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Tag: based on novel or book

  • House on Fire

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    In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

  • A Human Promise

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    An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.

  • Caravan Serai

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    Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.

  • Murder in Three Acts

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    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

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    A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.

  • Dead Man’s Folly

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    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an “expert”, a real murder occurs.

  • Deadly Friend

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    When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.

  • Desiring Julia

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    A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies and games. Poor guy, will soon discover he’ll have to pay a price for Giulia. He’ll have to put up with all her strange and pervert desires, until of course he reaches…

  • The Fringe Dwellers

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    The story of an Aboriginal family’s attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.

  • Gathering Clouds

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    Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.

  • 9B

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    The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school.

  • Blind Trust

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    A government ministry’s fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who’s being released in exchange for information about Montreal’s underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money…

  • The Whistle Blower

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    A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable…

  • The Name of the Rose

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    14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church’s authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

  • The Return of Josey Wales

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    In a small, dusty border town, two long-time best friends of the mysterious gunman Josey Wales are brutally murdered by marauding rurales. The rurales, led by the beastial Commandante Escobar, head back to Mexico with gambler Ten Spot as hostage. Told of his friend’s peril, Josey sets out on a trail of bloody vengeance.

  • Exploits of a Young Don Juan

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    In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold…

  • The Lady in a Black Dress

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    A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later,…

  • Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint’s Map

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    A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson’s book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This movie covers the first half of the book.

  • Foxes of Chironup

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    Foxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the northern Japanese island of Chironup. They befriend a fisherman and his wife but are forced to run for their lives when soldiers on a military exercise decide to take home some fox pelts as souvenirs.…

  • La Brute

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    Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to his wife. His lawyer, Mr. Deliot, however, will try to discover the truth, because he is convinced that his client is innocent.

  • White of the Eye

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    In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths…