Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

River King, The (2005)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Burns, Edward | Ehle, Jennifer | Gibson, Thomas | Kapelos, John | King, Jamie Thomas | Lefevre, Rachelle | Murphy, Bruce | McLean, David Gibson | Rhind-Tutt, Julian | Petty, Ross | Christoffel, David | Fitzpatrick, Richard | Pruner, Karl | Malen, Jonathan | Wright, Jeff A.
Directors: Willing, Nick
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In the city of Hadin, when two children find the body of the student Gus Pierce underneath the frozen water of the River King, the policeman Abel Grey is assigned for the investigation. The dean of the powerful and conservative local Haddan School where Gus studied, afraid of a possible scandal, tells the police that the outcast boy committed suicide. But Abel, after interviewing his best girlfriend, Carlin Leander, suspects that Gus was victim of a hazing of the Order of the Elect, a secret society of the Chalk House. Along his investigation, Abel, who has a trauma with the loss of his brother Frank years ago, finds corruption in his department and love with the teacher Betsy Chase. In the end, he discloses the truth about the death of Gus, and resolves his innermost issues with the ghost of Frank.

Deliverance (1972)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Reynolds, Burt | Beatty, Ned | Cox, Ronny | Ramey, Ed | Redden, Billy | Glass, Seamon | Deal, Randall | McKinney, Bill | Coward, Herbert 'Cowboy' | Crone, Lewis | Keener, Ken | Popwell, Johnny | Fowler, John | Rickman, Kathy
Directors: Boorman, John
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Missing, The (2003)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Blanchett, Cate | Wood, Evan Rachel | Boyd, Jenna | Eckhart, Aaron | Kilmer, Val | Calderón, Sergio | Schweig, Eric | Reevis, Steve | Tavare, Jay | Baker, Simon | McKinnon, Ray | Perlich, Max | Frank, Ramon | Lujan, Deryle J.
Directors: Howard, Ron
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie’s daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Prestige, The (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Perabo, Piper | Hall, Rebecca | Johansson, Scarlett | Mahurin, Samantha | Bowie, David | Serkis, Andy | Davis, Daniel | Piddock, Jim | Neame, Christopher | Ryan, Mark | Rees, Roger | Harris, Jamie
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Shue, Elisabeth | Sands, Julian | Lewis, Richard | Weber, Steven | Adams, Kim | Procter, Emily | Regen, Stuart | Golino, Valeria | Beckel, Graham | Henderson, Al | Bhatia, Shashi | Lowell, Carey | Lange, Anne | Kopache, Thomas
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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Cape Fear (1991)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Nolte, Nick | Lange, Jessica | Lewis, Juliette | Baker, Joe Don | Mitchum, Robert | Peck, Gregory | Balsam, Martin | Douglas, Illeana | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Montero, Zully | Henne, Craig | Burton, Forest | Poe IV, Edgar Allan | Ball, Rod
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ledger, Heath | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Quaid, Randy | Hathaway, Anne | Williams, Michelle | Planche, Valerie | Beckel, Graham | Harbour, David | Mara, Kate | Maxwell, Roberta | McRobbie, Peter | Faris, Anna | Cardellini, Linda | Campbell, Scott Michael | Trimble, David
Directors: Lee, Ang
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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.


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