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: A secret friendship blossoms between a human boy and a tiny girl who lives with her family beneath the floorboards of his home.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, family, adaptation, children, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aloof boy comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal pancreatic illness.
Plot Keywords: animation, romance, youth, emotion, coming of age, sadness, healing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detectives race to find a possible witness to a 20-year-old double homicide before the killers get to her.
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, thriller, denmark, nordic, detective, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot (Nicole Garcia) arranges to kidnap another child, Jose (Alexis Chatrian), to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole (Mathilde Seigner) is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend, Francois (Luck Mervil), and some of his cohorts.
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, psychological drama, family, tragedy, female protagonist, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Belgian interpreter (Sylvie Testud) endures humiliation by her new co-workers (Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa) at a huge Japanese company.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, workplace, cultural conflict, japan, corporate culture, stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1880s Wisconsin, ambitious lumberjack Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) loves saloon girl Lotta (Frances Farmer) but spurns her and marries to advance his career. While Lotta marries his friend (Walter Brennan) and has a daughter, Barney becomes a lumber bigwig by ruthless deforestation. Years later, the late Lotta's daughter, also named Lotta and played by the same actress, becomes the object of affection of both Barney, hoping to recapture the love he lost, and his son, Richard (Joel McCrea).
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, 1930s, hollywood, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Plot Keywords: drama, hollywood, film industry, redemption, alcoholism, psychological trauma, italy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly Southern widow, Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), begrudgingly starts to acknowledge that she can't live on her own. When Mattie becomes friends with the town dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill), she is also introduced to his orphaned nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Although Wesley has been in trouble with the law and incarcerated for auto theft, Mattie sees potential in the boy and tries to point him in the right direction by allowing him to live with her.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, heartwarming, american film, novel adaptation, elderly ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sudden money ruins a struggling writer (Van Johnson) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) in post-World War II Paris.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, american, classic, adaptation, novel adaptation, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: His family packed off to Maine, Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is anticipating some quiet time alone. Then he meets Alice (Joan Bennett), the model for a portrait he admires, and can't resist her offer of a drink. No sooner do they get to her place, however, than her jealous boyfriend arrives in a rage. Richard kills him in self-defense, and they decide to hide the body. Things go smoothly until Richard's D.A. friend invites him to tag along on the investigation of his own crime.
Plot Keywords: suspense, film noir, psychological thriller, crime, murder, witness, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Returning from a military campaign abroad, General Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) discovers that a new religion has taken hold in Rome: Christianity. When Vinicius encounters Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a follower of the strange religion, he quickly becomes smitten and tries to win her affections. Lygia is reluctant due to their differing beliefs. Complicating matters is the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov), who blames the Christians for his own burning of Rome, beginning a wave of persecution.
Plot Keywords: epic, historical, ancient rome, christianity, romance, faith, roman empire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While planning her suicide, a precocious 11-year-old (Garance Le Guillermic) befriends a new neighbor (Togo Igawa) and a prickly recluse (Josiane Balasko).
Plot Keywords: french film, drama, adaptation, novel adaptation, female director, loneliness, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Story of a dilemma between a woman's love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a quick happy marriage. However, after he helps a man one night, Ilyas' life changes forever and he leaves Asya and Samet, their son and doesn't come back. After that, Asya takes their son and go away without knowing where she is heading, until a familiar hand reaches her to help selflessly.
Plot Keywords: love, drama, classic, marriage, rural life, cultural conflict, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, rebellion, power struggle, black comedy, social commentary, human nature exploration, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Plot Keywords: drama, fantasy, crime, prison, death penalty, supernatural, humanity ...
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