Films adapted into operas

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror () is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

2006 film by Davis Guggenheim

1920 film by Robert Wiene

2000 film by Lars von Trier

1946 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1997 film by David Lynch

1994 film by Michael Radford

1986 film by David Cronenberg

2005 film by Christian Carion

1964 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1961 Italian film

1945 British film directed by David Lean

1978 film by Ingmar Bergman

1996 film by Lars von Trier

1998 film by Thomas Vinterberg

1962 film by Luis Buñuel

1946 film by Jean Cocteau, René Clément

Teorema (English: "Theorem") is a 1968 Italian allegorical art film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film centers on an upper-class Milanese family who are introduced to, and then abandoned by, an otherworldly man with a mysterious divine force. Themes include the timelessness of divinity and the spiritual corruption of the bourgeoisie.

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick

1915 film by Cecil B. DeMille

1978 film by Robert Altman

1978 film by Federico Fellini

1960 Indian Bengali drama film directed by Satyajit Ray

2004 film directed by Susanne Bier

1964 film by Bryan Forbes

1996 film by Zhou Xiaowen