Mishima (1985), Impromptu (1991), The Namesake (2006), Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird (2010), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007), La Lectrice (1988), A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Literature movies.
Storyline: Harry Bailey has returned from Vietnam and returns to college to earn his masters degree so he can teach English. He is considered a hero among the radical student body, but still sees the absurdity on both sides of the fence. He contends with the reactionary administration and the impetuous, often futile objectives of the restless students. He acts as a mediator between the two feuding bodies. On top of everything else, his girlfriend Jan wants to marry him and live a life in the suburbs. He is cornered and finally lets loose at his own masters degree dissertation meeting, just as the latest protest heats up.—thustlebird
Plot Keywords: graduate student, student, activist, teacher, administrator, unrestrained, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac. Louis's mistress, the courtesan Madame de Pompadour, is Voltaire's protector and advocate, but even she has difficulty preserving his welfare when Voltaire publicly excoriates the king for the wrongful execution of one of his subjects, Calas. Voltaire gives refuge to Calas's daughter and endeavors to show the king the error of his ways. But the Count de Sarnac, with an agenda of intrigue and disloyalty, determines to do away with the troublesome Voltaire.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: writer, louis xv, daughter, mistress, philosopher, engaging, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. Since he was trying to buy the manuscript for Mr. Oates, he is a suspect so he tries to solve the case. As the bodies pile up, Joel must solve the case or else Garda will be wearing black.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: amateur sleuth, bookseller, wife, wealthy man, inspector, butler, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Austenland is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes, a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with Mr. Darcy-as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice-is ruining her love life; no real man can compare. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined.
Plot Keywords: single woman, friend, love interest, winsome, heartwarming, uplifting, household ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley during various voyages through different European countries in that period. Although Frankenstein is just an invention strange things happen to the people Mary does not like.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: poet, writer, husband, stepsister, friend, monster, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Louis, a young teacher enamored of the age of F. Scott Fitzgerald, loses his job when he's caught trying on a bra he finds in a campus office. He decides to go to New York City to find himself and to be a writer. He answers an ad for a housemate placed by the eccentric and opinionated Henry Harrison; an odd-couple relationship starts. Louis gets a job selling advertising for a green magazine and fancies Mary, a co-worker. He meets Henry's neighbor, the hirsute Gershon, and Henry offers Paul schooling in the gentleman's world of being an "extra man" - a hired companion, a gigolo - for older women. Can Louis sort out these varied worlds as well as his own expectations?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: extra, professor, escort, amusing, new york city, literature, cross-dressing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.—Erich Mees
Plot Keywords: neighbor, teenager, daughter, suburban girl, suburbanite, amusing, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Government bureaucrat Guner (Tarik Akan) moves to a small Turkish village with the mission of modernizing their library, but the entire nation is in turmoil, and the people would much rather watch television than read books. While caring for his daughter Tuuba (Tuba Ünsal), a winsome girl in a wheelchair, Guner tries to grab the attention of the populace. Fortunately, eccentric repairman Crazy Emin (Yilmaz Erdogan) takes a liking to the girl and helps to unite the village.
Plot Keywords: bureaucrat, librarian, disabled girl, daughter, mayor, repairman, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman...and begins to rebel against society.
Plot Keywords: fireman, outlaw, thrilling, suspenseful, spirited, outlaws, fire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman).
Plot Keywords: ernest hemingway, author, aspiring writer, war correspondent, journalist, lover, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A storm forces frightened Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) inside a nearby library for shelter. Mr. Dewey (Christopher Lloyd), the librarian, sees that Richard needs an adventure and tries to give the boy a book, but all Richard wants is a phone. Before he can call his parents (Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris), Richard slips on the floor, hits his head and passes out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a fantasy land populated by famous literary characters.
Plot Keywords: parent, librarian, young boy, long john silver, dr. jekyll, amusing, creative ...
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