Victorian Writers
Victorian era literature (1837–1901)
Films and TV I have seen based on the novels of writers including:
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
• Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855)
• Emily Bronte (1818–1848)
• George Eliot (1819–1888)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891)
• Anne Bronte (1820–1849)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
• Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
• Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
• Henry James (1843–1916)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Also see:
• The Bloomsbury Group &ct.
Films and TV I have seen based on the novels of writers including:
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
• Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855)
• Emily Bronte (1818–1848)
• George Eliot (1819–1888)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891)
• Anne Bronte (1820–1849)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
• Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
• Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
• Henry James (1843–1916)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
• Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Also see:
• The Bloomsbury Group &ct.
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- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsLon ChaneyPatsy Ruth MillerNorman KerryIn 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.V. Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
- DirectorNoel LangleyStarsJames HayterJames DonaldNigel PatrickThe Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.C. Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836–37)
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMark LesterRon MoodyShani WallisAfter being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.C. Dickens, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (1838)
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsJohn DallimoreJames D'ArcySophia MylesA young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.C. Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39)
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlbert FinneyAlec GuinnessEdith EvansA musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.C. Dickens, A Christmas Carol, In Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (1843)
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsOliver ReedRaquel WelchRichard ChamberlainA young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.A. Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)
- StarsGérard DepardieuOrnella MutiJean RochefortEdmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.A. Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–45)
- StarsRuth WilsonToby StephensLorraine AshbourneA young governess falls in love with her brooding and complex master. However, his dark past may destroy their relationship forever.C. Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsMia WasikowskaMichael FassbenderJamie BellA mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.C. Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
- StarsToby StephensTara FitzgeraldRupert GravesAn adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.A. Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
- StarsNatasha LittleFrances GreyPhilip GlenisterAn adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic story of parvenue Becky Sharp's rise from obscure and humble origins to her subsequent ignominious fall from Society; set against the backdrop of Regency England and continental Europe during the Napoleonic War.W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsFreddie BartholomewFrank LawtonEdna May OliverA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.C. Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
- StarsDaniel RadcliffeTrevor EvePauline QuirkeA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.C. Dickens, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (1850)
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsDev PatelHugh LaurieTilda SwintonA modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsColleen MooreHardie AlbrightHenry B. WalthallIn the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.N. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850)
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsGregory PeckRichard BasehartLeo GennThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.H. Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsJack AransonCaptain Ahab's descent into madness destroys everyone around him. This powerful character drew John Barrymore, Orson Wells and John Huston. This film has been called the best, most authentic version of Herman Melville's MOBY DICK.H. Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
- DirectorJoe MayStarsGeorge SandersMargaret LindsayVincent PriceBased on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.N. Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
- StarsAnna Maxwell MartinCarey MulliganDenis LawsonA suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.C. Dickens, Bleak House (1852–53)
- DirectorJonathan ParkerStarsDavid PaymerCrispin GloverGlenne HeadlyA clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.H.Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853)
- CreatorSue BirtwistleSusie ConklinStarsJudi DenchImelda StauntonJulia McKenzieIn the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip, and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.E. Gaskell, Cranford (1853)
My Lady Ludlow (1858)
Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851) - StarsDaniela Denby-AsheRichard ArmitageTim Pigott-SmithNorth and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.E. Gaskell, North and South (1855)
- DirectorSophie BarthesStarsMia WasikowskaRhys IfansEzra MillerBored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.G. Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsAlexis SmithEleanor ParkerSydney GreenstreetA ghostly woman warns a beautiful Victorian heiress about a count, and a strange spell haunts a mansion and its inhabitants in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel.W. Collins, The Woman in White (1859)
- DirectorTim FywellStarsTara FitzgeraldJustine WaddellAndrew LincolnThe gothic tale of a pair of half-sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white.W. Collins, The Woman in White (1859)
- StarsJessie BuckleyOlivia VinallDougray ScottA bold new adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic gothic novel.
