Hedda Gabler (1962)

 

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

A TV production with a stellar cast, in which Ingrid Bergman shines the best, is unfortunately a brutally condensed, stubbed up adaptation of the classic play.  

 

 

Watership Down (1978)

A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.

From memory: Excellent animated drama tells an exciting, heart-wrenching, but also rather dark tale not really suitable for a young audience.

Halliwell (no star): "A brilliantly written if somewhat pretentious parable becomes a rather flatly made cartoon in which it is difficult to distinguish one rabbit from another; the whole thing becomes a bit doomladen for family audiences, while adults will presumably prefer to reread the novel."

Maltin***1/2: "Stylish animated-cartoon...not a kiddie film. Bird character voiced by Zero Mostel provides only comic relief in this sometimes grimm cartoon...One of the best non-Disney animated features ever made."

Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

From memory:  The title is a misnomer, but this TV movie presents a more complex and sympathetic version of the creation, production value is extraordinary and delivers some shocks, the star cast is excellent.

Things to Come (1936)

 

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.