Based on novel movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on novel movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, sad, period drama, realistic, sentimental and emotional films and TV shows about / with adaptation, coming of age, death, teenager, love, literary, family relations, novel, friendship and society plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
based on novel
TOP 10 movies tagged as based on novel: Gabriel's Inferno (2020), The Help (2011), Gone Girl (2014), All the Bright Places (2020), Les Misérables (2012), Shadow and Bone (2021), Bridgerton (2020), Me Before You (2016), Jane Eyre (2011), Emma. (2020).
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness ...
Style:
romantic, affectionate, sentimental, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
dark past, male teacher female student affair, love story, love at first sight, female student, university professor, first sex, male female relationship, fall in love, submissive woman, love, old love ...
Time:
21st century
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490K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, uplifting, teen, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, interracial romance, love story, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, true love, young adult, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience, mental illness ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
indiana
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style:
inspirational, epic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
rebellion, redemption, orphan, suicide, parole, historical character, revolution, adaptation, broadway, father daughter relationship, dying man, prostitute ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
france, paris france, seattle, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A teenage orphan who grows up in the land of Ravka. Her entire life changes after unexpectedly harnessing a power she never knew she had to save her best friend.
Style:
suspense, captivating, mysterious, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
magic, power, supernatural, magical, young woman, black magic, showdown, witchcraft, conspiracy, rivalry, good versus evil, fantasy world ...
Time:
future, 19th century
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165K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, aristocracy, love and romance, society, love story, marriage, eligible bachelor, sex scene, couple relations, intrigue, relationships, class differences ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place:
england, london
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284K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
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93K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, master and servant, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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62K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
love and romance, male female relationship, estate, prejudice, looking for love, female protagonist, couples, english countryside, friendship, wedding, unrequited love, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, 2020s, victorian era, future, 1800s ...
Place:
england, yorkshire
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447K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia
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785K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure ...
Style:
epic, suspense, captivating, tense, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
desert, space opera, alien planet, messiah, prophecy, destiny, outer space, premonition, water shortage, politics, adaptation, survival ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2020s
Place:
space western
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Style:
detective, surprise ending, suspense, artsy, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, investigation, train, murder, vengeance, snow, private detective, twists and turns, conspiracy, suspect, deduction ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1934, 1920s ...
Place:
turkey, alps, venice, former yugoslavia, istanbul turkey ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 339 min.
TV show
Story:
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel.
Style:
affectionate, romantic, touching, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
star crossed lovers, coming of age, university, love story, secret relationship, school, sex scene, male star appears nude, social misfits, couple relations, feminist, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, strong female character, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, pride ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1790s ...
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe
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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, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As the English and French soldiers battle for control of the American colonies in the 18th century, the settlers and native Americans are forced to take sides. Cora and her sister Alice unwittingly walk into trouble but are reluctantly saved by ...
Style:
epic, exciting, period piece, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
native american, indians, american indian, wilderness, army, colonial america, war, colonialism, freedom, fight scenes, american history, revenge ...
Time:
18th century, middle ages, georgian era, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious ...
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, exciting, sad ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
travel, magic, prophecy, friendship, children, child protagonist, steampunk, journey, parallel universe, conspiracy, coming of age, church ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, sincere, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
small town, bookstore, literature, narrow mindedness, widow, independent woman, storekeeper, death, platonic relationship, society, writers, women ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Style:
exciting, captivating, atmospheric, stylized, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, video game, virtuality, geek, love, teenage boy, dystopia, computer, teamwork, evil corporation, friendship ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 2010s, jurassic, near future ...
Place:
ohio, empire state building manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
alternate reality, resistance, fascism, alternate history, assassination, espionage, political intrigue, multiverse, spy, time traveler, freedom fighter, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
japan, usa, berlin germany, new york, san francisco ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
orphan, friendship, coming of age, small town, teenage life, child's point of view, family relations, school, feminism, children's home, imaginary, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
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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, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
alabama, usa, america, africa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
victorian england, murder investigation, haunted by the past, mysterious death, death, father, uncover truth, confronting the past, investigation, unsolved crime, secret, forensics ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style:
costume drama, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, sister, house, couples, love affair, society, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Style:
emotional, psychological, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, loss of daughter, mental illness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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241K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot:
love, sisters, writers, coming of age, generosity, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, intrigue, publisher, sister, jealousy ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
france, new york, paris france, massachusetts
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story:
Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, island, isolation, plot twist, murder, survival, investigation, bully comeuppance, trapped, accusation, death ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
britain, united kingdom, europe, england
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