based-on-novel movies

Hope Springs

2003 | Comedy | Romance | UK | USA

Colin's a sad-eyed British artist (Firth) holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancee (Driver). The hotel owner (Steenburgen) plays matchmaker and introduces him to a local girl (Graham). Romance ensues, though Colin's ex may be looking to reunite.

The Body

2001 | Drama | Germany | Israel | Romance | Thriller | USA

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that ...

Bless the Child

2000 | Germany | Horror | Thriller | USA

Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby ...

Lonesome Dove

1989 | Adventure | Drama | USA | Western

Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible oppurtunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus ...

Vertigo

1958 | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | USA

John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is ...

The Color Purple

1985 | Drama | USA

This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

2008 | Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | USA

It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ...

Schindler’s List

1993 | Biography | Drama | History | USA | War

"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he ...

Get Carter

2000 | Action | Crime | Thriller | USA

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Hotel for Dogs

2009 | Comedy

Two kids secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house.

Cry of the Owl

2009 | Canada | Drama | France | Germany | UK

A troubled young man, Robert, leaves the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He finds respite from his problems by secretly watching the normal domestic life of a woman he doesn’t know through her kitchen window. But when Jenny catches Robert in the act ...

The River King

2005 | Canada | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | UK

In the city of Hadin, when two children find the body of the student Gus Pierce underneath the frozen water of the River King, the policeman Abel Grey is assigned for the investigation. The dean of the powerful and conservative local Haddan School where Gus studied, afraid of a possible ...