Yes, really!
Just mid-career Audrey Hepburn, annoying little kid, and valuables hidden unbeknownst to her.
Otherwise:
Husband/ No husband
Heroin / stamps
Villain out in the open / Villain hidden untll end of picture
Scary as shit / semi-comical romance
Claustrophobic / exotic locales
Blind / 20-20 vision
Nope. That’s just an old leetspeak spelling of my name.
The Departed is a remake or parts of three Infernal Affairs films.
Non-serious answer:
Point Break was remade as The Fast and the Furious
I was confused by this until I realized that Point of No Return and The Assassin were alternate titles for the same movie.
Dammit, now I learned something new.
My actual answer: Flubber was a remake of The Absent-Minded Professor.
But some YouTube friars I watched recently pointed out the similarities between Evan Almighty and The Santa Clause.
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) is a poor imitation of the great Italian film Swept Away from 1974. It was also remade with the original title in 2002 with Madonna in the lead role. I haven’t seen that one and don’t care to.
The French film La Cage aux Folles (“Birds of a Feather”) was remade in the U.S. as The Birdcage.
Really? I had not heard that. Googling, the first Fast and the Furious movie was based, in part, on an article about street racing.
Similarly, Le Dîner de Cons was remade in the US as Dinner for Schmucks.
And the Canadian (I think French Canadian) film Starbuck was remade as Delivery Man.
No, it was a joke. The overall plot is nearly the same.
LEO goes undercover in an extreme sports subculture to catch some thieves, becomes friends with the leader of the thieves, falls for the leader’s sister/friend that he treats like a sister, LEO lets friend/thief get away at the end.
And The Magnificent Seven then yielded, as a comedic remake/adaptation, Three Amigos!.
The Assassin is the title under which I saw it.
My question was inspired by Harvey Keitel’s performance in The Assassin as a “fixer” a lot meaner and nastier than Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction.
Back when I was an EFL teacher, I got ahold of a videotape of the former just as I finished having my class analyze the latter. We all had a good laugh when I played the Keitel segments back-to-back.
With regard to Charade and Wait until Dark: In both movies, Hepburn has something of extreme value in her possession without realizing it. She’s terrorized by the bad guys who are intent on recovering it, and she doesn’t know whom she can trust. Her husband is not around and she’s on her own. One of the men she fears actually turns out to be a nice guy and endangers himself trying to help her.
I don’t claim any direct connection, but those similarities suggest to me that whoever wrote the screenplay for the latter was at least influenced by the former.
I hate it when that happens!
Among many others,
My throwaway, Manhunter > Red Dragon.
12 Monkeys, if not exactly an expanded remake of La Jetée, at very least uses a whole lot of the same plot elements and in the opening credits of the former, the latter is listed as the inspiration.
The novel I am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson has been adapted to film three times under three titles: The Last Man on Earth (1964 with Vincent Price), The Omega Man (1971 with Charlton Heston), and I am Legend (2007 with Will Smith). There are significant plot differences between the four works (one novel and three films) so you may not count them as strictly remakes.
That was the other set of 3 I was trying to recall. Thank you for this.
Wikipedia has lists of such films, such as this one of “English-language films with previous foreign-language film versions.” (In some cases the English-language film has the same title in translation, in others the titles are completely different.)
True Lies was a remake of Who Was That Lady? with real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. I had an incredible feeling of deja vu watching the latter, but it didn’t click that I was seeing essentially the same movie until it got to the torture scene. Then everything fell into place.
As an aside, Larry Storch was the torturer in the original, and Jamie Lee Curtis played the same role as her mother (the hero’s wife) in the second.