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Robert Donat as Hannay

• 39 Steps, The (1935)

• 39 Steps, The (1959)

• 39 Steps, The (2008)

Rathbone as Holmes

The
Adventures
of Sherlock
Holmes

• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

• Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The

• Adventures of Long John Silver, The

• Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (1939)

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (1954–1955)

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (1984–1985)

• Alias Grace

• And Then There Were None (1945)

• And Then There Were None (2015)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

• Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

• Another Thin Man

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet
on the
Western
Front

Butler as Beowulf

Beowulf &
Grendel

• Beowulf (1999)

• Beowulf (1999)

• Beowulf (2007)

• Beowulf (2007)

• Beowulf & Grendel

• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands

• Big Sleep, The (1946)

• Big Sleep, The (1978)

• Black Bird, The

• Blackadder's Christmas Carol

• Bleak House (1985)

• Bleak House (2005)

• Bloom, or Bl.,m

• Bonfire of the Vanities, The

• Bram Stoker's Dracula

• Bride of Frankenstein

• Brideshead Revisited

• Brides of Dracula, The

Oldman as Dracula

Bram
Stoker's
Dracula

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas
Carol

• Case of the Whitechapel Vampire, The

• Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The (1991–1993)

• Christmas Carol, A (1951)

• Christmas Carol, A (1984)

• Christmas Carol, A (1997)

• Cock and Bull Story, A

• Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A

• Curse of Frankenstein, The

David Copperfield

David
Copperfield

• Dangerous Female

• David Copperfield (1935)

• David Copperfield (1999)

• David Copperfield (2000)

• Day of the Locust, The

• Death in Venice

• Diviners, The

• Dorian Gray

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)

• Dracula (1931)

• Drácula (1931)

• Dracula (1958)

• Dracula (1979)

• Dracula (1992)

• Dracula (2006)

• Dracula 2000

• Dracula AD 1972

• Dracula Has Risen From the Grave

• Dracula's Daughter

• Dracula: Dead and Loving It

• Dracula: Prince of Darkness

• Dressed to Kill

• Dune (1984)

Huston in The Dead

James Dean as Cal Trask

• East of Eden (1955)

• East of Eden (1981)

• Eligible Bachelor, The

• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

• Emma (1996)

• Emma (2009)

• Ender's Game

• Eye of the Needle

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell
to Arms

• Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth

• Falcon Takes Over, The

• Far from the Madding Crowd

• Farewell, My Lovely (1944)

• Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

• Farewell to Arms, A

• Father Brown (1944)

• Father Brown (2013–present)

• Father Brown, Detective

• Felicia's Journey

• Flesh for Frankenstein

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Frankenstein

• Frankenstein and Me

• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

• Frankenstein Unbound

• French Lieutenant's Woman, The

Karloff as Frankenstein's monster

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes
of Wrath

• Golden Years of Sherlock Holmes, The

• Ghost of Frankenstein, The

• Good Earth, The

• Grapes of Wrath, The

• Great Expectations (1946)

• Great Expectations (1981)

• Great Expectations (1989)

• Great Expectations (1998)

• Great Expectations (1999)

Hamlet 1948

• Hamlet (1948)

• Hamlet (1969)

• Hamlet (1990, Zeffirelli)

• Hamlet (1990, Kline)

• Hamlet (1996)

• Hamlet (2000)

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• Handmaid's Tale, The

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (1981)

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)

• Horror of Dracula

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939)

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1982)

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1988)

• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (2000)

• House of Frankenstein

• House of Dracula

• House of Fright

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981

The
Hitchhiker's
Guide to the
Galaxy

• I Am Legend

• I, Frankenstein

• Incident at Victoria Falls

• Jane Eyre (1943)

• Jane Eyre (1983)

• Jane Eyre (1997)

• Jane Eyre (2006)

• Jane Eyre (2011)

• Jekyll and Hyde

• Jekyll and Hyde: Direct From Broadway

• Joe MacBeth

• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1989)

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2008b)

• Julius Caesar

Jekyll and Hyde 1990

Jekyll and
Hyde

• Kidnapped (1948)

• Kidnapped (1971)

• Kidnapped (2005)

Depp as Ichabod Crane

The Legend
of Sleepy
Hollow

• Lady in the Lake

• Last Days of Pompeii, The (1913)

• Last Days of Pompeii, The (1935)

• Last Man on Earth, The

• Last Vampyre, The

• Legend of Earthsea

• Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The

• Little Foxes, The

• Lolita (1962)

• Lolita (1997)

