Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "british-children's-literature-on-screen"

1. Wonka (2023)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

7.0

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66 Metascore

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.

Director: Paul King | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur, Paul G. Raymond

Votes: 141,736

2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

7.8

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67 Metascore

A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 227,573 | Gross: $4.00M

3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

6.7

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72 Metascore

Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 529,652 | Gross: $206.46M

4. Matilda (1996)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

7.0

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72 Metascore

A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 174,805 | Gross: $33.08M

5. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

7.9

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83 Metascore

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman

Votes: 270,690 | Gross: $21.00M

6. Matilda: The Musical (II) (2022)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.0

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72 Metascore

An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham

Votes: 28,337

7. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

6.9

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64 Metascore

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill

Votes: 50,747 | Gross: $7.50M

8. The Witches (2020)

PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

5.4

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47 Metascore

A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock

Votes: 46,625 | Gross: $0.20M

9. The BFG (2016)

PG | 117 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

6.3

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66 Metascore

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement

Votes: 93,313 | Gross: $55.48M

10. James and the Giant Peach (1996)

PG | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

6.7

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78 Metascore

An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.

Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow

Votes: 74,043 | Gross: $28.93M

11. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

6.7

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73 Metascore

Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.

Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman

Votes: 51,458 | Gross: $31.05M

12. Alice (1988)

Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

7.4

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A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power

Votes: 14,003

13. The BFG (1989)

91 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

6.7

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A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.

Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley

Votes: 7,510

14. Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015 TV Movie)

88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

6.9

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A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor who only shows affection to her pet tortoise.

Director: Dearbhla Walsh | Stars: James Corden, Salo Gardner, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Cordery

Votes: 5,523

15. Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017 Video)

Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

4.9

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The classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

Director: Spike Brandt | Stars: JP Karliak, Jess Harnell, Lincoln Melcher, Mick Wingert

Votes: 1,483

16. Danny the Champion of the World (1989 TV Movie)

99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

6.7

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64 Metascore

Somewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local ... See full summary »

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 1,481

17. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family

7.3

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An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 2,521

18. Kalle och chokladfabriken (1983– )

Family

8.3

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Berättad av Ernst Hugo Järdegård utifrån tecknade stillbilder.

Star: Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Votes: 31

19. Revolting Rhymes (2016)

29 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

7.8

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Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Stars: Dominic West, Rose Leslie, Gemma Chan, Rob Brydon

Votes: 652

20. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (2012 Video)

7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

5.7

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Stars: Jessica Fildes, James Fildes

Votes: 38

21. The Magic Finger (1990 TV Movie)

25 min | Animation

5.7

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When the Magic Finger is put upon the Gregg family for shooting some ducks, only the inventive imagination of Roald Dahl could have devised the events which take place.

Star: Anne Clements

Votes: 13

22. James and the Giant Peach (1976 TV Movie)

45 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

6.3

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A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.

Director: Paul Stone | Stars: Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, Ann Beach, Arthur Hewlett

Votes: 16

23. The Talking Parcel (1978 TV Movie)

Unrated | 40 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

8.0

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A little girl finds an odd parcel on the seashore, and in It a talking parrot who takes her on an epic journey to a fantasy land called Mythologia to rescue a wizard imprisoned by an evil cockatrice. They must gather allies along the way.

Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: Lisa Norris, Freddie Jones, Mollie Sugden, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 85

24. Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966)

G | 52 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

5.0

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After Wonderland, Alice dreams of going to Paris. A mouse named Francois, the grandson of Anatole, agrees to take her there if she will tell him her favorite cheese. Along the way they share several stories.

Director: Gene Deitch | Stars: Luce Ennis, Norma MacMillan, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner

Votes: 216