The Top 100 Based-on-19th-Century-Literature Movies of All Time

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The Top 100 Based-on-19th-Century-Literature Movies of All Time
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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9 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
61 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
159 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming NR -
212 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale NR -
229 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick PG -
281 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton NR -
306 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale NR -
419 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale NR -
457 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston PG -
491 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen R -
626 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning NR -
758 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
800 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa NR -
883 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler NR -
911 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler NR -
929 Little Women 2019 Greta Gerwig PG -
930 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements, John Musker G -
950 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
991 Island of Lost Souls 1932 Erle C. Kenton NR -
994 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand NR -
1098 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean NR -
1100 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann R -
1172 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1248 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava NR -
1303 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi G -
1366 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian NR -
1375 Scrooged 1988 Richard Donner PG13 -
1457 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton R -
1458 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske G -
1471 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee PG -
1489 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal G -
1504 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer G -
1594 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin G -
1685 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola R -
1692 House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman NR -
1711 Pride and Prejudice 1995 Simon Langton NR -
1737 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler NR -
1738 Drácula 1931 George Melford NR -
1804 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher NR -
1825 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman NR -
1868 Easy A 2010 Will Gluck PG13 -
1911 The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 Brian Henson G -
1991 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle NR -
2002 The Body Snatcher 1945 Robert Wise NR -
2076 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling PG13 -
2145 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Albert Lewin NR -
2153 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean NR -
2170 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed G -
2176 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright PG -
2200 Moby Dick 1956 John Huston NR -
2215 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper PG13 -
2390 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman NR -
2399 The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 Kevin Reynolds PG13 -
2407 Beau Travail 1999 Claire Denis NR -
2439 Sherlock: A Study in Pink 2010 Paul McGuigan NR -
2476 A Christmas Carol 1951 Brian Desmond Hurst NR -
2525 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer NR -
2589 The Invisible Man 2020 Leigh Whannell R -
2744 The Three Musketeers 1973 Richard Lester PG -
2746 Tess 1979 Roman Polanski PG -
2802 Jane Eyre 2011 Cary Joji Fukunaga PG13 -
2833 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin G -
2834 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath PG -
2841 Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959 Henry Levin G -
2875 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 1949 Jack Kinney, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi G -
2939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 Wallace Worsley NR -
2946 Little Women 1933 George Cukor NR -
2979 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong PG -
3006 Jane Eyre 1943 Robert Stevenson NR -
3075 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925 Fred Niblo NR -
3116 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
3179 Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall 2012 Toby Haynes NR -
3213 Muppet Treasure Island 1996 Brian Henson G -
3331 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway NR -
3528 The Raven 1963 Roger Corman NR -
3545 The Vampire Lovers 1970 Roy Ward Baker R -
3586 War and Peace 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk NR -
3588 Queen Margot 1994 Patrice Chéreau R -
3593 Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia 2012 Paul McGuigan NR -
3617 The Four Musketeers 1974 Richard Lester PG -
3651 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022 Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson NR -
3652 Treasure Island 1950 Byron Haskin PG -
3689 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise NR -
3708 Tales of Terror 1962 Roger Corman NR -
3717 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Jean Epstein NR -
3802 Treasure Planet 2002 Ron Clements, John Musker PG -
3804 The Doll 1919 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
3805 La belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette NR -
3897 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel PG -
3935 Dracula 1979 John Badham R -
3983 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Michael Anderson G -
4072 The Three Musketeers 1993 Stephen Herek PG -
4079 The Man in the Iron Mask 1998 Randall Wallace PG13 -
4090 Les Misérables 1934 Raymond Bernard NR -
4120 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 Victor Fleming NR -
4139 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard NR -
4177 The Jungle Book 2016 Jon Favreau PG -
4244 Scrooge 1970 Ronald Neame G -
4310 Mansfield Park 1999 Patricia Rozema PG13 -
4312 Tales From the Darkside: The Movie 1990 John Harrison R -

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