Best Adaptations of Each Dickens Novel
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- StarsDaniel RadcliffeTrevor EvePauline QuirkeA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- StarsDavid ThrelfallAlun ArmstrongRoger ReesA young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- StarsBen RodskaEric PorterMichael AttwellAn orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
- StarsEmma ChambersJulia SawalhaKeith AllenOld Martin Chuzzlewit is nearing his death. Who will inherit his riches? With such a prize to play for, the Chuzzlewit family bring forth all of their cunning, greed and selfishness. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
- StarsPaul McGannKeeley HawesDominic MafhamIntertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
- StarsDenholm ElliottSuzanne BurdenJonathan MooreThe great case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce drags on, an obsession to all involved. Then a question of inheritance becomes a question of murder.
- StarsMatthew MacfadyenClaire FoyTom CourtenayThe Dorrits are a family whose life revolves around the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. Amy Dorrit's kind nature brings the family into contact with a wide swath of English society, from the poorest to the richest, and back again.
- DirectorStuart WalkerStarsClaude RainsDouglass MontgomeryHeather AngelAn opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
- StarsGerry SundquistTim MunroDerek FrancisA humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- StarsJohn WoodBarbara HicksNewton BlickMurder mystery interwoven with the historical events of England's Gordon riots of 1780, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
- StarsSebastian ShawTrevor PeacockNatalie OgleThe story of Nell Trent, a beautiful young girl. An orphan, she lives with her Grandfather in The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsReginald OwenGene LockhartKathleen LockhartAn elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
- StarsHarriet WalterBill PatersonAlan BatesIn the first part of this adaptation by Peter Barnes, we are introduced to Tom and Louisa.
- DirectorJacqui MorrisStarsThea AchilleaRuby McMillan-WilsonOliver John LockA radical animated retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm.