Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Hope Springs (2003)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Colin Firth | Heather Graham | Minnie Driver | Frank Collison | Oliver Platt | Mary Steenburgen | Ken Kramer | Chad Faust | Tony Alcantar | Bethoe Shirkoff | Alan Giles | Dolores Drake | Howard Storey | June B. Wilde
Directors: Mark Herman
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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.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Clark Gable | Vivien Leigh | Leslie Howard | Olivia de Havilland | Thomas Mitchell
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Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Bless the Child (2000)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kim Basinger | Jimmy Smits | Holliston Coleman | Rufus Sewell | Angela Bettis | Christina Ricci | Michael Gaston | Lumi Cavazos | Dimitra Arliss | Eugene Lipinski | Anne Betancourt | Ian Holm | Helen Stenborg | Matthew Lemche | Dan Warry-Smith
Directors: Chuck Russell
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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 in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.

The Relic (1997)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Penelope Ann Miller | Tom Sizemore | Linda Hunt | James Whitmore | Clayton Rohner | Chi Moui Lo | Thomas Ryan | Robert Lesser | Diane Robin | Lewis Van Bergen | Constance Towers | Francis X. McCarthy | Audra Lindley | John Kapelos | Tico Wells
Directors: Peter Hyams
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A researcher at Chicago’s Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D’Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague’s crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city’s mayor is to attend.

The Last Legion (2007)

Friday, September 18th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | War
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Colin Firth | Ben Kingsley | Aishwarya Rai | Peter Mullan | Kevin McKidd | John Hannah | Iain Glen | Thomas Sangster | Rupert Friend | Nonso Anozie | Owen Teale | Alexander Siddig | Robert Pugh | James Cosmo | Harry Van Gorkum
Directors: Doug Lefler
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As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Asa Butterfield | Zac Mattoon O'Brien | Domonkos Németh | Henry Kingsmill | Vera Farmiga | Cara Horgan | Zsuzsa Holl | Amber Beattie | László Áron | David Thewlis | Richard Johnson | Sheila Hancock | Iván Verebély | Béla Fesztbaum | Attila Egyed
Directors: Mark Herman
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Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in Pre-war Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and army Commandant father. The family re-locate to the countryside where his father is assigned to commandeer a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pyjamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.

Wag the Dog (1997)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Robert De Niro | Anne Heche | Denis Leary | Willie Nelson | Andrea Martin | Kirsten Dunst | William H. Macy | John Michael Higgins | Suzie Plakson | Woody Harrelson | Michael Belson | Suzanne Cryer | Jason Cottle | David Koechner
Directors: Barry Levinson
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After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.

Random Hearts (1999)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kristin Scott Thomas | Charles S. Dutton | Bonnie Hunt | Dennis Haysbert | Richard Jenkins | Paul Guilfoyle | Susanna Thompson | Peter Coyote | Dylan Baker | Lynne Thigpen | Susan Floyd | Bill Cobbs | Kate Mara
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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The wife of Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek and the husband of politician Kay Chandler are killed in a plane crash. Now Dutch discovers some anomalies in what he told her before she left and discovers that she and Chandler’s husband were travelling together. Dutch then goes to Chandler and tells her that he suspects that they were having an affair. He tells her that he wants to know the truth; she tells him that she doesn’t but she later joins him and they grow close.

Blood and Chocolate (2007)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Agnes Bruckner | Hugh Dancy | Olivier Martinez | Katja Riemann | Bryan Dick | Chris Geere | Tom Harper | John Kerr | Jack Wilson | Vitalie Ursu | Bogdan Voda | Kata Dobó | Rodica Mandache | Helga Racz | Lia Bugnar
Directors: Katja von Garnier
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With the Five on her tail, a young beautiful werewolf named Vivian seeks peace in the arms of Aiden while escaping the never-ending infatuation Gabriel has on her. But when a string of accidental murders happen, this threatens to rip and expose her pack apart.