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* ''[[Flubber]]'' was a remake of a 1961 film called ''The Absent-Minded Professor''.

* The 1995 and 2003 versions of ''[[Freaky Friday]]''.

** The 1961 ''Parent Trap'' already was the third adaptation of the same book, Erich Kästner's ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', and thus can itself legitimately be described as a [[Foreign Remake]].

* [[The Mummy Trilogy|The 1999 version]] of ''[[The Mummy (film)|The Mummy]]''.

* The 1956 film ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] is the remake of his own 1934 film with the same title.

* The 1986 version of ''[[The Fly]]'' is a remake of the 1958 version.

* The 1998 and 2009 versions of ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''.

* The 2007 version of ''Sleuth''. Notable in that it kept one of the original leads, but in the opposite role.

* [[The Killing]] is a remake of the Danish series Forbrydelsen (The Crime).

* The Swedish series ''Wallander'' was remade by [[The BBC]].

 

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* The 2000-2001 version of ''The Fugitive''.

* The 2007 version of ''Bionic Woman''.

* The 2003 miniseries and 2004-2009 version of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''.

* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' of 2002-03 was admittedly a remake of the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' from 1979.

** On the other hand, GSN's remake of Lingo (hosted by Chuck Woolery) [[Your Mileage May Vary|was actually superior to the original]].

* The 2009 [[Britcom]] ''Reggie Perrin'', a remake of the 1970s [[Britcom]] ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]''.

* The 2010 version of ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]''.

* The 2011 version of ''Charlie's Angels''.

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