American films based on plays

M. Butterfly

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 6.7

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

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Proof

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends in...

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The Littlest Rebel

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1935 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the offi...

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Sordid Lives

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 6.7

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spe...

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The Reluctant Debutante

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never...

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Toys in the Attic

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sister...

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Anna Christie

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1923 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither know...

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The Racket

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all att...

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