Dickens biography 2011 movies

Cast Jackie Coogan, James A. Director Frank Lloyd. Main Genre Drama.

Dickens biography 2011 movies

Image via Paramount Pictures. Scrooged PG Release Date November 23, Pollard, Alfre Woodard. Director Richard Donner. Image via Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A Christmas Carol Not Rated. Release Date December 16, Runtime 69 Minutes. Cast Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart. Director Edwin L. Image via 20th Century Studios. Great Expectations R. Release Date January 30, Runtime Minutes.

Image via Loew's Inc. David Copperfield NR. Release Date January 18, Director George Cukor. Image via Rank Film Distributors. A Tale of Two Cities Drama. Release Date February 7, Director Ralph Thomas. Image via BBC One. Image via CBS. A Christmas Carol PG. Release Date December 17, Cast George C. Scott , Frank Finlay. Director Clive Donner.

Image via Searchlight Pictures. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Release Date August 28, Director Armando Iannucci. Scrooge G. Release Date November 5, Director Ronald Neame. Image via Columbia Pictures. Charles Dickens Movies. List activity. Our Mutual Friend. Young man's fortune contingent on marrying stranger. Many scheme to claim it, reducing him to fight for her as a secretary.

Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in s London. Mystery of Edwin Drood. An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In the version of Great Expectations , Steven Knight lends his accuracy more to history than the novel.

More specifically, he blends the story with the Opium Wars of the setting. Conservative readers of the family-friendly classic weren't too pleased to watch everyone getting high or spanked, but at least it was carried off with style—visually, thematically, and narratively. Steven Knight has a unique way of combining style with his love of dark period dramas, as evidenced by his work on other period drama series like Peaky Blinders , Taboo , and 's A Christmas Carol.

Some critics found Knight to be "trying too hard" with this one. But in a genre as crammed as Dickens adaptations, what hope do you have for standing out if you don't do something really unique? This is the last Scrooge film on our list, we promise! Although in this one, he isn't called Scrooge—he's called Frank. But as you can guess from the title, Frank is himself "Scrooged" by three ghosts.

Bill Murray puts his own Bill Murray spin on the famously selfish protagonist, able to make viewers laugh with even the simplest of facial expressions. Meanwhile, Richard Donner's frantic modern retelling is bursting with energy and wit as it explores Frank's weird experiences. Scrooged avoids showering the audience with too much sentimentality, meaning it's that much more effective when it wraps up.

Here's one for the truest of true Charles Dickens fans. A wholly unique and original concept, Dickensian is a BBC series that combines all your favorite Dickens characters into one brilliant show. In the style of the author's own writing—who loved to interweave myriad characters— Dickensian is one big Victorian web as protagonists from one book cross paths with those from other books.

And who should he happen across? Well, everyone! From Bill Sikes to Miss Havisham. With its beautiful 19th century setting studded with beloved characters, Dickensian went down a treat with UK viewers. A classic musical that pretty much everyone on the planet has seen, Oliver! Mark Lester plays the title role of a young orphan who escapes the workhouse to become a street urchin.

Step into the grime, violence, and hardship of Dickens's Victorian London as it's soothed over by joyous singing and dancing. Buy Now. Pretty much any Dickens movie requires a large cast—so many characters, so much drama—and this adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby has a stellar lineup: Nathan Lane, Christopher Plummer, Anne Hathaway, and Alan Cumming all star, with Charlie Hunnam in the title role.

After Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly having lost all of his money Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their middle class life in Devonshire and travel to London to plead for help from their wealthy, but cold, uncle Ralph. The movie, which also stars Alfre Woodard and Carol Kane, has developed of a cult following around the holidays—it's something like an anti It's a Wonderful Life — and even more than 30 years after its release remains a perfect example of the timelessness of Dickens's tale.

Carey Mulligan, Gillian Anderson, and Timothy West lead an all-star cast in this part adaptation of Dicken's novel about a rogue's gallery of characters tied together tangentially by some questionable wills. It's a visually lush production that gives new life to the twisting, turning, totally absorbing story—and it hit big with audiences and critics alike, earning 10 Emmy nominations.

Before Clare Foy played Queen Elizabeth on The Crown , she played the title role in this adaptation of Little Dorrit , Dickens's rags-to-riches and over again story of a woman raised in a debtor's prison and her complex, fascinating life. The series, which gave the story a visually lush depiction of Dickens's story albeit with an ending that veered a bit from what purists might have expected, was a hit, earning four Emmy Awards for categories including art direction, cinematography, and costumes.

This upcoming adaptation from Armando Iannucci creator of Veep and director of In the Loop and The Death of Stalin is humorous, energetic, and stylish. A Complete List of the Oscar Nominations.