Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’



Modesty Blaise (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Vitti, Monica | Stamp, Terence | Dirk Bogarde | Andrews, Harry | Craig, Michael | Revill, Clive | Knox, Alexander | Falk, Rossella | Gabel, Scilla | Chow, Michael | Melia, Joe | Urzì, Saro | Aumont, Tina | MacGreevy, Oliver
Directors: Losey, Joseph
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Great Britain is giving 50 million pounds worth of diamonds to a Middle East sheik in return for oil concessions. There are rumors of a plot by arch-criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, so the Secret Service Chief (Harry Andrews) seeks the help of sexy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti), who brings along her sidekick Willie Garvin (Terence Stamp).

East of Eden (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Julie | Dean, James | Massey, Raymond | Ives, Burl | Davalos, Richard | Van Fleet, Jo | Dekker, Albert | Smith, Lois | Gordon, Harold | Dennis, Nick | Abbas, Abdullah | Arias, José | Brooks, Joe | Carey, Timothy | Carr, Jack
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father’s favorite and Cal desperately wants his father’s love and affection. It’s the period leading up to America’s entry into World War I and these are tumultuous times. After his father loses most of his fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce to New York, Cal decides to speculate on a crop of beans and makes a small fortune but he soon realizes that he can’t buy his father’s loves either. Cal’s discovery that his mother is alive - he and Aron were told that she had died - and that she is a madam leads to a final, tragic result for all three of the Trask men.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Reed, Donna | Barrymore, Lionel | Mitchell, Thomas | Travers, Henry | Bondi, Beulah | Faylen, Frank | Bond, Ward | Grahame, Gloria | Warner, H.B. | Albertson, Frank | Karns, Todd | Hinds, Samuel S. | Treen, Mary | Patton, Virginia
Directors: Capra, Frank
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

Harper (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Bacall, Lauren | Harris, Julie | Hill, Arthur | Leigh, Janet | Tiffin, Pamela | Wagner, Robert | Webber, Robert | Winters, Shelley | Gould, Harold | Jenson, Roy | Martin, Strother | West, Martin | deWit, Jacqueline | Iglesias, Eugene
Directors: Smight, Jack
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Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie’s Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Shaw, Robert | Balsam, Martin | Elizondo, Hector | Hindman, Earl | Broderick, James | O'Neill, Dick | Wallace, Lee | Pedi, Tom | Winde, Beatrice | Stiller, Jerry | George, Nathan | Bond, Rudy | McMillan, Kenneth | Roberts, Doris
Directors: Sargent, Joseph
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Pelham 1-2-3, a subway train, becomes the focal point of the most audacious and unusual terrorist attack ever seen. Four gunmen, going by color codenames, seize the train and hold its passengers and conductor hostage halfway between underground stations, demanding a hefty ransom else they will begin executing hostages. A veteran NY transit policeman leads negotiations with the hijackers to prevent any killing, but amid the showdown a question nags at authrorities - with the gunmen and their hostages in a tunnel surrounded by police on all sides, how can they possibly escape?

Fluke (1995)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Modine, Matthew | Travis, Nancy | Stoltz, Eric | Pomeranc, Max | Perlman, Ron | Polito, Jon | Cobbs, Bill | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Pacifici, Federico | Ross, Clarinda | Roberts, Adrian | Hansard, Bart | Hobart, Deborah
Directors: Carlei, Carlo
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Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn’t such a good husband and father.

42nd Street (1933)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Baxter, Warner | Daniels, Bebe | Brent, George | Keeler, Ruby | Kibbee, Guy | Merkel, Una | Rogers, Ginger | Sparks, Ned | Powell, Dick | Jenkins, Allen | Nugent, Edward J. | McWade, Robert | Stone, George E. | Akst, Harry | Clark, Wallis
Directors: Bacon, Lloyd
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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it’s aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don’t get any better than this.

Killing Me Softly (2002)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Ian | McElhone, Natascha | Fiennes, Joseph | Graham, Heather | Thomsen, Ulrich | Jason Hughes
Directors: Chen Kaige
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A London website designer ops out of her comfortable but ordinary relationship with a nice boyfriend when she forms a dangerously obsessive bond with a handsome, mysterious mountaineer, who turns out to have some secrets.

They Live by Night (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Donnell, Cathy | Granger, Farley | Da Silva, Howard | Flippen, Jay C. | Craig, Helen | Wright, Will | Bryant, Marie | Wolfe, Ian | Phipps, William | Harvey, Harry | Lee, Will | Nolan, Jim | Infuhr, Teddy | Foulger, Byron | Beach, Guy
Directors: Ray, Nicholas
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In the ’30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after “Bowie the Kid” harder than ever.

Assassination Bureau, The (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Reed, Oliver | Rigg, Diana | Savalas, Telly | Jürgens, Curd | Noiret, Philippe | Mitchell, Warren | Reid, Beryl | Revill, Clive | Griffith, Kenneth | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Incontrera, Annabella | Conrad, Jess | Coulouris, George | Michael, Ralph | Kath, Katherine
Directors: Dearden, Basil
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For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn’t know is that her paper’s owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.