Movies and TV Shows Based on Works by Jules Verne
Movies and TV Shows Based on Works by Jules Verne
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- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKirk DouglasJames MasonPaul LukasA ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.78 (4)
Blu-ray (DMC exclusive)
DVD (Audio commentary, extras) - DirectorHenry LevinStarsJames MasonPat BooneArlene DahlAn Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.77 (4)
Blu-ray (UK Eureka Entertainment: Region B)
Blu-ray (Twilight Time Remastered: Out of print) - DirectorCy EndfieldStarsMichael CraigJoan GreenwoodMichael CallanDuring the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.77 (3)
Blu-ray (UK Powerhouse Films/Indicator: Region free)
Blu-ray (Twilight Time: Out of print) - DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.68 (4)
DVD (Warner Bros.) - DirectorEric BrevigStarsBrendan FraserJosh HutchersonAníta BriemOn a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.59 (5), 3D: 5/5
Blu-ray 3D (Warner Bros.) - DirectorBrad PeytonStarsJosh HutchersonDwayne JohnsonMichael CaineSean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.51 (5), 3D: 3.5/5
Blu-ray 3D (Warner Bros.) - StarsNoriko HidakaNathan ParsonsJames Arnold TaylorA teen acrobat of mysterious origins and a young inventor find themselves entangled in a sinister plot that involves the fate of the world.20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
85 (2)
Blu-ray (Sentai Filmworks: Out of print)
Blu-ray (UK Animatsu: Out of print) - DirectorMasa AonoStarsYoshino TakamoriNoriko HidakaKumiko TakizawaA teen acrobat of mysterious origins and a young inventor find themselves entangled in a sinister plot that involves the fate of the world.42 (1)
DVD (ADV Films) - StarsTom WynerGregory SnegoffKen'ichi OgataA furry version of Jules Verne's classic adventure story of a British gentleman's challenge to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.Around the World in 80 Days
75 (1)
DVD - CreatorJules VerneStarsDavid TennantIbrahim KomaLeonie BeneschGentleman adventurer Phileas Fogg sets out on a quest to travel around the world and back home in a period of 80 days.71 (1)
Blu-ray (UK Dazzler Media) - StarsPierce BrosnanEric IdleJulia NicksonA Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.71 (1)
DVD - DirectorKarel ZemanStarsLubor TokosArnost NavrátilMiroslav HolubAn evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.Blu-ray (Criterion)
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsHanus BorJan CizekJan MalátFive young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsMagda VásáryováEmil HorváthFrantisek FilipovskýWhen a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon dealer's ship, and her two brothers, who are searching her. Then there's a group of natives, who plan a rebellion against the French colonists. All these conflicts become secondary when the people finally realize that they are doomed to live together on an alien planet. However this time of peace and world-happiness won't last for long...
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsMichal DocolomanskýEvelyna SteimarováVlastimil BrodskýIn 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsVincent PriceCharles BronsonHenry HullIn 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.63 (2)
Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)
Blu-ray (Shour Factory Vincent Price III Collection) - DirectorKevin BillingtonStarsKirk DouglasYul BrynnerSamantha EggarA ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, in the most southern city in Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.The Lighthouse at the End of the World
65 (2)
Blu-ray (Kino Lorber) - DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHayley MillsMaurice ChevalierGeorge SandersIn 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.65 (1)
Blu-ray (DMC exclusive) - DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsJean-Paul BelmondoUrsula AndressMaria PacômeThe farcical adventures of unhappy suicidal billionaire Arthur Lempereur.Blu-ray (Cohen Media Group)
- DirectorFrank CoraciStarsJackie ChanSteve CooganJim BroadbentTo win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.49 (4)
Blu-ray (DE: Region B) - DirectorIrwin AllenStarsRed ButtonsFabianBarbara EdenIn 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.57 (1)
Blu-ray (UK 101 Films: Region free) - DirectorByron HaskinStarsJoseph CottenGeorge SandersDebra PagetIn 1868, American inventor Victor Barbicane develops a powerful military explosive that he also uses as fuel for a moon-bound rocket manned by himself and a motley crew.45 (2)
- StarsVladimir SmirnovLembit UlfsakNikolay YeryomenkoScottish nobles lead a search party for Cpt. Grant along the 37th parallel in Patagonia and Australia, with a French polymath and Grant's children, sailing and facing adventures on land, while Jules Verne shares his thoughts on his novel.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsCurd JürgensGeneviève PageJacques DacqmineIn 19th century Russia, a Tartar rebellion led by Feofar Khan separates Russia from Siberia where the Tsar's brother and his troops are making a last stand. The Tsar entrusts Captain Michel Strogoff to deliver a vital message to them.
- DirectorJames HillStarsRobert RyanChuck ConnorsNanette NewmanWhen Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsAllen HolubarDan HanlonEdna PendletonA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)
- DirectorLucien HubbardBenjamin ChristensenMaurice TourneurStarsLionel BarrymoreJacqueline GadsdonLloyd HughesOn a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
- StarsTreat WilliamsJeremy LondonTushka BergenRemake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemHenri ColpiStarsOmar SharifGérard TichyJess HahnA group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. They encounter a castaway, pirates, and captain Nemo with his array of scientific gadgets to keep strangers off his island.
- DirectorNorman MaurerStarsJoe DeRitaLarry FineMoe HowardThe Three Stooges play servants to an ancestor of Phileas Fogg and embark on a trip around the world.Blu-ray (Mill Creek Entertainment)
- DirectorSidney HayersOrson WellesStarsGeorge SegalUrsula AndressOrson WellesIn 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, who's posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, everyone wants to steal it.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsBurl IvesJimmy ClitheroeTerry-ThomasIn Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon, but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.Blu-ray (Olive Films)
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard CrennaBen CrossJulie CoxIn the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsCesare DanovaSean McCloryJoan StaleyIn 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
- DirectorJuan Piquer SimónStarsKenneth MorePep MunnéIvonne SentisAlso known as "The Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth" in the UK. The film is partially dubbed in English, but it has good cinematography.