Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island (1929)

The Mysterious Island (1929)
Rating: ★★
Jul 5, 2016Underwater Adventures/City of Merpeople
The first film adaptation of Jules Verne's sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The original book is a desert island adventure story; the film throws all that out and has a story about Captain Nemo encountering a race of merpeople
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Mysterious Island (1951)

Mysterious Island (1951)
Rating: ★★
Mar 27, 2024Serial/Desert Island Survival/Alien Invaders
A serial adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic survival story about escapees aboard a hot-air balloon who wash up on a desert island. To the regular story, this sees fit to add hostile natives, pirates and invading aliens from Mercury
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 18, 2003Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's novel is a lavishly produced period adventure. This became the definitive version of the book and inspired a string of other period-set Verne adaptations over the next decade
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From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Rating: ★★
Jan 17, 2001Victorian Moon Expedition/Jules Verne Adaptation
One of a series of Jules Verne adaptations that were popular in the 1950s about a Victorian-era Lunar rocket launch, this starts with great promise but loses impetus once it gets into orbit
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 12, 2003Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation
The success of Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a spate of Jules Verne's adaptation. Here Verne's tale of explorers in an underground realm has been turned into an absurdly colourful adventure
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Valley of the Dragons (1961)

Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Rating: ★
Aug 25, 2014Jules Verne Adaptation/Prehistoric Lost World on a Comet
Among the 1950s/60s spate of Jules Verne films, this was an adaptation of one of Vernr's lesser-known works Hector Servadac/Off on a Comet. That said, all the but the notion of people swept up on a comet is thrown out and the rest played as a prehistoric lost world adventure
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Mysterious Island (1961)

Mysterious Island (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 4, 2001Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
Amid the fad for Jules Verne adaptations of the 1950s/60s, we had this version of Verne’s desert island story, which has been pumped up with the addition of giant-size Ray Harryhausen animals and insects
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)

In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 2, 2006Jules Verne Adventure
Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a fad for Jules Verne adaptations throughout the 1950s/60s. Disney returned to Verne in this colourfully absurd adventure with children on a globe-spanning hunt for their missing father
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On the Comet (1970)

On the Comet (1970)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 21, 2017Jules Verne Adaptation/Swept Away on a Comet
I have raved elsewhere about Czech director Karel Zeman and his amazing blends of live-action and animation. This, his adaptation of a lesser-known Jules Verne work, is not quite up there with his earlier films but is an enjoyably colourful knockabout adventure
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 3, 2010Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation
Hallmark TV mini-series version of the Jules Verne novel that keeps faith to the book for the most part before heading off on some colourfully exotic adventures
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Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Rating: ★
Aug 21, 2014Jules Verne Comedy Adaptation
Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel is turned into a comedy vehicle for Jackie Chan. One of Chan’s biggest flops, an overblown turkey packed with celebrity cameos and replacing Verne’s adventure with incredibly unfunny slapstick
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Mysterious Island (2005)

Mysterious Island (2005)
Rating: ★
Oct 9, 2008Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
Hallmark tv mini-series adaptation of Jules Verne's desert island drama featuring no less than Patrick Stewart as Captain Nemo. This sinks badly amid incredibly shoddy giant animal digital effects
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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)
Rating: ★★
Oct 9, 2008Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation
This family friendly adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel was made to highlight the 3D process and throws most of the book out to essentially become Jules Verne the theme park ride
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Rating: ★
Dec 16, 2013Underground Adventures/The Asylum Mockbuster
A mockbusters from The Asylum made to coincide with the big-budget Brendan Fraser film. Resemblance to the Jules Verne book fairly much ends at the title
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The Mysterious Island (2012)

The Mysterious Island (2012)
Rating: ★★
Dec 29, 2013Desert Island Survival/Time Warp
About the ninth film version of Jules Verne's desert island survival story. This doesn't add the giant animals/insects other versions do, although we still get a number of wild sf elements the original book never had. Problem though is that the film never adds enough to make proceedings very interesting
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Rating: ★
Feb 8, 2012Jules Verne Adaptation/Island of Giant Fauna
Sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, a supposed adaptation of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island and a consistently silly, nonsensical film that operates at the level of a children's cartoon
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