What movies are notorious for having been remade into many versions in different years/by different countries?

Question

What movies are notorious for having been remade into many versions in different years/by different countries?

Answer 1

Americans are always remaking foreign films:

Cousin/Cousine (French 1975) became Cousins (American 1989)

La Cage Aux Folles (French 1978) became The Birdcage (American 1996)

The Tall Blond Man with one Black Shoe (French 1972) became The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

There are lots more. These are only the ones I can think of off the top of my head. French s*x comedies seem to be the ones that U.S. filmmakers remade the most.

Spoorloos (The Netherlands 1988) became The Vanishing (American 1993)

Answer 2

Shakespeare's plays have been filmed and re-filmed over and over in many different countries. There are versions of "Macbeth," for instance, from America, Europe, and Japan, including films that recast the play as a Western, a gangster movie, and a samurai epic. "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet" have been filmed many times as well. Besides Shakespeare, similar international treatment has affected the works of Charles Dickens (especially "Oliver Twist," "A Christmas Carol," and "Great Expectations"), Fyodor Dostoyevsky ("White Nights"), Leo Tolstoy ("War and Peace"), Charlotte Bronte ("Jane Eyre"), Emily Bronte ("Wuthering Heights"), and Jane Austen ("Pride and Prejudice," "Emma").