9. Tale of Two Cities
One of Charles Dicken's most famous novels, a Tale of Two Cities is a sprawling epic that encompasses the turbulent times in France leading up to the French Revolution as well as its horrific aftermath. A Tale of Two Cities is a dense novel that handles a multitude of characters but the basic narrative is not all that complicated. The novel mostly follows two groups of people: one group of characters is the group of Sidney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and their friends and family, and the other group centers on the revolutionaries. The film would show France's descent into madness through a wide prism of characters and many of the themes in the novel still resound in the modern world.