Based on book movies and TV shows – page 4

List of based on book movies

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, humorous, parody, period piece ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, date night, girls' night
Plot: zombie, prejudice, unlikely couple, couples, female warrior, virus, wooing, zombie survival, looking for love, plague, supernatural, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 2010s, 1800s, victorian era ...
Place: england, europe, britain, london
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 6.6
 99K
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style: suspense, detective, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, twists and turns, kidnapping, woman in danger, police investigation, violence against women, forensics, murder mystery, plot twist, investigation, profiler ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, washington d.c., north carolina, california
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: twists and turns, hospital, murder, journalist, policewoman, conspiracy, corruption, trial, rape, lawyer, journalism, serial killer ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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 7.0
 159K
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: touching, feel good, romantic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: animal, single father, happy ending, zoo, coping, kids and family, starting over, beautiful scenery, tiger, parenthood, countryside, father son relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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 7.2
 84K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: dark hero, stephen king, destiny, macabre, supernatural ability, premonition, supernatural, coma, paranoia, true love, psychic, snow ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s, future
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire, canada
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Freedom Writers (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, rough ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, lifestyle change, racism, teenage life, strong female lead, mentor, school teacher, bonding, idealism ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1961, year 1999, year 2006 ...
Place: california, los angeles, long beach california, usa
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The Great Escape (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens, manly, kids ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner, soldier, pow, freedom, prison escape, nazi, chase, war, capture, courage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 1900s, 20th century
Place: germany, america, europe, switzerland, alps ...
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 6.8
 152K
It (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, demonic, spooky ...
Audience: teens, kids, horror for children
Plot: stephen king, friendship, fear, killer clown, clown, children, childhood, supernatural, villain, monster, asthma, small town ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1960, 80s
Place: maine, usa, new york
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 6.6
 25K
The Great Raid (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Style: tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, rescue mission, pow, world war two, prisoner of war camp, prison, special forces, japanese occupation, prison escape, world war, escape attempt ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, 20th century, post world war two
Place: the philippines, asia, pearl harbor, manila philippines, germany ...
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Vampire Academy (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe ...
Style: exciting, sexy, teen, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: vampire, supernatural, teenager, academy, danger, school, good versus evil, high school, vampire human love, friends, supernatural ability, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: montana, oregon, new jersey
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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, serious, heartbreaking, crying ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, relationships, writers, wartime life, passion, melancholy, obsession, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style: entertaining, sweet, humorous, teen, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, bad luck, child's point of view, job interview, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, birthday party, family relations, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, usa, north america
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, thought provoking, gothic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, manly, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, racism, small town, legal, single father, coming of age, rape, justice, childhood ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa, america, africa ...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Hungary, Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: confusing, neo noir, bleak, period piece, political ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, mole, british intelligence, investigation, double agent, kgb, government agency, secret agent, undercover ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, istanbul turkey, hungary ...
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Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style: realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place: france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 313K
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English ...
Style: feel good, touching, funny, sweet, laugh out loud ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: cross dressing, divorce, comedy of errors, nanny, gender, kids and family, children, custody battle, transvestism, transvestite, childhood, parenting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: bay area, san francisco, california, usa, north america
Is relevant?
 6.8
 201K
Black Mass (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style: factual, suspense, brutal, intense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, violence, corruption, irish mob, organized crime, gangster, fbi, fbi agent, true crime, murder, illness, violent ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place: boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, miami ...
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The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style: stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot: goofy hero, getting home, cat, youth, friendship, imaginary kingdom, disorder, talking cat, impersonating a police officer, child, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 2003
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 33K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place: australia, africa, new zealand
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All the President's Men (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of ...
Style: political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: journalism, newspaper, political conspiracy, politics, conspiracy, political corruption, investigation, american politics, white house, investigative journalism, whistleblower, president ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1972, year 1976
Place: washington d.c., usa, north america, miami, florida
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style: touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia, new zealand
Is relevant?
 5.5
 84K
Seventh Son (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, UK, China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an ...
Style: dark fantasy, exciting, epic, fairy tale, scenic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: witch, sword and sorcery, magic, good versus evil, supernatural, chosen one, medieval, black magic, curses spells and rituals, destiny, supernatural ability, monster ...
Time: 18th century
Place: england
Is relevant?
 8.0
 265K
Lion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot: adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place: india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style: clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: con artists, adaptation, master criminal, creativity, deception, fbi, fraud, con man, impostor, prodigy, business, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s, year 2002 ...
Place: los angeles, new orleans, new york, washington d.c., france ...
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Adventures of Arsene Lupin (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: As the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Style: captivating, stylized, serious, exciting, period drama
Plot: master criminal, mysterious character, coup d'etat, treasure hunt, hotshot hero, criminal heroes, danger, haunted by the past, thief, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, master of disguise ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1880s, 1910s ...
Place: paris france, europe, france
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 7.0
 108K
The Outsiders (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style: teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience: teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time: 60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place: oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: middle school, childhood, child protagonist, teenager, peer pressure, coming of age, high school life, fat boy, boy, high school, bullying, child ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: guatemala, usa, new york, north america, manhattan new york city ...
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ...
Style: suspenseful, saga, scenic, perverse, exciting ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, giant monster, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, island, dangerous animal, amusement park, lost world, paleontology, expedition, killer animal ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 1997, prehistoric times, 20th century
Place: costa rica, fictional island, san diego california, caribbean, kenya ...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
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