Screenplay: William Makepeace Thackeray

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Marisa Berenson · Leon Vitali · Patrick Magee

Plot 18th century rural Ireland. After his father is killed in a duel, Barry Lyndon lives with his mother. He is in love with his cousin, Nora Brady, but she gets...

Direction Jonathan Entwistle · James Strong

Cast Olivia Cooke · Tom Bateman · Michael Palin · Johnny Flynn

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 8 Episodes. Adaptation of the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Olivia Cooke is heroine Becky Sharp, who attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke

Plot Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's...

Direction Mira Nair

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Eileen Atkins · Jim Broadbent · Gabriel Byrne

Plot One of America's most popular stars unites with one of the world's most acclaimed directors to bring to the screen one of the greatest female characters ever created. The new...

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence · Michael Owen Morris

Cast Eve Matheson · Rebecca Saire · Simon Dormandy · Jack Klaff

Plot In the time of Napoleon, Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers,...

Direction David Giles

Cast Susan Hampshire · Dyson Lovell · Bryan Marshall · Marilyn Taylerson

Direction Vlasta Janecková

Cast Jan Tríska · Blanka Waleská · Jana Preissová · Jaroslav Marvan

Direction Marc Munden

Cast Natasha Little · Frances Grey · David Ross · Philip Glenister

Plot 6 Episodes. Dramatisation, adapted by Andrew Davies, of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair - the tale of Becky Sharp, a governess who more than compensates in brains and beauty for...

Direction Pilar Miró

Cast Víctor Valverde · Fiorella Faltoyano · Nuria Carresi · Ernesto Aura

Direction Chester M. Franklin

Cast Myrna Loy · Conway Tearle · Barbara Kent · Walter Byron

Plot An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.