
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures, StudioCanal
  • Director : Guy Heeley, Thomas Napper, Sue Hills
  • Stars : Keira Knightley , Matthew Macfadyen , Brenda Blethyn
  • A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Release Date
1994-06-24
  • Rate : 8.5
  • Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation
  • Director : Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, Jennifer Yuan
  • Stars : Matthew Broderick , Moira Kelly , Nathan Lane
  • A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?
Release Date
1964-10-21
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director : George Cukor, David S. Hall
  • Stars : Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , Stanley Holloway
  • A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Release Date
1939-12-15
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • Director : Victor Fleming, Ralph Slosser, George Cukor
  • Stars : Vivien Leigh , Clark Gable , Olivia de Havilland
  • The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Release Date
2013-11-08
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : BBC Film, Unison Films
  • Director : Rowena Ladbury, Mike Newell
  • Stars : Jeremy Irvine , Helena Bonham Carter , Ralph Fiennes
  • Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Release Date
2007-12-18
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), WGBH Boston
  • Director : Coky Giedroyc
  • Stars : Timothy Spall , Tom Hardy , Sophie Okonedo
  • Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver dares to ask for more gruel, he finds himself cast out and forced to make his own way in the world...
Release Date
2008-01-01
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : BBC Worldwide, WGBH Boston
  • Director : John Alexander
  • Stars : Linda Bassett , Jean Marsh , David Morrissey
  • This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Release Date
1997-04-04
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros. Pictures, Icon Entertainment International
  • Director : Bernard Rose
  • Stars : Sophie Marceau , Sean Bean , Alfred Molina
  • Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Release Date
2013-05-10
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : Village Roadshow Pictures, Bazmark
  • Director : Baz Luhrmann, Betty Fotofili, Jennifer Leacey
  • Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Tobey Maguire , Carey Mulligan
  • An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Release Date
2011-03-11
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : BBC Film, Ruby Films
  • Director : Lee Grumett, Carley Lane, Jo Tew
  • Stars : Mia Wasikowska , Michael Fassbender , Jamie Bell
  • After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?