10 Famous Movies You Had No Idea Were Actually Remakes

3. Fatal Attraction (1987)

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One in a long line of sexually-charged Adrian Lyne movies, though c'mon, you're already think about the bunny boiler scene, aren't you? Fatal Attraction stars Michael Douglas as a happily married man with the world at his fingertips, and Glenn Close as the unstable, psychotic woman he mistakenly chooses to have an affair with. What starts out as a brief fling explodes into sequences of attempted suicide, bloody violence and lots and lots of arguing. Six Academy Award nominations went to this one, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Close. It's A Remake Of...Diversion (1980), a little seen British television movie, written and directed by James Dearden, who went on to write the screenplay for Fatal Attraction. Diversion is only really notable for the fact it's 50 minutes long, and that the subsequent Hollywood remake proved to be an entirely worthwhile venture. It's also incredibly difficult to find anywhere, too, which marks it out as a title of relative obscurity nowadays. Still, the premise, which concerns a man whose involvement in a brief fling comes back to haunt him, remains firmly in tact.