Movies: Based on play or musical

  • 1940
    Trenck, der Pandur

    Trenck, der Pandur (1940)

    Trenck, der Pandur

    5.21940HD

    Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs....

    Trenck, der Pandur
  • 1912
    Anfisa

    Anfisa (1912)

    Anfisa

    01912HD

    The Kostomarov family falls apart when a female relative joins the household....

    Anfisa
  • 1953
    Remains to Be Seen

    Remains to Be Seen (1953)

    Remains to Be Seen

    5.71953HD

    A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn....

    Remains to Be Seen
  • 1938
    The World Where One Goes Begging

    The World Where One Goes Begging (1938)

    The World Where One Goes Begging

    01938HD

    The smooth narration, corresponding to the requirements of a light comedy, develops the smiling and optimistic story of the "one-armed" beggar Dostál, who earned enough money with his excellent begging skills to buy a nice house, become a respectable...

    The World Where One Goes Begging
  • 1955
    Othello

    Othello (1955)

    Othello

    8.51955HD

    The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the first televised version of the play to feature a black actor in the title role. Gordon Heath, an Amer...

    Othello
  • 1975
    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    4.31975HD

    Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them....

    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
  • 1965
    Kubo

    Kubo (1965)

    Kubo

    8.51965HD

    Charming country girl Anička Košáriková and the handsome Paľo share a tender, mutual affection, until Anička’s recently widowed mother forbids the match. Paľo is the son of the former steward who once fell on hard times while serving the Košárik fami...

    Kubo
  • 2015
    The Lives We Lead

    The Lives We Lead (2015)

    The Lives We Lead

    5.32015HD

    Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period....

    The Lives We Lead
  • 1985
    Titus Andronicus

    Titus Andronicus (1985)

    Titus Andronicus

    7.51985HD

    Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. Acco...

    Titus Andronicus
  • 1969
    Busybody

    Busybody (1969)

    Busybody

    6.81969HD

    In a large office building, a mysterious murder is committed, after which the body disappears. Lily Hansen, the building's helpful and talkative cleaning lady, is driving the detective investigating the case crazy with her interference. Of course, th...

    Busybody
  • 2007
    Casa de remolienda

    Casa de remolienda (2007)

    Casa de remolienda

    22007HD

    Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married....

    Casa de remolienda
  • 1915
    Vanyushin's Children

    Vanyushin's Children (1915)

    Vanyushin's Children

    01915HD

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    Vanyushin's Children
  • 1978
    Natalka Poltavka

    Natalka Poltavka (1978)

    Natalka Poltavka

    11978HD

    An iconic Ukrainian play of the same name meets TV....

    Natalka Poltavka
  • 2016
    Othello

    Othello (2016)

    Othello

    02016HD

    The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago....

    Othello
  • 1974
    Cid

    Cid (1974)

    Cid

    01974HD

    Ximéná and Rodrigo love each other, but in order to remain worthy of each other, they decide to fulfill the command of honor. Don Rodrigo avenges the insult that Ximéná's father caused his father, and Ximéná asks the king to punish Rodrigo. The king ...

    Cid
  • 1994
    El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?

    El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche? (1994)

    El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?

    4.31994HD

    The argument between Enrique and Javier, his best friend and Marta's husband, his lover, ends with the accidental death of Javier. Faced with the difficulty of proving his innocence, Enrique decides to start, along with Marta and the corpse of Javier...

    El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
  • 1944
    Up in Mabel's Room

    Up in Mabel's Room (1944)

    Up in Mabel's Room

    61944HD

    Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's roo...

    Up in Mabel's Room
  • 1965
    Las brujas de Salem

    Las brujas de Salem (1965)

    Las brujas de Salem

    101965HD

    Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective hysteria is born and spreads rapidly through the village as if it were a plague, causing a chain of tragic...

    Las brujas de Salem
  • 1923
    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)

    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    01923HD

    A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes.....

    The Famous Mrs. Fair
  • 1951
    La Leona de Castilla

    La Leona de Castilla (1951)

    La Leona de Castilla

    5.31951HD

    Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the i...

    La Leona de Castilla