based-on-novel movies

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Tommy Lee Jones | Danny Glover | Diane Lane | Robert Urich | Frederic Forrest | D.B. Sweeney | Rick Schroder | Anjelica Huston | Chris Cooper | Timothy Scott | Glenne Headly | Barry Corbin | William Sanderson | Barry Tubb
Directors: Simon Wincer
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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)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Kim Novak | Barbara Bel Geddes | Tom Helmore | Henry Jones | Raymond Bailey | Ellen Corby | Konstantin Shayne | Lee Patrick | Jack Ano | John Benson | Paul Bryar | Bruno Della Santina | Carlo Dotto
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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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.

The Color Purple (1985)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey | Willard E. Pugh | Akosua Busia | Desreta Jackson | Adolph Caesar | Rae Dawn Chong | Dana Ivey | Leonard Jackson | Bennet Guillory | John Patton Jr. | Carl Anderson | Susan Beaubian
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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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)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Cera | Kat Dennings | Aaron Yoo | Rafi Gavron | Ari Graynor | Alexis Dziena | Jonathan B. Wright | Zachary Booth | Jay Baruchel | Justin Rice | Christian Rudder | Giorgio Angelini | Darbie Nowatka | Cully Symington | Jeremy Haines
Directors: Peter Sollett
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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)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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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)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Miranda Richardson | Rachael Leigh Cook | Rhona Mitra | Johnny Strong | John C. McGinley | Alan Cumming | Michael Caine | John Cassini | Mickey Rourke | Mark Boone Junior | Garwin Sanford | Darryl Scheelar | Crystal Lowe | Lauren Lee Smith
Directors: Stephen T. Kay
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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)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries:
Actors: Jake T. Austin | Lance Bruyette | Don Cheadle | Georgie Del Junco | Kevin Dillon | Eric Edelstein | Troy Gentile | Thomas Kijas | Ajay Naidu | Johnny Simmons | Arne Starr | Omi Vaidya | Kenny Vibert | Andre Ware | Brendan Wayne
Directors: Thor Freudenthal
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Two kids secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house.

Cry of the Owl (2009)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | France | Germany | UK
Actors: Paddy Considine | Julia Stiles | Caroline Dhavernas | Gord Rand | James Gilbert | Arnold Pinnock | R.D. Reid | Bruce McFee | Jennifer Kydd | Peter MacNeill | Krista Bridges | Jonah Allison | Karl Pruner | Brian Bisson | James Byron
Directors: Jamie Thraves
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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.

The River King (2005)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Edward Burns | Jennifer Ehle | Thomas Gibson | John Kapelos | Jamie Thomas King | Rachelle Lefevre | Bruce Murphy | David Gibson McLean | Julian Rhind-Tutt | Ross Petty | David Christoffel | Richard Fitzpatrick | Karl Pruner | Jonathan Malen | Jeff A. Wright
Directors: Nick Willing
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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.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Asa Butterfield | Zac Mattoon O'Brien | Domonkos Németh | Henry Kingsmill | Vera Farmiga | Cara Horgan | Zsuzsa Holl | Amber Beattie | László Áron | David Thewlis | Richard Johnson | Sheila Hancock | Iván Verebély | Béla Fesztbaum | Attila Egyed
Directors: Mark Herman
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Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in Pre-war Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and army Commandant father. The family re-locate to the countryside where his father is assigned to commandeer a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pyjamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.