From Victor Hugo`s classic French novel of the nineteenth century to Tom Hooper`s award winning blockbuster, Les Misérables has undergone one of the most successful transitions from book to stage to screen. In this new documentary, the scintillating journey of Hugo`s universal story is traced from book to stage to screen with contributions from those who have starred in and helped to create the entertainment phenomenon which has captured a place in everyone`s hearts. Helmed by entertainment and celebrity journalist Neil Sean, this insightful documentary traces the events of the Paris insurrection in 1832 and features excerpts from the restored 1978 Les Misérables lm starring Anthony Perkins alongside interviews with Frances Ruffelle, Hugh Jackman, Nick Jonas, Tom Hooper, Alfie Boe, Amanda Seyfried, Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Anne Hathaway.

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

2016

German

6.7

♡ 6

90%

third reich (iii reich 1933-45)

woman director

writer

Maria Schrader Director

Cristina do Rego as Alzira Vargas

Tómas Lemarquis as Reporter Lefèvre

Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Reporter Sanchez

Lenn Kudrjawizki as Samuel Malamud

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Albatross

2011

English

6.3

♡ 8

54%

Niall MacCormick Director

Felicity Jones as Beth

Julia Ormond as Joa

Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Mark

Justin Edwards as Policeman

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Gothic

1986

English

5.7

♡ 15

60%

Ken Russell Director

Timothy Spall as Dr. Polidori

Dexter Fletcher as Rushton

Julian Sands as Shelley

Ken Russell as Tourist

Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Flannery

2019

English

7.3

♡ 3

74%

documentary filmmaking

Mark Bosco Director

Mary Steenburgen as Flannery

Conan O'Brien as Self

Tommy Lee Jones as Self

Brad Dourif as Self

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals, and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als, and more.

The Moulin

2015

Japanese

6.8

♡ 1

Ya-li Huang Director

Yu-Tien Ho as Chang Dian-Liang

Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.

Unfaithful

2002

English

6.7

♡ 105

51%

Adrian Lyne Director

Erich Anderson as Bob Gaylord

Diane Lane as Connie Sumner

Richard Gere as Ed Sumner

Leslie Shenkel as Uncle Les

Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.

Howl

2010

English

6.6

♡ 7

64%

Rob Epstein Director

James Franco as Allen Ginsberg

Mary-Louise Parker as Gail Potter

Jon Hamm as Jake Ehrlich

Anna Kuchma as Six Gallery Audience Member

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

The Brontë Sisters

1979

French

6.5

♡ 4

André Téchiné Director

Peter Martin as

Isabelle Huppert as Anne Brontë

Marie-France Pisier as Charlotte Brontë

Isabelle Adjani as Emily Brontë

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

The Jane Austen Book Club

2007

English

6.7

♡ 11

66%

older woman seduces younger guy

parent child relationship

Romance

Robin Swicord Director

Maggie Grace as Allegra

Hugh Dancy as Grigg

Maria Bello as Jocelyn

Emily Blunt as Prudie

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.

The Capote Tapes

2019

English

7.0

♡ 1

manhattan, new york city

new york city

portrait of an artist

writer

Ebs Burnough Director

Colm Tóibín as Self

Truman Capote as Self

Lauren Bacall as Self

George Plimpton as Self - Journalist

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

Heavenly Creatures

1994

English

7.2

♡ 58

95%

83%

Action

based on a true story

Peter Jackson Director

Peter Jackson as Bum Outside Theater

Clive Merrison as Dr. Henry Hulme

Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme

Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

The Class

2008

French

7.5

♡ 6

95%

Laurent Cantet Director

Farida Ouchani as

Céline Spang as Déléguée de parents d'élèves

Louise Grinberg as Louise

Rabah Nait Oufella as Rabah

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The Skulls II

2002

English

4.7

♡ 3

24%

Joe Chappelle Director

Lindy Booth as Kelly

Aaron Ashmore as Matt Hutchinson

Sandi Ross as Mrs. Beckford

Edie Inksetter as Restaurant Manager

After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or its high-powered members. However, when Ryan witnesses a murder within the Skulls' private chambers, he finds that the closer he gets to revealing the truth - the more dangerous life becomes.

Best Sellers

2021

English

6.2

♡ 26

53%

Lina Roessler Director

Veronica Ferres as Drew Davis

Michael Caine as Harris Shaw

Scott Speedman as Jack Sinclair

Aubrey Plaza as Lucy Stanbridge

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

Shadowlands

1993

English

7.3

♡ 15

100%

Richard Attenborough Director

Peter Firth as Dr. Craig

Julian Firth as Father John Fisher

Anthony Hopkins as Jack Lewis

James Frain as Peter Whistler

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

Stranger Than Fiction

2006

English

7.5

♡ 84

73%

Marc Forster Director

Bruce Jarchow as Commuter

Andrew Rothenberg as Doctor Mercator

Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel

Dustin Hoffman as Professor Jules Hilbert

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

Sebastian

2024

English

6.7

♡ 18

76%

Mikko Makela Director

Leanne Best as Dionne

Julian Firth as Ian

Akbar Kurtha as Samir

Orlando Norman as Theo

Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.