The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai (2019), The Absent One (2014), Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001), Fear and Trembling (2003), Come and Get It (1936), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), Walking Across Egypt (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Novel Adaptation movies.
Storyline: Based on S.E. Hinton's novel about a teenager experiencing the pitfalls of growing up in a parentless environment.
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, brotherhood, family, rebellion, friendship, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orphaned as a child, Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck) grows up to join the priesthood. He decides to become a missionary in China, and arrives to find the previous church burned down. Undaunted, he presses on, but doesn't initially fare well with the local populace. It's not until the child of a Mandarin falls ill that Chisholm proves his worth. Over time, he collaborates with a trio of nuns, endures several wars and, at the end of his life, returns to Scotland.
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, china, scotland, catholicism, humanity, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The danger of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.
Plot Keywords: war, peace, history, epic, romance, russia, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on Stephen Crane's novel of a young Union soldier panicked upon exposure to his first Civil War battle.
Plot Keywords: war, american civil war, courage, coming of age, psychological conflict, fear, honor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular.
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, justice, law, coming of age, morality, prejudice, american south ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Irish maid, Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), falls for Paul (Gregory Peck), who is the son of her rich boss, William Scott (Donald Crisp). To further complicate matters, Mary's father, Pat (Lionel Barrymore), lost both of his legs in an accident at the steel mill owned by Paul's father. Neither William or Pat approves of the couple's romance, and the burgeoning relationship only becomes a bigger battleground when a strike erupts at the steel mill.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, class conflict, historical, america, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Struggling new attorney Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) resorts to working for a shady lawyer (Mickey Rourke), where he meets paralegal Deck Shifflet (Danny DeVito). When the insurance company of Dot Black (Mary Kay Place) refuses her dying son coverage, Baylor and Shifflet team up to fight the corrupt corporation, taking on its callous lawyer (Jon Voight). Meanwhile, Baylor becomes involved with Kelly Riker (Claire Danes), an abused wife, whose husband complicates matters when he confronts Baylor.
Plot Keywords: legal, drama, courtroom, lawyer, insurance fraud, moral dilemma, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John McTeague was a simple slow man who became a dentist after working at the Big Dipper Gold Mine. He is now being hunted in Death Valley by his ex-best friend Marcus and the law. His lot was cast the day that he meet his future wife Trina in his office. She was with Marcus and she bought a lottery ticket. Well Mac fell for her and Marcus stepped aside. When Mac and Trina married, she won the Lottery for $5000 and became obsessive about the money in gold. Marcus is steamed as he stepped aside and now she is rich so he has the law shut down Mac as he has no official schooling for his dentistry. Trina fearful that they will take her gold away sells everything and takes all Mac earns when he is working. She adds to her stash of gold as they both live as paupers. When Mac has no job and no money, he leaves and Trina moves. Driven to desperation at being poor and hungry he finds Trina and demands the gold.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, satire, capitalism, greed, moral decay, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.
Plot Keywords: epic, romance, war, historical, drama, classic, american civil war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the eighteenth century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton). When Nora gets engaged to British Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter), Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, where he saves the life of his Captain and becomes his protégé and spy of Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari (Patrick Magee). He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, war, adventure, romance, british, 18th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, navy, sacrifice, heroism, patriotism, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions facing the men, some go insane and resort to murder and cannibalism. In the midst of this, Pvt. Tamura tries to survive without giving up his principles.—Eugene Ly <euge.ly@utoronto.ca>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, humanity, survival, moral dilemma, soldiers, philippines ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A lusty man (Marcello Mastroianni) and a cold woman (Ursula Andress) play victim and hunter in a 21st-century TV game of life and death.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, action, dystopian, black comedy, futuristic, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, romance, drama, historical, world war ii, british, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A veteran of World War I marries and settles happily into a tidy, humble life until an accident brings back memories of a former life of wealth and privilege while blocking all recollection of his existence since the war. Thus one man disappears, and another man long missing turns up and claims his vast inheritance. What does his devoted wife, whom he no longer recognizes, do?—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, war background, amnesia, identity ...
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