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Movies based on books by
Charles Dickens
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movies based on books by
Charles Dickens.
Christmas on the North Pole Express
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A woman named Cassidy rides a train to her small, home town, and explores her past, present, and future in different cars in the train.
TMDB ID: 1121649
Christmas Karma
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
In contemporary London, miserly British-Indian businessman Eshan Sood is compelled by three ghosts to reflect on his life and to consider the needs of those around him.
TMDB ID: 1235246
Spirited
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
TMDB ID: 632856
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
TMDB ID: 572488
Estella Scrooge
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!
TMDB ID: 777893
FX's A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
TMDB ID: 656968
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
TMDB ID: 520900
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 17979
The Old Curiosity Shop
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
TMDB ID: 34873
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 28769
Nicholas Nickleby
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
TMDB ID: 29339
David Copperfield
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
TMDB ID: 141640
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 16716
Oliver Twist
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
TMDB ID: 49146
David Copperfield
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
TMDB ID: 354957
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during nighttime visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
TMDB ID: 10437
Oliver & Company
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Putting its own 'twist' on the story of Oliver Twist, the orange runt of a litter of kittens must fight for survival on the rough streets on New York City, finding unlikely friends in the dogs owned by a down-on-his luck man named Fagin. Soon, Oliver and his new band of comrades must fight for survival when Fagin is unable to pay his debts.
TMDB ID: 12233
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 13189
A Tale of Two Cities
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
TMDB ID: 49249
The Stingiest Man in Town
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.
TMDB ID: 46044
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 46126
Scrooge
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
TMDB ID: 13765
David Copperfield
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
TMDB ID: 131347
A Tale of Two Cities
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
TMDB ID: 4701
The Pickwick Papers
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
TMDB ID: 139204
A Christmas Carol
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
TMDB ID: 25842
A Tale of Two Cities
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
TMDB ID: 17831
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
TMDB ID: 84718
Oliver Twist
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
TMDB ID: 43125
Rich Man's Folly
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
TMDB ID: 528957
Great Expectations
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
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.
TMDB ID: 852638
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The Adventure of the Shooting Party
Based on the book by
Charles Dickens
The lost 3rd part of the film The Pickwick Papers, directed by Laurence Trimble, appeared in 1913. This silent three-reel adaptation of Charles Dickens's first novel starred the American comedian John Bunny, who was very popular in his day but is now almost completely forgotten, and was filmed mainly on location in England.
TMDB ID: 192046