List of film remakes
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This is a list of film remakes:
- The Amityville Horror (Andrew Douglas; US, 2005) (original film: The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg; US, 1979), based on the novel by Jay Anson)
- Ben-Hur (William Wyler; US, 1959) (original film: Ben-Hur (Sidney Olcott; US, 1907))
- The Birdcage (Mike Nichols; US, 1996) (original film: La Cage aux Folles (Edouard Molinaro; France, 1979))
- Brief Encounter (Alan Bridges; US, 1974) (original film: Brief Encounter (David Lean; UK, 1945), based on the short play "Still Life" by Noel Coward)
- Dawn of the Dead (Zach Synder; US, 2004) (original film: Dawn of the Dead; (George A. Romero; US, 1978)
- Diabolique (Jeremiah S. Chechik; US, 1996) (original film: Diabolique/Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1955) from the novel by Pierre Boileau)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz; US, 1988) (original film: Bedtime Story (Ralph Levy; US, 1964))
- The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan; UK, 1999) (original film: The End of the Affair (Edward Dmytryk; US, 1955))
- A Farewell to Arms (Charles Vidor; US, 1957) (original film: A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage; US, 1932), based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway)
- A Fistful of Dollars/Per un pugno di dollari (Sergio Leone; Italy, 1964) (original film: Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa; Japan, 1961))
- The Front Page (Billy Wilder; US, 1974) (previous film: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, US, 1940)) (original film: The Front Page (Lewis Milestone; US, 1931), from the play by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur)
- Get Carter (Stephen Kay; US, 2000) (original film: Get Carter (Mike Hodges; US, 1971))
- Gone in Sixty Seconds (Dominic Sena; US, 2000) (original film: Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki; US, 1974))
- Hello, Dolly! (Gene Kelly; US, 1969), turned into a musical film (original film: The Matchmaker (Joseph Anthony; US, 1958), from the play by Thornton Wilder)
- Henry V (Kenneth Branagh; UK, 1989) (original film: The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his Battell at Agincourt in France (Laurence Olivier; UK, 1944), from the play by William Shakespeare)
- High Society (Charles Walters; US, 1956), turned into a musical film (original film: The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor; US, 1940), from the play by Philip Barry)
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks; US, 1940) (original film: The Front Page (Lewis Milestone; US, 1931), from the play by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker; US/UK/France 2002) (previous film: The Importance of Being Earnest (Kurt Baker, US, 1992)), (previous film: The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith; UK, 1952) from the play by Oscar Wilde)
- The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray; US, 2003) (original film: The Italian Job (Peter Collinson; UK, 1969)
- The Jackal (Michael Caton-Jones; US, 1997) (original film: The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann; UK/France, 1973) based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth)
- Lolita (Adrian Lyne; US, 1996) (original film: Lolita (Stanley Kubrick; US 1962). (Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov).
- The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges; US, 1960) (original film: Shichinin no samurai (Akira Kurosawa; Japan, 1954)
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston; US, 1941) (original film: The Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth; US, 1931), based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett)
- A Man for All Seasons (Charlton Heston; US, 1988) (original film: A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann; UK, 1966, based on the play by Robert Bolt)
- The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme; US, 2004) (original film: The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer; US, 1962)
- Move Over, Darling (Michael Gordon; US, 1963) (original film: My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin; US, 1940)
- My Fair Lady, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Never Say Never Again, (Irvin Kershner; UK, 1983) (original film: Thunderball (Terence Young; UK, 1965, based on the Ian Fleming novel)
- No Way Out (Roger Donaldson; US, 1987) (original film: The Big Clock (John Farrow; US, 1948), a film noir based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing)
- Ocean's Eleven (US, 1960); Ocean's Eleven (US, 2001)
- The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers; US, 1998) (original film: The Parent Trap (David Swift; US, 1961)
- A Perfect Murder (Andrew Davis; US, 1998) (original film: Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock; US, 1954), based on the stage thriller by Frederick Knott)
- Point of No Return (John Badham; US, 1993) (original film: Nikita (Luc Besson; France, 1990))
- The Preacher's Wife (Penny Marshall; US, 1996) (original film: The Bishop's Wife (Henry Koster; US, 1947))
- Psycho (Gus Van Sant; US, 1998) (original film: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock; US, 1960), based on the novel by Robert Bloch)
- Rear Window (Jeff Bleckner; US, 1998) (original film: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock; US, 1954), based on the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich)
- Rollerball (John McTiernan; US, 2002) (original film: Rollerball (Norman Jewison; US, 1975))
- Sabrina (1995 film) (1995) (origninal film: Sabrina (1954 film)
- Solaris (Steven Soderbergh; US, 2002) (original film: Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky; USSR, 1972))
- Stagecoach (Gordon Douglas; US, 1966) (original film: Stagecoach (John Ford; US, 1939), based on the short story "Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox)
- A Star is Born 1954 and 1976
- State Fair (José Ferrer; US, 1962) (previous film: State Fair (Walter Lang; US, 1945)), turned into a musical film (original film: State Fair (Henry King; US, 1933))
- The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz; US, 2004) (original film: The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes; US, 1975))
- Swept Away (Guy Ritchie; US, 2002) (original film: Swept Away (Lina Wertmüller; Italy, 1974))
- The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. Demille; US, 1956) (original film: The Ten Commandments (Cecile B. Demille; US, 1923))
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel; US, 2003) (original film: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper; US, 1974))
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (Don Sharp; UK, 1978) (previous film: The Thirty-Nine Steps (Ralph Thomas; UK, 1959)), (original film: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock; UK, 1935) based on the novel by John Buchan)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan; US, 1999) (original film: The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison; US, 1968))
- The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme; US, 2002) (original film: Charade (Stanley Donen; US, 1963))
- Village of the Damned (John Carpenter; US, 1995) (original film: Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla; UK, 1960), based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham)
- The Winslow Boy (David Mamet; US/UK, 1999), original film 1948, UK (Anthony Asquith).