Tag Archives: based on novel or book

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood’s black-market liquor business.

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement ...

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get ...

An independent country girl, Paisley, takes on the task of upholding her adored grandfather’s ranch. After being denied the funding needed ...

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, ...

Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although ...

Years after his wife Kate died, Ned Stevens still cringes at the thought of dating other women. After all, why would he start dating again when ...

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Leaps, ...

What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.

Two homicide detectives find their careers – and lives – on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in ...

A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks the sea. However, when a menacing ...

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and ...

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own ...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on ...

The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his ...

Ken Russell’s rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rainbow” sees impulsive young Ursula ...

Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. ...

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, ...

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected ...

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the “Virginian,” who gets off ...

After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel ...

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal ...

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman’s Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns ...

All The King’s Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor’s mansion.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an ...

New adaptation of Louis Cha’s wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the ...