Good Remake Movies

In a course I'm teaching you have to do a standard on comparing two versions of a movie and contrast the different film techniques used. It is set up at the moment to do it with Romeo and Juliet (the Luhrman versus the Zeffirelli version) and I just don't see Shakespeare working out with my class. For several reasons. The advantage of it is that script wise it is exactly the same. The standard requires you to compare the same scenes in two different versions of the movie. This means the stories have to play out in pretty much the same way. You need to clearly have the scene where 'character A meets B' in both or the climatic fight between X and Y. Therefore 'loose' remakes like Dawn of the Dead aren't really useful. Another complication is that I want to avoid horror if possible. This is unfortunate because a lot of remakes that spring to mind are horror movies. I've just done quite a few violent and/or gory movies and I'd like to show that studying non-violent movies is good too. It is for a class which is kind of dominated with a lot of non-bookish males so Pride and Prejudice probably wouldn't be their cup of tea. They got really angry at watching 'Looking for Alibrandi' because it was a "click flick". So far the only ideas I have are: The Manchurian Candidate King Kong Dracula (I know it's horror again but at least it's period horror). Does anyone have any good suggestions?