• Long Goodbye, The

• Long John Silver

• Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island

• Love at First Bite

DaVis in Little Foxes

Bogart as Sam Spade

The Maltese
Falcon

• Macbeth (1948)

• Macbeth (1971)

• Maltese Falcon, The (1931)

• Maltese Falcon, The (1941)

• Man Who Would Be King, The

• Mansfield Park (1983)

• Mansfield Park (1999)

• Mansfield Park (2007)

• Marlowe (1969)

• Marlowe (2022)

• Mary Reilly

• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• Masks of Death, The

• Master Blackmailer, The

• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The (1994)

• Mildred Pierce (1945)

• Mildred Pierce (2011)

• Mill on the Floss, The

• Miss Robin Crusoe

• Mrs Dalloway

• Murder at the Baskervilles

• Murder by Decree

• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

• Murder on the Orient Express (2010)

• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

• Murder, My Sweet

• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

• Murders in the Rue Morgue, The (1986)

Crawford as Mildred Pierce

Hunnam as Nicholas

Nicholas
Nickleby

• Naked and the Dead, The

• Nicholas Nickleby

• Nosferatu the Vampire

Malkovich as Lenny

Of Mice and
Men

• Of Mice and Men (1939)

• Of Mice and Men (1992)

• Old Man and the Sea, The (1958)

• Old Man and the Sea, The (1990)

• Old Man and the Sea, The (1999)

• Oliver Twist (1922)

• Oliver Twist (1933)

• Oliver Twist (1948)

• Oliver Twist (2005)

• Oliver Twist (2007)

• Omega Man, The

• On the Beach

• Our Town (1940)

• Our Town (2003)

Coogan as Oliver

Hatfield as Dorian Gray

The Picture
of Dorian
Gray

• Paul's Case

• Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, The

• Phantom of the Rue Morgue

• Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)

• Picture of Dorian Gray, The (2009)

• Poodle Springs

• Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1948)

• Postman Always Rings Twice, The (2011)

• Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The

• Pride and Prejudice (1995)

• Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Colin Firth as Darcy

Pride and
Prejudice

The Red
Badge of
Courage

• Red Badge of Courage, The

• Revenge of Frankenstein, The

• Return of Sherlock Holmes, The (1929)

• Return of Sherlock Holmes, The (1986–1988)

• Return to Treasure Island

• Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

• Riverworld (2003)

• Riverworld (2010)

• Robinson Crusoe

• Robinson Crusoe on Mars

• Royal Scandal, A

O'Herlihy as Crusoe

Robinson
Crusoe

Brett as Holmes

Sherlock
Holmes

• Satan Met a Lady

• Satanic Rites of Dracula, The

• Scarlet Claw, The

• Scars of Dracula

• Scrooge (1935)

• Scrooge (1951)

• Scrooge (1970)

• The Secret Agent (1992(

• The Secret Agent (1996)

• The Secret Agent (2016)

• Sense and Sensibility (1981)

• Sense and Sensibility (1995)

• Sense and Sensibility (2008)

• Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The

• Shadow of the Thin Man

• Shadow of the Vampire

• Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Sherlock: Case of Evil

• Sherlock Holmes (1922)

• Sherlock Holmes (1932)

• Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)

• Sherlock Holmes (2009)

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

• Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

• Sign of Four, The (1932)

• Sign of Four, The (1987)

• Sign of Four, The (2001)

• Sleeping Cardinal, The

• Sleepy Hollow

• Snows of Kilimanjaro, The

• Son of Dracula

• Son of Frankenstein

• Song of the Thin Man

• Speckled Band, The

• Stingiest Man in Town, The

• Stone Angel, The

• Study in Scarlet, A

• Study in Terror, A

• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Gregory Peck in Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows
of
Kilimanjaro

Jones as Nicole

Tender Is
the Night

• Taste the Blood of Dracula

• Ten Little Indians (1959)

• Ten Little Indians (1989)

• Tender Is the Night

• Terror by Night

• Thin Man, The

• Thin Man Goes Home, The

• 13th Warrior, The

• Thirty-Nine Steps, The

• Throne of Blood

• Tragedy of Macbeth, The

• Treasure Island (1934)

• Treasure Island (1950)

• Tristram Shandy

• Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, The

• Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The

Newton as Silver

Treasure
Island

Wuthering Heights

The Woman
in White

• When Time Began

• William Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Without a Clue

• Woman in Green, The

• Woman in White, The

• Woman in White, The

• Wuthering Heights (1939)

• Wuthering Heights (1992)

• Wuthering Heights (2009)

• Wuthering Heights (2022)

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering
Heights

• Young Frankenstein

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