Films
- 10 Things I Hate About You – William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew re-located to modern suburbia
- Apocalypse Now - Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War
- Bride and Prejudice - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Bridget Jones's Diary – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- A Cinderella Story - Cinderella in modern Los Angeles
- Carmen: A Hip Hopera - Carmen
- Carmen Jones - Carmen
- Clueless – based on Jane Austen's Emma but set in modern California among valley girls
- Coriolanus - a 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes. Set in modern times; using the original dialogue
- Crime and Punishment in Suburbia – Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment set in a suburban high school.
- Cruel Intentions - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses set among wealthy teenagers in modern New York City.
- Damn Yankees - Faust
- The Dark Knight Rises - based loosely on A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
- Dracula 2000 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Easy A - a self-referential adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter set in a modern high school.
- Ever After – Cinderella
- Freeway - Modernized Little Red Riding Hood movie whereas "hood" is a slang term referring to a low-income urban neighborhood.
- From Prada to Nada - Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility set in modern Los Angeles.
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens' Great Expectations set in modern Florida
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare's Hamlet set in modern Manhattan
- The Hours - self-referential adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- A Midsummer Night's Rave – William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the rave scene
- My Own Private Idaho - William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V
- O – retelling of William Shakespeare's Othello in a private school
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Homer's Odyssey adapted to the 1930s American South
- Pretty Woman - Pygmalion
- Rent - La Boheme
- Romeo + Juliet – William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet adapted for modern California; used mostly the original dialogue
- Scotland, PA – William Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Scotland, Pennsylvania
- Scrooged – Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1980s Manhattan.
- She's All That – Pygmalion
- She's the Man – William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will re-located to modern suburbia
- A Simple Twist of Fate - George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
- Spike – Cupid and Psyche, Hades and Persephone, Beauty and the Beast
- Sydney White - Snow White
- Tempest - William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Trishna - Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Tromeo and Juliet – A modern, punk adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roxanne - Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
- West Side Story - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Whatever It Takes - Cyrano de Bergerac
Read more about this topic: List Of Modernized Retellings Of Old Stories
Famous quotes containing the word films:
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
—Andy Warhol (c. 1928–1987)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)