- StarsJudy CornwellBarbara HicksPippa GuardThe tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.G. Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.C. Dickens, Great Expectations (1860–61)
- StarsDouglas BoothJack RothRay WinstoneThe orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.C. Dickens, Great Expectations (1860–61)
- DirectorTakashi HisaokaStarsTadao FutamiYasuo HisamatsuShûichi IkedaJean Valjean,a former convict sentenced to galleys for stealing a single loaf of bread, recover his freedom after nineteen years of penal colony. Further to his meeting with bishop Magloire, he decides to change his life and to become honest. But his past eventually catches up and Valjean has to run away again. He decides however to help an orphan entrusted by its mother to a couple of innkeepers, the Thénardier, which see in this child only a slave and an additional mouth to be fed. Jean Valjean eventually convinces the innkeepers to let him leave with the girl and he bring her to live in Paris. It is there that he start living under the false name of Fauchelevant and that Cosette will find love ten years later. However Valjean past continue to haunt him, in the form of Inspector Javert who didn't let go. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo. This version have been release in U.K. on the Kids Cartoons Collection label and in France and Québec in a french dub, however it seems unavailable in the U.S.V. Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYF7bRKHyV8 - DirectorTom HooperStarsHugh JackmanRussell CroweAnne HathawayIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.V. Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
- StarsPaul McGannKeeley HawesDominic MafhamIntertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.C. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864–65)
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsFiona FullertonMichael JaystonHywel BennettAlice (Fiona Fullerton) falls down a rabbit hole and into a magical dream world populated by surreal characters and bewildering adventures. It's a journey of self-discovery for Alice as she searches for a way out of Wonderland and encounters many bizarre creatures such as the White Rabbit (Michael Crawford), the March Hare (Peter Sellers), the Queen of Hearts (Dame Flora Robson), and the Dormouse (Dudley Moore). Musical highlights include the inspiring song "The Me I Never Knew".L. Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- DirectorNick WillingStarsTina MajorinoWhoopi GoldbergRobbie ColtraneAlice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.L. Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- StarsEvgeniy MironovIgor IvanovMarietta MelrosePrince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.F. Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (1868–89)
- StarsPaul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAs the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.L. Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869)
- StarsMatthew RhysFreddie FoxTamzin MerchantAn exploration of Charles Dicken's unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.C. Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
- StarsDouglas HodgeJuliet AubreyTrevyn McDowellMiddlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.G. Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–72)
- DirectorNicholas LaughlandStarsKeeley HawesJames MurrayTerry MortimerIn this lighthearted romance from Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy, the beautiful new village school teacher is pursued by three suitors: a working-class man, a landowner, and the vicar.T. Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboFredric MarchFreddie BartholomewThe married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.L. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1873–77)
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsPaloma BaezaJonathan FirthNigel TerryA vain, pretty girl has recently taken over her uncle's farm. Her independent, naïve personality leaves her torn between the three men who wish to marry her.T. Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- StarsJodhi MayEdward FoxAmanda RootSet in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness.G. Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsTommy KellyJackie MoranAnn GillisTom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.M. Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiHenry DaniellA ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.R. L. Stevenson, The Body Snatcher (1881)
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsBobby DriscollRobert NewtonBasil SydneyThe treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (1882)
- DirectorJohn HoughAndrea BianchiAntonio MargheritiStarsOrson WellesKim BurfieldLionel StanderYoung Jim Hawkins has an unforgettable encounter with pirate Captain Long John Silver and his murderous mates.R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (1882)
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsMickey RooneyWalter ConnollyWilliam FrawleyTo avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.M. Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJuliet BertoDominique LabourierBulle OgierA mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.H. James, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (1885)
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsChristopher ReeveVanessa RedgraveJessica TandyA Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.H. James, The Bostonians (1885–86)
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose HobartDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsBen BarnesColin FirthRebecca HallA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.O. Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- DirectorIan SharpStarsJustine WaddellJason FlemyngOliver MilburnA free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.T. Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
- DirectorTony SmithStarsHelena LittleTim WoodwardStephanie TurnerLord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...O. Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveRichard WattisMichael DenisonWhen Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.O. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsStanislas MerharMarc BarbéAurora MarionThe tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.J. Conrad, Almayer's Folly (1895)
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFrançois TruffautNathalie BayeJean DastéA French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.H, James, The Altar of the Dead (1895)
The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
The Way It Came (1896) - DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCharles LaughtonBela LugosiRichard ArlenA mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsRalph RichardsonTrevor HowardRobert MorleyA man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked after he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.J. Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel DavenportA shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsClaude RainsGloria StuartWilliam HarriganA scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (1897)
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsDeborah KerrPeter WyngardeMegs JenkinsA young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.H. James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes TremayneA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPeter O'TooleJames MasonCurd JürgensAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.J. Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (1901)