Cold Comfort Farm
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
The Martian
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
A Clockwork Orange
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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John Schlesinger
Director
Ian McKellen
as
Amos Starkadder
Kate Beckinsale
as
Flora Poste
Ivan Kaye
as
Reuben Starkadder
Rufus Sewell
as
Seth Starkadder
David Lean
Director
Milo O'Shea
as
Condemned criminal
Jean Simmons
as
Young Estella
Ridley Scott
Director
Kate Mara
as
Beth Johanssen
Matt Damon
as
Mark Watney
Jessica Chastain
as
Melissa Lewis
Ang Lee
Director
Imelda Staunton
as
Charlotte Palmer
Emma Thompson
as
Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet
as
Marianne Dashwood
Hugh Laurie
as
Mr. Palmer
Stanley Kubrick
Director
Malcolm McDowell
as
Alex
John Savident
as
Conspirator
Philip Stone
as
Dad
Carl Duering
as
Dr. Brodsky
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