Fyodor Dostoevsky

A tragic ending to Nazanin and Farhad's marriage: based on Dostoyevsky's short story "A Gentle Creature".

A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

Gentle is a film set in modern-day South Vietnam and based on the short story 'A Gentle Creature' by the Russian novelist Dostoevsky. It's the tale of a learned but troubled pawnbroker who saves a poor young beauty from the hands of her two devious aunts.

Tsumi to Batsu tells the story of Tachi Miroku, an aspiring writer who has become a college dropout and hikikomori (shut-in). He lost his father to suicide, while his mother and older sister have high expectations for his future. Whereas the classic Russian novel revolves around a young man who struggles with himself after killing a pawnbroker, Tsumi to Batsu's protag...

Muharrem pressgangs his old friends into inviting him to dinner, no matter that he hates and is hated by them. The dinner starts off with a few harmless gibes and trivial shows of bravado; but as time wears on and heads become fuddled, the conversation progresses steadily into the inglorious past. Old grievances come tumbling out into an ugly showdown. Through his character inspired from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Zeki Demirkubuz examines the existential problems of the individual. (iksv.org)

It's the tragedy of a young man whose dream of universal happiness is so powerful an influence on him that he cannot allow himself to accept the personal happiness of marriage to a young, beautiful and devoted girl. Therefore, he goes insane.

Léon returns to Dostoevsky to film an episode from The Idiot, starring Jeanne Balibar as the femme fatale Nastassia Philippovna, who finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. (themoviedb.org)

A drama company from Prague arrives in Krakow to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's famous novel at the city's alternative theatre festival; the production is to be staged in an unusual venue- the local steelworks. During rehearsals, the drama on stage spills over into real life. (leedsfilm.com)

An adaptation of “Memoirs From the House of the Dead,” Dostoyevsky’s fictionalized account of his time in a Siberian labor camp. (nytimes.com)

The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of intrigue. He inherits an enormous fortune, acquires affections of the vicious Nastassya Filippovna and the beautiful young Aglaya. Scandal, murder and incredible love affair follow. (imdb)

A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. (imdb)

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Dostoyevsky's classic tale of murder, guilt and philosophy comes to life on the bigscreen.

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent. (imdb)

The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc. (imdb)

Polish animator Piotr Dumala, already well known for existential films Kafka and The Gentle One (based on a Dostoevsky short story) tried his hand, literally, at Dostoevsky's novel. While it's not the first animation attempt at Crime and Punishment (in 1999, student Zack Margolis made a short but inspiring take on it called A Trip to the Building), it is by far the most ambitious... (awn.com)

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness. (imdb)

A Symphonie of Loneliness and Jazz

Adhering close to the book, the story begins in 19th-century Russia and centers on an idealistic student who believes his intellectual superiority gives him the right to commit any crime, even murder, with impunity if he believes it will improve society. So convinced is he of this notion that the student coldly murders a crooked pawnbroker and her sister (who is innocent). But as years pass, and he learns more about life, his arrogance is replaced by an agonizing, relentless guilt that threatens to destroy him... (All Movie Guide)

A young woman, Anna, in desperate need of money, takes a job as a stenographer for Fyodor Dostoyevsky--forty-five, epileptic, and in debt. The terms of her employment are extraordinary: she must stay at his apartment during the next month while he dictates a new novel to her. As the novel unfolds, Anna goes through a passage of discovery, a shedding of innocence and convention, as she comes face to face with her own eroticism. (Amazon)

Passion, criminal instincts, and traditions melt together in this film, which shakes our conception of crime. (imdb)

St. Petersburg, late nineteenth century. An aging man watches over his young wife's body. He is trying to find out the reasons for her suicide and resembles the story of his marriage. (Wikipedia.org)

Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute. (imdb)

A free adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel "The Idiot". Here, two Japanese actors perform the key roles of a man in love with a woman who chooses the love of another man. In another sketch, the two male friends are united to discuss the issue. (imdb)

A bored arrogant playboy spends his time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife but soon falls in love with her. She becomes pregnant. Is it his?

