based-on-novel movies

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Jones, Tommy Lee | Glover, Danny | Lane, Diane | Urich, Robert | Forrest, Frederic | Sweeney, D.B. | Schroder, Rick | Huston, Anjelica | Cooper, Chris | Scott, Timothy | Headly, Glenne | Corbin, Barry | Sanderson, William | Tubb, Barry
Directors: Wincer, Simon
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Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible oppurtunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus and many other townspeople to go on a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Gus has another agenda though: his former sweetheart now lives in Nebraska, and he hopes for a second chance with her. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale, ultimately becoming what could well be called the central event in the lives of all involved.

Vertigo (1958)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Novak, Kim | Bel Geddes, Barbara | Helmore, Tom | Jones, Henry | Bailey, Raymond | Corby, Ellen | Shayne, Konstantin | Patrick, Lee | Ano, Jack | Benson, John | Bryar, Paul | Della Santina, Bruno | Dotto, Carlo
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Color Purple, The (1985)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Goldberg, Whoopi | Avery, Margaret | Winfrey, Oprah | Pugh, Willard E. | Busia, Akosua | Jackson, Desreta | Caesar, Adolph | Chong, Rae Dawn | Ivey, Dana | Jackson, Leonard | Guillory, Bennet | Patton Jr., John | Anderson, Carl | Beaubian, Susan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cera, Michael | Dennings, Kat | Yoo, Aaron | Gavron, Rafi | Graynor, Ari | Dziena, Alexis | Wright, Jonathan B. | Booth, Zachary | Baruchel, Jay | Rice, Justin | Rudder, Christian | Angelini, Giorgio | Nowatka, Darbie | Symington, Cully | Haines, Jeremy
Directors: Sollett, Peter
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It’s been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It’s the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It’s a night they’ll never forget.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Kingsley, Ben | Fiennes, Ralph | Goodall, Caroline | Sagall, Jonathan | Davidtz, Embeth | Gebel, Malgoscha | Levy, Shmuel | Ivanir, Mark | Macola, Béatrice | Seweryn, Andrzej | von Thun, Friedrich | Luft, Krzysztof | Nehring, Harry | Weisser, Norbert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Get Carter (2000)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Richardson, Miranda | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Mitra, Rhona | Strong, Johnny | McGinley, John C. | Cumming, Alan | Caine, Michael | Cassini, John | Rourke, Mickey | Boone Junior, Mark | Sanford, Garwin | Scheelar, Darryl | Lowe, Crystal | Smith, Lauren Lee
Directors: Kay, Stephen T.
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Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Hotel for Dogs (2009)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
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Actors: Austin, Jake T. | Bruyette, Lance | Cheadle, Don | Del Junco, Georgie | Dillon, Kevin | Edelstein, Eric | Gentile, Troy | Kijas, Thomas | Naidu, Ajay | Simmons, Johnny | Starr, Arne | Vaidya, Omi | Vibert, Kenny | Ware, Andre | Wayne, Brendan
Directors: Freudenthal, Thor
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Two kids secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house.

Cry of the Owl (2009)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | France | Germany | UK
Actors: Considine, Paddy | Stiles, Julia | Dhavernas, Caroline | Rand, Gord | Gilbert, James | Pinnock, Arnold | Reid, R.D. | McFee, Bruce | Kydd, Jennifer | MacNeill, Peter | Bridges, Krista | Allison, Jonah | Pruner, Karl | Bisson, Brian | Byron, James
Directors: Thraves, Jamie
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A troubled young man, Robert, leaves the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He finds respite from his problems by secretly watching the normal domestic life of a woman he doesn’t know through her kitchen window. But when Jenny catches Robert in the act she doesn’t call the police. Instead she starts an affair with him, which has dire consequences when her boyfriend Greg finds out. Immediately suspicious of Robert, Greg makes it his mission to destroy him. But when a fight leaves Greg unconscious and missing, Robert discovers he is the number one suspect in a murder case that is slowly beginning to look like the ultimate set-up.

River King, The (2005)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Burns, Edward | Ehle, Jennifer | Gibson, Thomas | Kapelos, John | King, Jamie Thomas | Lefevre, Rachelle | Murphy, Bruce | McLean, David Gibson | Rhind-Tutt, Julian | Petty, Ross | Christoffel, David | Fitzpatrick, Richard | Pruner, Karl | Malen, Jonathan | Wright, Jeff A.
Directors: Willing, Nick
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In the city of Hadin, when two children find the body of the student Gus Pierce underneath the frozen water of the River King, the policeman Abel Grey is assigned for the investigation. The dean of the powerful and conservative local Haddan School where Gus studied, afraid of a possible scandal, tells the police that the outcast boy committed suicide. But Abel, after interviewing his best girlfriend, Carlin Leander, suspects that Gus was victim of a hazing of the Order of the Elect, a secret society of the Chalk House. Along his investigation, Abel, who has a trauma with the loss of his brother Frank years ago, finds corruption in his department and love with the teacher Betsy Chase. In the end, he discloses the truth about the death of Gus, and resolves his innermost issues with the ghost of Frank.

Time Machine, The (1960)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Young, Alan | Mimieux, Yvette | Cabot, Sebastian | Helmore, Tom | Bissell, Whit | Lloyd, Doris | Barran, Bob | Frees, Paul | Skelly, James | Powell, Josephine
Directors: Pal, George
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.