Tag Archives: based on play or musical

On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, ...

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and ...

On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer’s block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from ...

This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye ...

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of ...

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, ...

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and ...

A film version of Genet’s play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as ...

A 12-year-old NYC kid plans the ultimate Bar Mitzvah. However, those plans go to shit when his parents tell him that they’re getting ...

Rick Todd is a struggling artist who lives with his pal Eugene Fullstack who happens to be a writer of children’s stories. Rick would like ...

Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. “Life is a ...

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the ...

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and ...

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide ...

On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an ...

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a “real” career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his ...

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in ...

The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but ...

A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up. but never arrives) and a restless dog ...

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his ...

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare’s play about the English King’s bloody conquest of France.

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn’t stand each other and ...

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim’s parents invite ...

Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have ...

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music ...

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the ...