Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Stalker (1979), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Ready Player One (2018), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Based On A Novel movies.
Storyline: Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and performing as a 'fakir' who can do impossible miracles. After his mother's untimely death, he sets out on a journey to find his father and rise from poverty.—palvaaja
Plot Keywords: singing in a car, based on a novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".
Plot Keywords: mirror, no opening credits, marriage, sex scene, wedding, gun, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
Plot Keywords: short skirt, bare breasts, miniskirt, topless female nudity, cleavage, pig, sex scene ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: James Bond's next mission sends him to the circus. A British Agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Fabergé egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn's and Orlov's plan is to blow-up a nuclear device on a U.S. Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn.
Plot Keywords: agent, india, train, circus, russian, 007, exploding building ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the vein of CLUELESS and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, FREAK SHOW tells the moving, heartwarming, and hilarious story of Billy Bloom, a boldly confident, wildly eccentric teenager, who faces intolerance and persecution at his ultra conservative high school, and decides to fight back on behalf of all the misunderstood freaks of the world by running for the title of homecoming queen.
Plot Keywords: rejection, rehab, mansion, vintage car, competition, football, smart phone ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paris is starving, but the King of France is more interested in money and bedding women. When a young soldier dies for the sake of a shag, Aramis, Athos and Porthos band together with a plan to replace the king. Unknown to many, there is a 2nd king, a twin, hidden at birth, then imprisoned for 6 years behind an iron mask. All that remains now is D'Artagnan, will he stand against his long time friends, or do what is best for his country?
Plot Keywords: 17th century, france, twin, love interest, costume party, villain played by lead actor, death of lover ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
Plot Keywords: bare chested male, elephant, jungle, india, based on a novel, based on novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three years into the American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies is still running, occupied by the matriarch, a teacher and five students in Spanish moss-draped Virginia. However, when a young student stumbles upon Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union deserter on the verge of death, the already frail balance of things will be disrupted, as the hesitant headmistress decides to take him in to heal from his injury. Little by little, as the unwelcome guest arouses an uneasy sexual excitation among the women of the secluded boarding school, it is not before long that they will find themselves competing for the alluring man's favour. Undoubtedly, this handsome devil is a manipulator, nevertheless, will the ladies stay forever beguiled by his charm?
Plot Keywords: wounded soldier, american civil war, amputee, sexual tension, confederate soldier, southern belle, seduction ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.—Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>
Plot Keywords: ku klux klan, civil war, racist, propaganda, racial discrimination, american civil war, u.s. civil war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun....and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration. Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield....Relentless and mindblowing.
Plot Keywords: f rated, bohemian, writer, companion, kingpin, criminal, thug ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A noirish crime thriller, Galveston centers on New Orleans hitman Roy Cady, diagnosed with lung cancer at 40. Before the cancer can do him in, however, he has more pressing concerns in the form of his mobster boss, who has decided to remove him from the business - and the world - via a set-up. Turning the tables, he goes on the run having rescued teenage hooker Raquel "Rocky" Arceneaux. He's persuaded to pick up her baby sister Tiffany, and with his new wards in tow, heads to his titular hometown to scheme revenge and redemption.—Polly_Kat
Plot Keywords: based on a novel, road movie, hurricane, storm, year 2008, prison, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five, living with his callous, alcoholic father, enamored with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. On a winter's day, while about to drown, he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to anyplace on earth. He runs away from home, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, searches out Millie, invites her to travel with him, and only later realizes that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly. Is everyone close to David in danger?
Plot Keywords: teleportation, bank, theft, water, based on novel, time travel, teenage girl ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--discovered in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, 'gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...
Plot Keywords: orphan, epic, kidnapping, missing child, quest, parallel universe, desk ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A detective looks to unravel a mystery surrounding missing children and the prime suspects: two young women who, seven years ago, were put away for an infant's death.
Plot Keywords: death, based on novel, triple f rated, f rated, three word title, boy, obsession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this, the first Matt Helm movie, we see Matt Helm coaxed out of semi-retirement by an attractive ex-partner. It seems that the evil Big O organization has a nefarious plan called "Operation: Fallout." If this plan comes to fruition, Big O will explode an atomic bomb over Alamogordo, NM, and start WWIII. Only Matt Helm can stop them.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: 1960s, hitwoman, dream sequence, hand to hand combat, silencer, cigarette smoking, mp 40 machine gun ...
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