Description: Classic books adapted to the big screen…
Recommended for watching and reading!
(An ever growing list! 🙂)
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Dark Passage
( 1947 )
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
( 1960 )
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
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Danny the Champion of the World
( 1989 )
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, widowed father William Smith (Jeremy Irons) and his son Danny (Samuel Irons) live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy, and when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father. Danny and his father decide to get even with Victor Hazell (Robbie Coltrane) and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
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Dances with Wolves
( 1990 )
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
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Damage
( 1993 )
A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.
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Dad
( 1989 )
John's mom has a heart attack and ends in hospital. John flies home to take care of his dad, teaching him to do things around the house, spends time with him and shows him how to live again without mom's control. John's son joins them.
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Crazy Rich Asians
( 2018 )
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.
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Cherry
( 2021 )
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
( 2005 )
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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Chapelwaite
( 2021 )
Chapelwaite follows Captain Charles Boone, who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher's Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family's sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
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Brokeback Mountain
( 2005 )
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
( 1961 )
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
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Behind Her Eyes
( 2021 )
Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. Her world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss David and matters take an even stranger turn when she's drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife Adele. What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no-one is what they seem.
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Atonement
( 2007 )
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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A Return to Salem's Lot
( 1987 )
A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.
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Anna Karenina
( 1948 )
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.
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American Psycho
( 2000 )
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
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Akira
( 1988 )
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
( 2001 )
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
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After Dark, My Sweet
( 1990 )
After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.
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About a Boy
( 2002 )
A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
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Abandon
( 2002 )
An investigation of a college student's missing boyfriend becomes quite strange when she begins to see him periodically.
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12 Years a Slave
( 2013 )
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
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mkmikas : i was struggling through it a little bit, maybe it was just because the roles were so real...