Drama

1948

NR

Plot: The second of director David Leans adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a ...

Drama

2005

PG13

Plot: Director Roman Polanski gives one of Charles Dickens best-loved stories a new and dynamic interpretation in this period drama. Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is a young orphan in Victorian E ...

Children's/Family

1988

G

Plot: In this modernized, animated adaptation of Dickens Oliver Twist, set in the grim streets of New York City, Oliver is an innocent kitten trying to survive. He finds himself involved with a gang of canin ...

Music [nf]

1987

Plot: One year before the Clint Eastwood-directed Bird, Gary Giddins likewise covered the life and work of jazz great Charlie Bird Parker in this absorbing documentary. Rare filmclips of Parker ...

Musical

1968

G

Plot: Inspired by Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Barts 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was e ...