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Adaptations in film and television

Below are lists of adaptations of Jane Austen's works. They are in no particular order. If you notice any that I have missed that should be in these lists, please let me know. 

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Pride and Prejudice
  • Pride and Prejudice (1995)

    • Popular BBC television adaptation written by Andrew Davies starring Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth​​​

  • Pride and Prejudice (1940)​

    • Film set in ​​a later time period than Austen using dresses from Gone with eh Wind (1939) starring Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier. Script partially written by author Aldous Huxley

  • Pride and Prejudice (2003)​

    • Austen's story is transplanted in to modern-day Utah in this film

  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)​

    • Film based on a parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith starring Lily ​James

  • Pride and Prejudice (1980)​

    • An earlier BBC television adaptation on a budget starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul​

  • Pride and Prejudice (1938)​

    • An even earlier BBC television adaptation of the novel in black and white​

  • Pride and Prejudice (2005)

    • Film adaptation starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen​

  • Bride and Prejudice ​(2004)

    • A twist on the story telling the story of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan​

  • Bridget Jones Diary (​2001)

    • Based on the book by Helen Fielding, the story borrows elements from Pride and Prejudice and includes Colin Firth as Mr Darcy​

  • Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012 - )​

    • A web video series told in a video log style with Lizzie Bennet narrating​

  • Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)​

    • A three part murder mystery television series based on the novel by PD James starring Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jenna Coleman and Matthew Goode​

  • Lost in Austen (2008)

    • Follows the story of Amanda, a Janeite, who finds herself swapped with fictional Elizabeth Bennet​

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Sense and Sensibility
  • Sense and Sensibility (2005)

    • Film adapted for the screen and starring Emma Thompson who won an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Also includes big names such as Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant​. 

  • Sense and Sensibility (1981)​

    • BBC television adapation​

  • Sense and Sensibility (1971)​

    • Low budget television adapation

  • Sense and Sensibility (2008)​

    • BBC television series written by Andrew Davies, who also wrote the popular BBC Pride and Prejudice (1995) adaptation​

  • From Prada to Nada (2011)​

    • Latina spin on Jane Austen's novel​ where two spoiled sisters are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in Los Angeles following the death of their father

  • Material Girls (2006)​

    • Two wealthy sisters are given a wake-up call following a scandal stripping them of their wealth starring Hilary Duff and her real life sister Haylie​

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Mansfield Park
  • Mansfield Park (1999)

    • This film changes the timid Fanny Price into a feisty strong-willed heroine breaking the fourth wall with Frances Conner in the lead role along with Jonny Lee Miller

  • Mansfield Park (2007)​

    • Television adapation with Billie Piper as Fanny Price​, choosing to remain entirely at the location of Mansfield Park for the entirety 

  • Mansfield Park (1983) ​

    • BBC television adaptation starring Sylvestra Le Touzel who also stars as Mrs Allen in a Northanger Abbey adaptation​​

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Persuasion
  • Persuasion (1995)

    • One of the great Austen adaptations of 1995 starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds​

  • Persuasion (2007)​

    • BBC television adaptation starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry Jones​

  • Persuasion (1971)​

    • BBC television mini series ​

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Emma
  • Emma (1996)

    • Film starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Also featuring names such as Alan Cumming, Sophie Thompson, Toni Collette and Ewan MacGregor. Also Juliet Stevenson who has voiced several Austen audiobooks.

  • Emma (2009)​

    • BBC adaptation featuring Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller, who also starred in Mansfield Park (1999)​

  • Emma (1996)​

    • Television movie starring the great Kate Beckinsale with the screenplay being written by Andrew Davies who also wrote the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice​

  • Emma (1972)​

    • BBC television production ​

  • Clueless (1995)​

    • Popular cult classic adaptation of Emma set in an American high school starring Alicia Silverstone​

  • Aisha (2010)​

    • Adaptation of Emma set in India​

  • Emma Approved (2013 - )​

    • Online web series in a vlog style with Emma narrating​

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Northanger Abbey
  • Northanger Abbey (1986)

    • BBC television adaptation​

  • Northanger Abbey (2007)

    • Television movie staring Felicity Jones and ​JJ Feild. The screenplay is written by Andrew Davies who also wrote the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice​

  • The Cate Morland Chronicles (2016 - )

    • Modern retelling in vlog style following Cate Morland, a journalism graduate obsessed with fan culture​

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Lady Susan
  • Love & Friendship (2016)

    • Starring Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan, who also played Emma some 21 years before. ​The title is taken from one of Austen's Juvenilia

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Sanditon
  • Sanditon (2014)

    • Picks up where Austen leaves the story

  • Sanditon (in progress)​

    • Currently shooting in the UK. Names such as Max Irons and Charlotte Rampling are set to star​

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The Watsons
  • I can find no adaptations of Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons

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Other adaptations
  • Austenland (2013)

    • Follows Janeite Jane who travels to a Jane Austen theme holiday in England in search of her Mr Darcy​

  • Becoming Jane (2007)

    • A very loosely (and I mean very) biographical film of Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy's relationship starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. The film has many fictional elements to it​ so do not take everything as fact from this film

  • Miss Austen Regrets (2007)

    • Looking at Jane Austen's later years of life as she approaches forty and helps her niece find a husband​

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