The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Stand by Me (1986), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Brave Little Toaster (1987), I Am Legend (2007), Dean Spanley (2008), The Mist (2007), Hellraiser (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Based On Novella movies.
Storyline: A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved with her parents' world, and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair, which brings more differences to the surface.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, convertible, country club, dinner, drinking, drunkenness, erection ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas Eve, 1937, Piatra Neamt, Romania: Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor, contemplates suicide. The love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. On April 24th 1938, Easter Sunday, he takes a train to Bucharest to kill himself, but suddenly he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he miraculously grows younger and gains superhuman powers. WWII breaks out and Romania's fascist dictator Ion Antonescu cooperates with Adolf Hitler. Matei must escape to Switzerland, because Nazi scientists want to use his powers...Some years later, he meets a woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research...Coppola's adaptation of Mircea Eliade's surreal novella is a mysterious, romantic, melancholic and humorous journey to the outer limits of space, time and identity. Dreams become reality and reality feels like a dream...
Plot Keywords: dream, surrealism, book, balcony, tape recorder, split personality, photograph ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Plot Keywords: female nudity, female star appears nude, forbidden love, extramarital affair, adultery, cowgirl sex position, older woman younger man relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez' wife Miryea. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, but Cochran is aware that Mendez is a powerful, vindictive, and very possessive man who does not tolerate betrayal.
Plot Keywords: betrayal, adultery, trophy wife, lust, sex in bed, extramarital affair, adulterous wife ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: egg, boat, biplane, bathroom, based on novella, bachelor, arm wound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, father son relationship, fisherman, guilt, hotel, marital separation, money ...
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