Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Lionel Bart, Vernon Harris, Charles Dickens
Cast
Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis
Plot
After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver T...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Brian Desmond Hurst
Writer
Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
Cast
Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Plot
Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Writer
Charles Dickens, W.P. Lipscomb, S.N. Behrman
Cast
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver
Plot
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA, UK • Language: English
Director
Brian Henson
Writer
Charles Dickens, Jerry Juhl
Cast
Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire
Plot
The Muppets put their spin on the tale of an elder, Christmas-hating miser who is visited by spirits who foretell his future and share secrets from his past and present, which helps change his view on life.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Czech, UK • Language: English
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Charles Dickens, Ronald Harwood
Cast
Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift
Plot
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Writer
Charles Dickens, Robert Zemeckis
Cast
Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Plot
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old moneylender is visited by three Christmas spirits on Christmas Eve. Scrooge embarks on a journey of self-redemption to mend his miserly ways
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: UK, USA • Language: English
Director
Ronald Neame
Writer
Charles Dickens, Leslie Bricusse
Cast
Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans
Plot
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Alfonso Cuarón
Writer
Charles Dickens, Mitch Glazer
Cast
Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria
Plot
Modernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Henry Edwards
Writer
Charles Dickens, H. Fowler Mear
Cast
Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran
Plot
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Ralph Thomas
Writer
Charles Dickens, T.E.B. Clarke
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker
Plot
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: USA • Language: English, Japanese
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Rod Serling, Charles Dickens
Cast
Percy Rodrigues, Sterling Hayden, Ben Gazzara
Plot
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
