Screenplay: Louisa May Alcott

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Louisa May Alcott. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Little Women

2019 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Greta Gerwig

Cast Saoirse Ronan · Timothée Chalamet · Emma Watson · Florence Pugh

Plot "Little Women" follows teenage sisters Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg and their mother in Civil War-era Massachusetts as they navigate first love and their first holiday without their father, a...

7.0

13K votes

7.0

13K votes

Little Women

1933 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Plot Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Little Women

1949 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Plot Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg,...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

6.7

26 votes

Little Women

1994 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Gillian Armstrong

Cast Winona Ryder · Susan Sarandon · Gabriel Byrne · Trini Alvarado

Plot LITTLE WOMEN is based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 novel about a family's struggles during the Civil War while the father, a Union army chaplain, is away. Together, the...

6.2

11K votes

6.2

11K votes

Little Women (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vanessa Caswill

Cast Maya Hawke · Kathryn Newton · Dylan Baker · Willa Fitzgerald

Plot TV Miniseries (2017). 3 Episodes. Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love,...

6.1

318 votes

6.1

318 votes

Love's Tale of Young Grass (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Fumio Kurokawa · Nobushiki Yamazaki

Plot Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four loving March sisters living with their mother in Gettysburg during the Civil War. Their father is a military doctor fighting in the Union...

5.5

343 votes

5.5

343 votes

Little Women

2018 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Clare Niederpruem

Cast Lea Thompson · Ian Bohen · Lucas Grabeel · Melanie Stone

Plot A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to...

4.1

45 votes

4.1

45 votes

The Inheritance (TV)

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Bobby Roth

Cast Cari Shayne · Brigitta Dau · Paul Anthony Stewart · Brigid Brannagh

Plot At the lush Evenswood estate in Concord, Massachusetts, Edith Adelon, a beautiful orphan, lives as the paid companion to the daughter of the wealthy Hamilton family, although they regard her...

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The March Sisters at Christmas (TV)

2012 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

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Little Women

1980 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yugo Serikawa

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Mujercitas

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico

Direction José Díaz Morales

Cast Nubia Martí · Ricardo Cortés · Delia Peña Orta · Marisa Becker

Plot Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg,...

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Little Men

1998 · Movie · 89 min. · Canada

Direction Rodney Gibbons

Cast Mariel Hemingway · Michael Caloz · Ben Cook · Ricky Mabe

Plot Retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of two street kids - one who becomes the recipient of a kind benefactor and the other who goes on the run on...

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Louisa's Legacy: Little Women and Orchard House (S)

2020 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Jan Turnquist

Cast Greta Gerwig · Jess Gonchor · Annie Leibovitz · Eliza Scanlen

Plot Find out more about Louisa May Alcott and visit the real-life Orchard House in Concord, MA, Available on Little Women (2019) Special Features

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Little Women (TV)

1978 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

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Little Men

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Ralph Morgan · Erin O'Brien-Moore · Junior Durkin · Cora Sue Collins

Plot The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the...

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An Old-Fashioned Girl

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Dreifuss

Cast Gloria Jean · Jimmy Lydon · John Hubbard · Frances Rafferty

Plot A young woman leaves home to earn money for the family, which is not the norm for her sex and social standing.

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Mujercitas (TV Series)

1999 · Series · min. · Venezuela

Direction Grazio D'Angelo

Cast Daniela Alvarado · Adrián Delgado · Eduardo Serrano · Karina Orozco

Plot 110 Episodes. Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's masterpiece "Little Women", this story takes place during a Civil War in 1859. The tempestuous Josephine, the beautiful Manuela, the fragile Maria Teresa...

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Little Women II: Jo's Boys (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kôzô Kusuba

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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (TV)

2008 · Movie · 90 min. · Canada

Direction Graeme Campbell

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Helene Joy · Tatiana Maslany · Kristopher Turner

Plot Isabella Caldwell is a high-society woman in late-1800's New York. When Isabella's estranged daughter Mary becomes ill and is too proud to ask her mother for assistance, Mary's daughter, Tilly,...

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