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Tag: based on novel or book

  • Travis McGee

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    Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.

  • The Makioka Sisters

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    This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

  • Class Enemy

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    Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.

  • The Sandwich Man

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    Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States.

  • Maria Chapdelaine

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    A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of…

  • The Virgin and the Gray Hair

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    After a woman loses hope of bearing a child of her own, she adopts an orphan against her husband’s will, but when the child becomes a young woman, she falls in love with her adoptive father.

  • The Return of the Soldier

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    The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn’t even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood,…

  • The Village of Mist

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    A young South Korean woman moves to an isolated mountain village, where all of the villagers are related except for a mysterious vagabond, to take up her first teaching post.

  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

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    Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.

  • Cujo

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    A friendly St. Bernard named “Cujo” contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

  • Levé křídlo

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    The war will also affect children’s games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape from a prison transport. Language differences certainly don’t matter when sporting talent is on display. The refugee becomes a welcome addition to the schoolboy football team, which is about to play against the German soldiers.

  • The Evil That Men Do

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    A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.

  • The Snowdrop Festival

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    This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It’s a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have…

  • Ohan

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    A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

  • Seven Elements

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    The Earth is facing great problems in the nearest future it is in the lack of sun light. Physicist Olmin is leading the project to build a special tunnel – made of elementary fractions – from the sun to the earth, in order to the earth could get much more sun energy and light. At…

  • Under the Volcano

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    Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced…

  • Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

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    A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

  • Mister Blot’s Academy

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    Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is the subject. Adaś learns about the miracles of the enchanted…

  • A Passage to India

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    Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny’s mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

  • The Razor’s Edge

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    An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.

  • Mahjong Horoki

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    A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.