Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Steve Buscemi | John Cleese | Oprah Winfrey | Cedric the Entertainer | Kathy Bates | Reba McEntire | Robert Redford | Thomas Haden Church | André Benjamin | Dominic Scott Kay | Sam Shepard | Abraham Benrubi | Dakota Fanning | Kevin Anderson
Directors: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Being There (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Richard Basehart | Ruth Attaway | David Clennon | Fran Brill | Denise DuBarry | Oteil Burbridge | Ravenell Keller III | Brian Corrigan | Alfredine P. Brown | Donald Jacob
Directors: Hal Ashby
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander Ludwig | Christopher Eccleston | Ian McShane | Frances Conroy | James Cosmo | Jim Piddock | Amelia Warner | John Benjamin Hickey | Wendy Crewson | Emma Lockhart | Drew Tyler Bell | Edmund Entin | Gary Entin | Gregory Smith | Jordan J. Dale
Directors: David L. Cunningham
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The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will discovers a series of clues which lead him into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will’s hands.

Atonement (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Julia West | James McAvoy | Harriet Walter | Keira Knightley | Juno Temple | Felix von Simson | Charlie von Simson | Alfie Allen | Patrick Kennedy | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Wight | Peter O'Connor | Daniel Mays
Directors: Joe Wright
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant’s son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony’s misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.

Dracula (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Winona Ryder | Anthony Hopkins | Keanu Reeves | Richard E. Grant | Cary Elwes | Bill Campbell | Sadie Frost | Tom Waits | Monica Bellucci | Michaela Bercu | Florina Kendrick | Jay Robinson | I.M. Hobson | Laurie Franks
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy’s friend Mina, and her fiancé Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Powell | David Warner | Eric Porter | Karen Dotrice | John Mills | George Baker | Ronald Pickup | Donald Pickering | Timothy West | Miles Anderson | Andrew Keir | Robert Flemyng | William Squire | Paul McDowell | David Collings
Directors: Don Sharp
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ’sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ’sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Shaw | Harrison Ford | Barbara Bach | Edward Fox | Franco Nero | Carl Weathers | Richard Kiel | Alan Badel | Michael Byrne | Philip Latham | Angus MacInnes | Michael Sheard | Petar Buntic | Leslie Schofield | Anthony Langdon
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.

Suburban Girl (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar | Alec Baldwin | Maggie Grace | James Naughton | Chris Carmack | Dennis Albanese | Geoffrey Cantor | Nathan Corddry | Vincent De Paul | Richard Dreyfuss | Spencer Hawken | Daniel Hubbert | Amad Jackson | Keith Jordan | Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Directors: Marc Klein
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A Manhattanite book editor (Gellar) finds her take on the game of romance changed after she lures the attention of an influential older man.

The Invasion (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Daniel Craig | Jeremy Northam | Jackson Bond | Jeffrey Wright | Veronica Cartwright | Josef Sommer | Celia Weston | Roger Rees | Eric Benjamin | Susan Floyd | Stephanie Berry | Alexis Raben | Adam LeFevre | Joanna Merlin
Directors: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son becomes infected, she and a colleague must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost…

Taps (1981)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: George C. Scott | Timothy Hutton | Ronny Cox | Sean Penn | Tom Cruise | Brendan Ward | Evan Handler | John P. Navin Jr. | Billy Van Zandt | Giancarlo Esposito | Donald Kimmel | Tim Wahrer | Tim Riley | Jeff Rochlin | Rusty Jacobs
Directors: Harold Becker
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An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander (George C. Scott). Under the command of a student cadet major (Timothy Hutton), the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.