Tag: based on novel or book

  • Supermarket Woman

    A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

  • Bad Moon

    One man’s struggle to contain the curse he hides within… and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family’s survival… and the end…

  • The Portrait of a Lady

    Ms. Isabel Archer isn’t afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father’s will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into…

  • Jude

    In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer’s daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and…

  • Foxfire

    The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.

  • The Island of Dr. Moreau

    A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.

  • Thinner

    An obese lawyer finds himself growing “Thinner” when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death,…

  • The First Wives Club

    After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts – in the wallet!

  • James and the Giant Peach

    When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

  • The Ghost and the Darkness

    Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project’s foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who…

  • Primal Fear

    An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the…

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris’ strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo’s tyranny.

  • Matilda

    Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia misunderstand her because they think she is so different. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a sadistic headmistress. As she gets fed up with the constant cruelty, she begins to realize…

  • Trainspotting

    Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.

  • The Sword of Dawn

    Gawain transmigrated, but his transmigration had a little problem. After floating in the sky of a continent from a different world for hundreds of thousands of years, he thought that he probably needs a body to be considerd a complete transmigrator, however he didn’t expect that after managing to get a body with great difficulty,…

  • Painful Secrets

    Dawn isn’t like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing self-mutilation is very real, and this movie exposes the growing epidemic. It’s a film you can’t…

  • Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story

    Anne is persuaded to join her fiance, Gilbert, in New York City as he begins his tenure at a major hospital. However, any chance of lasting happiness is dashed when Gilbert enlists to serve in The Great War in Europe. Anne stays behind and takes up writing, but learns that contact has been lost with…

  • The Magic Pudding

    Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip’s parents’ disappearance.

  • Making Love

    Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a “canone inverso” for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music,…

  • Fanny Hill

    Young beautiful girl Fanny Hill, who lives in the English provinces, decides to go to the capital for work. In London, she takes a job from Miss Brown. Poor virgin Fanny did not realize at first that Miss Brown is the owner of one of the most exclusive brothels in the city.

  • The House of Mirth

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.