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3 Musketeers

NSA officer Alexandra D'Artagnan enlists the help of three specialist spies from all around the world in order to stop a plot that threatens to kill the President of the United States.

A Caribbean Mystery

While Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisoned before he can reveal his identity to her.

A Christmas Carol

Scrooge is a somewhat unpleasant man who hates Christmas. Some ghosts are going to show him the evil of his ways.

Alex Cross

After Washington DC police detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

Anna Karenina

An adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic of an upper class lady of czarist Russia who risks everything to have an affair.

Anna Karenina

A new adaptation of the classic Tolstoy novel.

Batman Begins

Adapted from DC Comics' Batman character, which was previously adapted into BATMAN (1989) and its reboot/sequels and BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (2005).

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Adapted from DC Comics' Batman character, which was previously adapted into BATMAN (1989) and its reboot/sequels.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula combines the historical Vlad the Impaler, Bram Stoker's novelized Count and other film versions of the most famous vampire.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Cape Fear

Public defender Sam Bowden withheld information regarding the sexually promiscuous activities of a victim of rapist Max Cady, information that might have won Max's acquittal. After serving a hellish 14 year sentence in a barbaric state penitentiary, Cady comes out for revenge.

Carrie

A remake of Brian De Palma's Carrie(1976).

Carrie

A sheltered high-school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers and strict religious mother.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale is the 21st official James Bond movie. Serving as a reboot for the series, the movie opens with Bond earning his 00 rank. Afterwards, Bond is tasked with challenging terrorist financier Le Chiffre at a high-stakes poker game. Daniel Craig's first Bond film.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film-adaptation from Tim Burton of the children's book by Roald Dahl, with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.

Charlotte's Web

Adapted from the novel CHARLOTTE'S WEB, which was previously adapted into CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973)

Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man sells his soul to a painting of himself; wishing to stay as he is in the picture. His wish is granted as the portrait ages with each day while he stays as young and as beautiful. Although cracks begin to show as his inner-ugliness is revealed.

Dracula

Dracula

Dracula 3D

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Dredd

Adapted from the comic 2000 AD, previously adapted as JUDGE DREDD.

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Based on the Dr. Seuss book we follow a boy who tries to find out what happened to all the trees. From the Once-ler on the edge of town he learns about the trees and the Lorax.

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Based on--surprise, surprise--Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) and WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1970).

Fantastic Four: Reborn

Based on the Marvel Comics' characters that make up the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four characters were previously adapted into FANTASTIC FOUR and its sequel.

Farewell, My Lovely

Frankenstein

Frozen

After a kingdom is magically trapped in eternal winter, two adventurers must journey through frigid weather and realms of magical creatures to the home of the Snow Queen to lift the curse. A computer-animated, 3D musical.

Great Expectations

A new adaptation of the classic book.

Horror of Dracula

The Hammer horror studio retells the story of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee as the feared vampire Count Dracula alongside Peter Cushing as the brave Professor Van Helsing.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Adapted numerous times over the years.

Jane Eyre

Les Miserables

An adaptation of the successful stage musical as well as the Victor Hugo book, LES MISARABLES tells the story of a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean in 1800s France seeking redemption and comes across a poor, desperate woman forced into prostitution.

Let Me In

Adapted from the novel LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, which was previously made into LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008)

Little Women

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mysterious Island

A Ray Harryhausen adventure adapting Jules Vern's THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.

Oldboy

An everyday man has only five days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 15 years without any explanation.

Parker

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.

Pinocchio

A puppet searches for a way to become a real boy.

Punisher: War Zone

Based on the Marvel Comics' character PUNISHER, which was previously adapted into THE PUNISHER (2004)

Red Dragon

The FBI agent who captured Hannibal Lecter is called in for one last job-hunting down a mysterious serial killer, with his old cannibal pal as his sidekick.

Romeo and Juliet

When Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers from rival families, meet and fall in love, they must go to extreme lengths to keep their forbidden love a secret.

Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie's stylish take on Sherlock Holmes has him on the case of a mysterious serial killer/cultist.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

The sequel to the 2009 hit, Sherlock Holmes: GoS takes place approximately a year after the first film and follows Holmes as he attempts to hunt down his most fearsome adversary, Professor James Moriarty.

Straw Dogs

Remake of the controversial 1971 film. L.A. screenwriter David Sumner and his wife, Amy, relocate to her hometown in the deep South. Tensions build between them and a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Styria

Styria depicts the intense and fractured relationship between a lonely teenager and a beautiful stranger.

Tales from Earthsea

Produced by Studio Ghibli, Tales from Earth Sea is an animated adaptation of the Earthsea fantasy novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of celebrated animator Hayao Miyazaki.

Tarzan

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The Adventures of Tintin

Previously adapted into several animated and live-action films.

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