A Russian short based on a Dostoyesvsky story.

An adaptation of Dostoevsky's story, shifted to the present day.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. (imdb)

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

After the successful bank robbery Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him by the brothers Venin. On the way to Paris he meets one Leon, a neurotic and dreamer, whom he and his associates consider an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Mary. (imdb)

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions... (imdb)

Based on the homonymous novel by Fiódor Dostoevsky, this story framed in the social and political conflicts of Argentina in the 1930s penetrates the loneliness of a disturbed man. Diego Carmona is forced to confront himself and his environment when due to a testamentary clause he has to share his inherited house with the butler. Isolation and madness appear as an expression of defense against an adverse environment. (FILMAFFINITY)

Experience the gripping tale of pride, remorse, and redemption set among the 19th-century Russian working class in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Two-time Academy Award®-nominee John Hurt stars in this moving BBC dramatization that brings to life the classic story of an antihero doomed by his misguided sense of intellectual moral authority. A former student with fierce and rational intellect, Raskolnikov feels that he is above the law and even capable of shedding blood without penalty. (amazon.com)

In three episodes preceded by a prologue: the origin of the family, the private property, the state. Based on the works of Engels.

The story comes from a chapter in the Brothers Karamazov. It asks: what if Jesus was to return to 16th Century Spain? He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor, who feels compelled to give Jesus a tongue lashing. (imdb)

The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up. Over the next couple of nights, Jacques falls in love with her - but on the fourth night her original lover returns... (imdb)

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry... (imdb)

The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who's three sons are after his money. The Karamazov brothers, Dmitri, a gambler, Ivan, a thinker, and Aleksei, a monk, are living through their different problems. Ivan is trying to save the world by making a story of "The Great Inquisitor". Dmitri, who lost money in gambling, is begging his father to help him. But the father gives a lot of money to his mistress Grushenka. (imdb)

A tragic story of an uneasy marriage between a young girl and an elderly, crotchety man who cannot understand or approach her.

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met... (imdb)

Partner centres on the paranoid and persecuted Giaccobe who meets the manifestation of his imagined doppelganger and attempts to create a revolution through, um, a poorly-defined militant form of street-theatre... (twitchfilm.net)

An aristocrat Pralinsky (Evstigneev) goes to a wedding of his subordinate only to find the shocking differences between classes of people in Tsar Russia.

An ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused. (imdb)

"A Gentle Creature" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. It chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. (scalisto.blogspot.com)

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, White Nights

Robert Cole, a troubled young man with a troubling belief: Exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their crimes. After blacking out near the scene of a murder, Cole captures the attention of the police and proceeds to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious cop, a beautiful stranger and and a family foe. (Video Collection)

Upon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy. (imdb)

In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. (imdb)

A French tutor is determined to save a general's family from financial ruin.

A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover. (imdb)

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues. (imdb)

A young writer goes to Monte Carlo to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion. (imdb)

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.

Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.

A gambling-drama based on Dostoevsky's works: The retired General Kirileff is addicted to gambling and also has a costly affair. He takes out a loan from the greedy imposter Vincent, for which he is to pay an exorbitant interest rate. Vincent, for his part, wants to get closer to Kirileff's daughter Nina, who is to inherit her grandmother's fortune one day. Nina tries to help her father and goes to the gambling tables, only to lose a lot of money.

Man is haunted by a murder he's committed. (imdb)

Raskolnikov is a Russian man who follows an unusual moral code. A combination of vigilantism and hubris fuels his decision to aid a hapless prostitute by removing her antagonist, a local merchant. Raskolnikov is locked up for the murder, and while he does not deny committing the crime, he tries to persuade the police that he should not be charged.

A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions.

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father. (imdb)

Adaptation of Crime and Punishment

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky’s novel.

An adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel.