Book movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant book movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, cult classic, atmospheric, sad, psychological and inspirational films and TV shows about / with book, writers, danger, writing, death, novel, friendship, youth, supernatural and bookstore plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as book: The Ninth Gate (1999), The Outsiders (1983), The Book of Eli (2010), The Book Thief (2013), The Babadook (2014), Fahrenheit 451 (2018), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Inkheart (2008), The Dark Half (1993), Liberal Arts (2012).

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 6.7
 196K
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Style: gothic, satanic, dark, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: occult, supernatural, devil, collector, investigation, obsession, danger, chase, secret society, witchcraft, book, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, france, spain, eastern europe ...
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 7.0
 96K
The Outsiders (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
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, cult classic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, gang, teen angst, street gang, book, friendship, small town, dysfunctional family, brat pack, juvenile delinquent, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 60s, future, 1900s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: oklahoma, usa
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 6.8
 338K
The Book of Eli (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style: futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, twist ending, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, end of the world, desert, faith, religion, danger, dystopia, lone hero ...
Time: future, year 2010, near future, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco
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 7.5
 142K
The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 5.0
 22K
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: dystopia, book, shark, society, firefighter, resistance, partner, childhood memory, fire, meaning of life, murder, couple relations ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Style: touching, romantic, uplifting, sincere, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: world war two, writers, german occupation, marriage proposal, letter, nazi occupation, fiance fiancee relationship, friendship, strong female character, german soldier, nazi, female writer ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place: england, london
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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: bookstore, book, correspondence, friendship, writers, post war, marriage, pen pal, dentist, longing, voice over narration, love ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1950s, year 1987, 20th century ...
Place: new york, london, england, europe, usa
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 6.1
 82K
Inkheart (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Style: fairy tale, touching, exciting, dark fantasy, serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: adventurer, fictional reality, young heroes, imaginary, supernatural, writers, family relations, book, magic, parents and children, father daughter relationship, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2008, middle ages
Place: alps, italy
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 6.0
 19K
The Dark Half (1993)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: book, doppelganger, alter ego, supernatural, lookalikes, blackmail, writers, twins, murder, life philosophy, husband wife relationship, dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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 6.7
 40K
Liberal Arts (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to ...
Style: touching, humorous, talky, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: college, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, dull life, love and romance, fall in love, book, college student, thirtysomething life, depression, happy ending, college life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: ohio, new york, usa
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A Discovery of Witches (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1107 min.
TV show
Story: Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.
Style: stylized, romantic, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot: witch, vampire, supernatural, magic, vampire human love, danger, love and romance, witchcraft, impossible love, interspecies romance, love interest, magical power ...
Place: london, chicago, united kingdom, britain
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The End of the Tour (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style: philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: journalism, book, loneliness, writers, friendship, writer's block, poet, biopic, suicide, depression, writer's life, mentor ...
Time: 90s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa, illinois, minneapolis minnesota, nebraska, new york
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an ...
Style: philosophical, talky, intense, serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: book, self discovery, friendship, writers, teacher, suicide attempt, train travel, poet, dictatorship, investigation, obsessive quest, resistance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, 21st century
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal, europe, switzerland, spain
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The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, touching ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, family outing, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, book, bookstore, child protagonist, school, evil force, boy ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
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The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1843, Dickens was a literary rock star, but struggling financially after the slow sales of his previous novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Seized with the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, Dickens pitched his publishers A Christmas ...
Style: motivational, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: christmas, writers, charles dickens, book, publisher, victorian england, father son relationship, debt, holiday, inspiration, poverty, new year ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, year 1943
Place: turkey, london, new york, england
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.2
 45K
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, political, bleak ...
Plot: distopia, brainwashing, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, surveillance, fascism, alternate reality, political corruption, female nudity, totalitarian state, propaganda ...
Time: future, year 1984, 80s, near future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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 6.1
 25K
The Pagemaster (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Tyler knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: magic, mischievous children, childhood, book, children, dragon, imagination, wizard, child, parallel universe, fantasy world, magic wand ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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 5.8
 1K
Ghostwriter (2019)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: When a ghost haunts a neighborhood bookstore and starts releasing fictional characters into the real world, four kids must team up to solve an exciting mystery surrounding the ghost’s unfinished business.
Style: mysterious, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale, spooky
Audience: family outing
Plot: bookstore, boy, ghost, book, friends, magic, grandparent and grandchild, talking animal, high school life, paranormal phenomena, fantasy world, invisibility
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The Neverending Story III (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
Style: feel good, offbeat, fairy tale, action adventure, fantasy adventure ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: magic, bullying, book, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, dragon, sorcery, youth, sword and sorcery, childhood, kids and family, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous ...
Style: dark fantasy, epic, scenic, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, wizard, wizards and magicians, bravery, chosen one, school, young heroes, supernatural ability ...
Time: year 2010, year 1997, year 1998, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: london, europe, england
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style: offbeat, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: children, orphan, death in the family, steampunk, danger, siblings relations, child in peril, book, happy ending, young heroes, child, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place: peru
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The Book of Henry (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry ...
Style: touching, emotional, sad, entertaining, crime thriller ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: boy genius, genius, boy, single mother, friendship, suicide, mother son relationship, child prodigy, small town, fear, sick child, child abuse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york state
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The Colour of Magic (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 191 min.
TV show
Story: As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey & fate ...
Style: exciting, humorous, light, funny, enigmatic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, discworld
Plot: imaginary kingdom, magic, heroes, heroic mission, curses spells and rituals, danger, good versus evil, imaginary, book, tourist, alternate dimension, medieval ...
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 7.8
 234K
Misery (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: colorado, persia, usa
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
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