Tag Archives: based on novel or book

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his ...

While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune ...

Through revealing interviews with experts and victims’ families, this gripping documentary examines the problem of deadly foodborne illness ...

A skeleton found in Lake Eden reveals the true identity of a beloved resident. Despite her fiancé’s disapproval, Hannah investigates the ...

July 1, 2000. British 21-year-old Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo, sparking an international investigation — and an unyielding quest for justice.

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to ...

A family moves to a quiet and isolated place, but suffers from nightmares on their very first day in the new home.

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled ...

When young computer genius Rudy inherits his father’s business his avaricious uncle has him kidnapped and held hostage until the boy signs ...

After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of ...

A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She ...

Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and streetwise tomcat Maurice leads a band of educated rodent friends (and a ...

A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true ...

Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when ...

When a pirate family’s arrival shakes up a coastal town, the kids next door offer to help them blend in and fight a bitter rival.

Instead of joining the graduation trip with her friends, Mabel is forced to travel with her parents to a ski station in Chile. Only she ...

Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was ...

Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city’s Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and ...

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to ...

A female boxing trainer discovers that her champion cage-fighter boyfriend has been cheating on her with her sister and decides to seek revenge ...

Instead of joining the graduation trip with her friends, Mabel is forced to travel with her parents to a ski station in Chile. Only she ...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles’ production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

In director Vicente Aranda’s adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, ...

An ambitious law student who hates music needs to make a perfect plan to get hired at the office she interns at – until she meets a charming ...

Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there ...

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley ...

Three modern couples juggle relationships and demanding careers while navigating the unpredictable terrain of parenthood.