Cult Fiction: Roald Dahl
Films & Series based on books by Roald Dahl
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- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsAnne HathawayOctavia SpencerStanley TucciA young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
- DirectorMatthew WarchusStarsAlisha WeirEmma ThompsonLashana LynchAn adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
- DirectorMel StuartStarsGene WilderJack AlbertsonPeter OstrumA poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppFreddie HighmoreDavid KellyCharlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsJames GarnerEva Marie SaintRod TaylorGermans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
- DirectorBrian CosgroveStarsDavid JasonAmanda RootAngela ThorneA young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMark RylanceRuby BarnhillPenelope WiltonAn orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsJeremy IronsRobbie ColtraneSamuel IronsSomewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer named Victor Hazell wants to buy. When he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto them, they decide to get even with him and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsGeorge ClooneyMeryl StreepBill MurrayAn urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
- DirectorAllison AndersAlexandre RockwellRobert RodriguezStarsTim RothAntonio BanderasSammi DavisFour interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.
- DirectorHenry SelickStarsPaul TerryJoanna LumleyPete PostlethwaiteAn orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
- StarsDominic WestRose LeslieGemma ChanTwo half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
- StarsTimothy WestPrunella ScalesSix of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold with some amusing twists by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
- DirectorSpike BrandtStarsJP KarliakJess HarnellLincoln MelcherThe classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsAnjelica HustonMai ZetterlingJasen FisherA young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesBenedict CumberbatchDev PatelChronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
- DirectorPaul KingStarsTimothée ChalametGustave DieMurray McArthurWith dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRupert FriendRalph FiennesAsa JenningsA small brilliant boy is tormented by two large idiotic bullies.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsDanny DeVitoRhea PerlmanMara WilsonA girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsDev PatelBenedict CumberbatchRalph FiennesWhen a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRichard AyoadeRalph FiennesRupert FriendIn an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a rat catcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.