Keyword: based on short story

New Boy

6.6

2007

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A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

7.4

2003

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Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage. Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée.

Ashes

6.1

2012

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She paints her nails by the swimming pool. He waits lying on the sofa. The boat leaves.

Chechu y familia

5

1992

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Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.

The Beast Must Die

6.1

1974

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Eight people have been invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

The Skull

6.4

1965

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A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.

The Pit and the Pendulum

6.1

1991

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Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Shout

6.7

1978

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A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

6.3

1980

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A TV adaptation of Washington Irvings classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.

Die, Monster, Die!

5.6

1965

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A young man visits his fiancées estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.

Jindabyne

6.3

2006

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After four men on a fishing trip discover a dead body in the water, they choose to delay reporting it and continue fishing.

Elephant Boy

6.5

1937

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This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kiplings Toomai, of the Elephants, in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.