based-on-book movies

Dresden Files, The (2007)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: Canada | USA
Available seasons: 1

Serpico (1973)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Randolph, John | Kehoe, Jack | McGuire, Biff | Eda-Young, Barbara | Sharpe, Cornelia | Roberts, Tony | Medici, John | Rich, Allan | Ornellas, Norman | Grover, Edward | Henderson, Albert | Garrett, Hank | Leake, Damien | Bova, Joseph
Directors: Lumet, Sidney
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.

Krippendorf’s Tribe (1998)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Elfman, Jenna | Lyonne, Natasha | Smith, Gregory | Lindner, Carl Michael | Handy, Jacob | Handy, Zachary | Tomlin, Lily | Root, Stephen | Belack, Doris | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Fallon, Siobhan | Strickland, Amzie | Leeds, Phil | Bay, Frances
Directors: Holland, Todd
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A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he’s failed, he gives a lecture about the Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund) and then has his family dress like “Shelmikedmus,” so that he can film them as proof of his discovery.

Field of Dreams (1989)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Madigan, Amy | Hoffmann, Gaby | Liotta, Ray | Busfield, Timothy | Jones, James Earl | Lancaster, Burt | Whaley, Frank | Brown, Dwier | Andelin, James | Kean, Mary Anne | Persons, Fern | Coffield, Kelly | Milhoan, Michael | Eastin, Steve
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Iris (2001)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Peter Pan (2003)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Isaacs, Jason | Sumpter, Jeremy | Briers, Richard | Palmer, Geoffrey | Newell, Harry | Popplewell, Freddie | Chester, Theodore | Simonian, Rupert | MacKay, George | Eden, Harry | Gooch, Patrick | Gooch, Lachlan | Waters, Mathew | Cinis, Alan | Whitten, Frank
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In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life—free of grown-up rules—while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Bosworth, Kate | Yoo, Aaron | Lapira, Liza | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Carey, Helen | Gilpin, Jack | Lows, Donna | Williams, Butch | Campbell, Ben
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Pelican Brief, The (1993)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Washington, Denzel | Shepard, Sam | Heard, John | Goldwyn, Tony | Sikking, James | Atherton, William | Culp, Robert | Tucci, Stanley | Cronyn, Hume | Lithgow, John | Heald, Anthony | Woodeson, Nicholas | Anderson, Stanley | Finn, John
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

Excalibur (1981)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Terry, Nigel | Mirren, Helen | Clay, Nicholas | Lunghi, Cherie | Geoffrey, Paul | Williamson, Nicol | Addie, Robert | Byrne, Gabriel | Buckley, Keith | Boorman, Katrine | Neeson, Liam | Redgrave, Corin | O'Brien, Niall | Stewart, Patrick | Swift, Clive
Directors: Boorman, John
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As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of the Round Table. It is there in Arthur’s glory years and in his decline, brought on by the love affair between his wife Guenevere and best friend and best knight Sir Lancelot, the Holy Grail Quest which produces many casualties among the knights, and the arrival of Mordred, the son Arthur had by his evil half-sister, the sorceress Morgana. Through it all, the magician Merlin watches over everything, always ready to throw in a Charm of Making when it’s called for.

Elephant Man, The (1980)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Hurt, John | Bancroft, Anne | Gielgud, John | Hiller, Wendy | Jones, Freddie | Elphick, Michael | Gordon, Hannah | Ryan, Helen | Standing, John | Fletcher, Dexter | Dunlop, Lesley | Nicholls, Phoebe | Gorman, Pat | Davenport, Claire
Directors: Lynch, David
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.